‘Law & Order: Special Victims Unit’ star Mariska Hargitay revealed in her new documentary ‘My Mom Jayne’ the truth about the identity of her biological father.
The film, which premiered Thursday, May 17, at the Cannes Festival, reveals that Mariska Hargitay’s biological father is the Italian singer Nelson Sardelli, according to Vanity Fair. The man who raised the ‘Law & Order’ star is Mickey Hargitay.
In an interview with the magazine, she joked that she had become like her crime series character Olivia Benson.
Jayne Mansfield, Mariska’s mother, had a relationship with Sardelli in 1963 during her divorce from Mickey Hargitay. However, Jayne and Mickey reunited late in 1963, and Mariska was born in January 1964.
Mariska Hargitay told Vanity Fair that she attended one of Sardelli’s shows in Atlantic City and introduced herself to him. “I don’t want anything, I have a father,” she recalled.
In the new documentary, the ‘Law & Order’ actress shares more about her mother’s story, who died in a car accident in 1967 when Mariska was only 3 years old.
She described the film as “a search for the mother I never knew, an integration of a part of myself I had never before acknowledged, and a reclaiming of my mother’s story and my own truth.”
“I have always believed there is strength in vulnerability, and making this film confirmed that more than ever,” Mariska Hargitay said.
She also paid tribute to Mickey Hargitay, who died in 2006. ‘My Mom Jayne’ premieres June 27 on HBO and is available on the streaming platform HBO Max.
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