SVU actor was 3 years old in 1967 when her movie star mom, Jayne Mansfield, died in a car crash. Hargitay's new ...

Mariska Hargitay remembers it like it was yesterday. She was 30, and she saw that Italian entertainer Nelson Sardelli — the ...

Jayne Mansfield’s press agent — first revealed in his 1974 biography, The Tragic Secret Life of Jayne Mansfield, that Mariska ...

Hargitay’s Benson — who helps fictionalized victims reckon with their abusers weekly — helped her prepare for the emotional ...

Mariska Hargitay is sharing details of a special moment she shared with her biological father, Nelson Sardelli. According to ...

Mariska Hargitay revealed that she spent Father's Day with her biological dad, Nelson Sardelli, and that he apologized to her ...

Hargitay was 25 years old when she found out the former Las Vegas entertainer was her biological father — not Mickey Hargitay ...

This past Father’s Day was one of deep emotional resonance for actress and filmmaker Mariska Hargitay, as the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit star opened up about spending the holiday with her ...

But in her 20s, Mariska became aware, independently, that her biological father was an Italian nightclub entertainer named Nelson Sardelli. She was angry, she says, at her dead mother "for leaving ...

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit season 27 is just around the corner, and star Mariska Hargitay will get to work with her friend and fellow actress Kelli Giddish again. Giddish first appeared as ...