The actress says her biological dad is Italian singer Nelson Sardelli, not Mickey Hargitay — something she discovered when she was in her 20s.

Mariska Hargitay made headlines when she revealed that her biological father was not Mickey Hargitay — but was, instead, Nelson Sardelli. Mariska was born in 1964 to late actress Jayne Mansfield, who died in a June 1967 car crash.

Mariska Hargitay walked the Cannes Film Festival red carpet alongside her husband Peter Hermann on Tuesday night, looking so in love as they attended the premiere of Vie Privée (A Private Life). See details.

We didn’t have the tools that we have now to metabolize and understand trauma.” Mariska’s father Miklós Károly “Mickey” Hargitay was a Hungarian-American actor and bodybuilder. Born in Budapest, he moved to the U.S. in 1947 and eventually ...