Sexiest Pictures Of Mariska Hargitay. Fans of Law & Order have been worrying about Mariska Hargitay getting “canceled” due to her role as a “good cop” that perpetrates the notion that all cops are heroic and trustworthy. The series of police inflicted crime on minorities,
particularly people of African-American descent have caused cops to have a negative reputation with the masses, even more so since the murder of George Floyd. Hargitay was born on January 23, 1964 at St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica, California. Raised in a Catholic household, her name refers to Mary Magdalene.
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She speaks English, French, Hungarian, Italian and Spanish. She lost her mother to a car accident at a very young age. Hargitay went to Marymount High School where she indulged in cheerleading, student government, athletics and theatre.
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Discovering a passion for acting, she enrolled in UCLA School of Theatre Film and Television after high school and was a member of her sorority Kappa Kappa Gamma. However, she dropped out before completing her degree and then attended Groundlings Theatre and School in Los Angeles.
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After the high school, Mariska Hargitay was awarded as Miss Beverley Hills, USA and had a few acting gigs to her name by freshman year. She revealed in an interview that she would’ve never thought about working as a television actor until she was offered a role in adventure drama series Downtown.
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Later, she went on to secure a recurring role in the soap opera Falcon Crest (1988) where she played the role of Carly Fixx. She also worked in Tequila and Boneti, Can’t Hurry Love, Prince Street and in the fourth season of ER. She has appeared in numerous other television shows such as Ellen, Baywatch and Seinfeld.
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Her voice was featured in the 2005 video game True Crime: New York City. Her works helped her land the most coveted and popular role of her career as Detective Olivia Benson in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) for which she has won respected awards such as the Emmy and the Golden Globe.