Mariska Hargitay was 3 years old when her mother, actress Jayne Mansfield, was killed in a car accident in 1967. The mother of five, who was compared to Marilyn Monroe, was 34.

Mariska Hargitay revealed in a new documentary that her biological father is not Mickey Hargitay, the man who raised her, but rather singer Nelson Sardelli.

It was like the floor fell out from underneath me,' Hargitay says in the new film, her feature directorial debut.