An Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning actress, Hargitay makes her feature film directorial debut with the documentary, telling an acutely personal story through an investigator’s truth-seeking lens and a motherless child’s longing to know the mother she does not remember.

A one-of-a-kind gift once owned by her late mother left Mariska Hargitay speechless and emotional after it was presented to the television star by her older brother

I t might be argued that Hollywood sex symbol Jayne Mansfield is more famous now for being the mother of Mariska Hargitay than for her own status as a prototypical ’50s bombshel