Jayne Mansfield was a Hollywood icon. The bombshell — and mother of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit star Mariska Hargitay — rose to fame in the 1950s as an actress and a model. Mansfield was known ...

Mariska Hargitay revisited the life and legacy of her mom Jayne Mansfield with her directorial debut, My Mom Jayne, which premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. “The fact that I get to take her ...

Mariska Hargitay experienced a scary incident nearly three decades ago and opened up about how it parallels her mother Jayne Mansfield’s death. “I was involved in a serious motorcycle accident when I ...

Mariska Hargitay reflected on her mother Jayne Mansfield’s death while attending the Hope for Depression Research Foundation’s 18th Annual HOPE Luncheon Seminar. “I lost my mother when I was 3 years ...

Captain Olivia Benson is ready to solve a new case— the death of her mother, Jayne Mansfield. Mariska Hargitay announced on Tuesday, April 8, that she has been working on a documentary, My Mom Jayne, ...

Mariska Hargitay opened up about the impact of losing her mother, Jayne Mansfield, at a young age. "I lost my mother when I was 3 years old, and I grew up in a house of people dealing with the tragedy ...

Credits: Directed by Mariska Hargitay, featuring Mariska Hargitay, Mickey Hargitay Jr., Zoltan Hargitay, Jayne Marie Mansfield, Nelson Sardelli, Jayne Mansfield (archival footage), Mickey Hargitay ...

When Mariska Hargitay was 3, she and two of her brothers survived the car accident that killed their mother, bombshell movie star Jayne Mansfield. The kids were asleep in the back seat; the three ...

Jayne Mansfield was born Vera Jane Palmer in 1933 in Bryn Mawr, Penn., and at age 3, after the death of her father, moved to ...

Mariska Hargitay arrives for the Debra Messing Hollywood Walk of Fame Star Ceremony on Oct. 6, 2017, in Hollywood, Calif. DFree / Shutterstock.com Mariska Hargitay is making her feature film ...