Mariska Hargitay is tearing himself away during the premiere of Cannes of ‘My Mom Jayne’
Mariska Hargitay fought tears while rushing into a four -minute standing ovation during the first of the “My Mom Jayne” Documentary HBO on her mother, Jayne Mansfield.
The film is Hargitay’s first feature film and marks the first time that it publicly plunges into the history and heritage of Mansfield, almost sixty years after his death. It is also the first time that Hargitay has shared the truth about his parentage. His biological father is an Italian singer named Nelson Sardelli, not Mickey Hargitay, the Hungarian bodybuilder who was his mother’s second.
Mansfield died in a car accident when Hargitay, who was a passenger in the vehicle with his brothers, was three years old. It was raised by Mickey Hargitay.
“Tonight, I celebrate the power that the film has for me to remember someone that I did not have the chance to know or grow,” said emotional hargitay during the introduction of the film.
Mansfield was a Hollywood pin-up that became famous in the 1950s Hollywood, appearing in tastes of “Will Success Sput Rock Hunter?”, “The girl can’t help”, “The Wayward Bus” and “The Loves of Hercules”. Sometimes his status as a sex symbol overshadowed her intellect and talent. After the cooling of his film career, Mansfield reinvented himself as a nightclub interpret.
Hargitay is the winning star of an Emmy from “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” from NBC “. She played the role of Olivia Benson for more than 550 episodes of “Law & Order” and became a defender of real life for survivors of sexual assault, rape and domestic violence.
