Mariska Hargitay
Birthday: 1964-01-23
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Biography: Mariska Hargitay (born January 23, 1964) is an American actress, producer, director and activist, best known for her role as New York City sex crimes Detective Olivia Benson on on the NBC television drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a role that has earned her multiple awards and nominations, including an Emmy and Golden Globe. The daughter of actress Jayne Mansfield and actor/bodybuilder Mickey Hargitay, Hargitay is a former beauty queen who made her film debut in the 1985 horror-comedy film Ghoulies, and her major television debut in the 1986 adventure drama series, Downtown. She appeared in numerous roles in film and television shows throughout the late 1980s and 1990s before being cast as Olivia Benson, a role that led to her founding the Joyful Heart Foundation, which provides support to women who have been sexually abused.
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Leaving Las Vegas
Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arri...
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BLKBX: wht r u hding?
Grace Gaustad presents the short documentary film 'BLKBX: wht r u hding?' — a powerful musical antho...
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Lake Placid
When a man is eaten alive by an unknown creature, the local Game Warden teams up with a paleontologi...
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The Perfect Weapon
Jeff, a young delinquent, is enrolled by his father in a kenpo school, in the hopes of teaching the ...
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Blind Side
A couple visits Mexico to scout a new location for their furniture manufacturing business, and hit a...
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Perfume
A week in the lives of a group of models, photographers, agents, reporters, publicists and other cha...
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Ghoulies
A young man and his girlfriend move into the man's old mansion home, where he becomes possessed by a...
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Mr. Universe
Two Hungarian documentary makers, having heard nothing about their countryman Mickey Hargitay for al...
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Jocks
When an odd-ball tennis team of a Los Angeles college sets out on a road trip to a regional college ...
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The Gambler: Playing for Keeps
Brady Hawkes has to run to his son's rescue once again in this continuation of the Gambler stories. ...
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Plain Truth
An unmarried 18 year-old Amish girl is charged with the murder of her infant child....
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Hard Time Romance
A good-hearted, second-rate rodeo cowboy fights his way through numerous obstacles, including a Mexi...
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Welcome to 18
Three young women looking for adventure get jobs on a dude ranch. The film follows the adventures o...
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Stuck
The documentary “Stuck” follows Americans' quest to adopt orphans from Ethiopia, Haiti and Vietnam....
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Night Sins
A female FBI investigator takes over jurisdiction in Dear Lake, a small northern town just as a youn...
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Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called
A portrait of the actress Winona Ryder, the great muse of nineties cinema, who, although she has had...
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The Advocate's Devil
A charismatic basketball star (Holt McCallany) is accused of rape. A lawyer (Ken Olin) in need of a ...
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The Love Guru
Born in America and raised in an Indian ashram, Pitka returns to his native land to seek his fortune...
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Finish Line
In order to get better results, a young athlete starts using steroids and begins his downfall....
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Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour - Live
Filmed in front of 76,000 fans at the ANZ Stadium in Sydney, Australia, "The 1989 World Tour Live" c...
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Bank Robber
After robbing a bank, the robber hides out from the police in a seedy hotel where he is forced to br...
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I Am Evidence
The modern criminal justice system is hindered by the fact that countless rape kits remain untested ...
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Strawberry Road
Hisa Ishii and his brother Akira emigrate from Japan to the United States. They settle in rural Cali...
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30 Rock: A One-Time Special
In a one-time special event featuring all the beloved characters from the original series, Liz Lemon...
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The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU
Go back to the beginning of television's longest-running primetime drama with behind-the-scenes foot...
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Come the Morning
In search of her estranged husband, a mother brings her 3 children to Los Angeles in the hope of fin...
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My Mom Jayne
Through deeply personal interviews with her siblings and an examination of the photographs, letters,...
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