Before She Hosts Primetime Emmy Awards, Mariska Hargitay Goes For Gold With Triple Nominee ‘My Mom Jayne’
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- My Mom Jayne earned three Primetime Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special and Outstanding Directing for a Nonfiction Program
- The HBO documentary reveals that Mickey Hargitay was not Mariska's biological father; her actual father is Brazilian singer Nelson Sardelli, whom she connected with during filming
- Mariska Hargitay describes the film as a love letter to all three parents — Mansfield, Mickey Hargitay, and Sardelli — and a story about 'generational trauma, identity, recovery, reclamation and forgiveness' that prompted viewers to investigate their own family secrets
- Hargitay made her Broadway debut in Every Brilliant Thing at age 62, 40 years after Mansfield debuted at 22, and held her mother's 1955 'Broadway's Rising Star' plaque backstage each night
- Hargitay completed her 27th season as Capt. Olivia Benson on Law & Order: SVU and is returning for the 28th
- Hargitay will host the Primetime Emmy Awards on NBC on Monday, Sept. 14, though she won't present winners in the documentary categories (those are handed out at the Creative Arts Emmys on Sept. 5 and 6)
Why it matters: The three nominations validate Hargitay's move from a 27-season acting tenure on Law & Order: SVU into documentary filmmaking, while her Sept. 14 hosting slot places both her and Mansfield's legacy before the industry's largest primetime audience of the year.
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