#Tina hargitay movie#
That same year, she appeared in the television movie Plain Truth (2004), in which she played attorney Ellie Harrison. The show also changed her personal life, since she met her husband actor Peter Hermann on the set and married him on August 28, 2004. She became the highest paid actress on television, and she won Emmy and Golden Globe awards for her performance.
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She reaped the rewards from the hit TV show, after struggling and studying her craft for fifteen years. Mariska played Olivia as a tough, compassionate detective, who did action scenes and her own stunt work. The hour-long show deals with sex crimes and the detectives who solve these cases. Olivia Benson in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), the first spin off from the excellent franchise of Law & Order (1990). Her recurring role on the top-rated show ER (1994) in 1998 gave her career enough of a jolt to land her the starring role of Det. She also appeared in the hit film Leaving Las Vegas (1995), credited as 'Hooker at the bar', and in the flop film Lake Placid (1999) as Myra Okubo. She appeared a few times on the nighttime soap Falcon Crest (1981). Mariska continued with her acting classes and waited on tables, while she landed forgettable roles in short-lived television shows. She told casting directors that she was her own person when she held onto her dark locks and athletic figure, when they were expecting another blond, buxom Jayne Mansfield. And she refused to copy her mother's sexy image by turning down nude scenes in her next film Jocks (1986). She rejected advice to change her name and appearance. Unlike her mother Jayne, who had changed her name, her hair color, and did nude pictorials to become a star, Mariska took a very different approach on her journey to become a star. Her first motion picture feature was the cult favorite, Ghoulies (1984), where she gave a memorable performance as Donna. They also financially supported the children, since Jayne Mansfield's debt-ridden estate left no money for them. Her father remarried a stewardess named Ellen, and they raised the three children and gave them a normal childhood. The children escaped with minor injuries. were in the back seat of a car when it was involved in the fatal accident which killed her mother. In June 1967, Mariska and her brothers Zoltan and Mickey Jr. She is the youngest of their three children. Her parents are Mickey Hargitay and Jayne Mansfield. Mariska (Ma-rish-ka) Magdolna Hargitay was born on January 23, 1964, in Santa Monica, California.
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