Hargitay Lands 3 Emmy Nods for 'My Mom Jayne,' To Host
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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.
- Mariska Hargitay will host the Primetime Emmy Awards on NBC on Monday, Sept. 14, and is set to begin the 28th season of Law & Order: SVU.
- The documentary reveals that Hargitay's biological father was Nelson Sardelli, a Brazilian singer Mansfield became involved with during a separation from Mickey Hargitay — the man who raised her — and she connected with Sardelli and half-sisters she never knew existed.
- Hargitay was three years old when Mansfield was killed in a 1967 auto accident outside New Orleans; Mariska and her brothers survived in the back seat of the car.
- Hargitay made her Broadway debut in Every Brilliant Thing this year — 40 years after her mother did the same at age 22 — and held Mansfield's "Broadway's Rising Star 1955" plaque before each performance.
- The documentary Emmy categories are presented at the Creative Arts Emmys on Sept. 5 and 6, so Hargitay will not be reading out winners in her own categories during the main ceremony she hosts.
- Hargitay says the film has sparked viewers to investigate their own family secrets, calling it "a story about generational trauma, and identity and recovery and reclamation and forgiveness."
Why it matters: Hargitay's directorial debut earned three Emmy nominations while she also takes on hosting duties — an unusual double role driven by a single, intensely personal project. She says the film has already sparked viewers to investigate their own family secrets, turning a decades-old private discovery (that Mickey Hargitay wasn't her biological father) into a widely resonant story about generational trauma.
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