He has become closer to star Mariska Hargitay and her family and positively commenting on her performances as Detective Olivia Benson.

In order for Rita to endorse the lipstick, however, Rock has to pretend to be her boyfriend to make her real boyfriend, Bobo Branigansky ( Mickey Hargitay ), the star of a TV Tarzan show, jealous.

He has a brief relationship with a needy desk clerk, Cynthia Hooper ( played by Mariska Hargitay in season 4 ).

He is married to actress Mariska Hargitay, with whom he has three children.

Heints is attacked and knocked unconscious in the early scenes of the episode, and in the course of the investigation, Detectives Olivia Benson ( Mariska Hargitay ) and Elliot Stabler ( Christopher Meloni ) discover Heints has been accused of having a romantic relationship with one of her patients.

Tutuola initially has a rocky relationship with his colleagues in SVU, especially with Munch and Olivia Benson ( Mariska Hargitay ).

Hargitay has characterized Benson and Stabler's relationship as " very complicated ".

Hargitay has deemed the storyline which saw Benson find her paternal family: " probably the biggest thing that's ever happened to Olivia.

Hargitay has won a number of awards for her role as Benson: ' Individual Achievement for Best Female Lead ' and ' Outstanding Female Lead ' Gracie Awards in 2004 and 2009 respectively, an Emmy for ' Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series ' in 2006, a Prism Award for ' Performance in a Drama Series Episode ' in 2006, and a Golden Globe for ' Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series ' in 2005.

The San Francisco Chronicle < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s John Carman has called Hargitay " the show's weakest performer " when the series originally premiered in 1999.

Mickey Hargitay pounds The king of paparazzi Rino Barillari while Vatussa Vitta smaks him with her purse-Via Veneto 1963

20th Century Fox didn't want Hargitay in Rock Hunter, because they hated that Mansfield saw Hargitay as her " only " lover.

This guest spot reunited Kingston with her former cast mate from ER, Mariska Hargitay.

In " Stalked ," a first season episode, Cragen participates in a sting operation in which one of his detectives, Olivia Benson ( Mariska Hargitay ), serves as bait for a suspected rapist who had been stalking her.

* Mariska Hargitay in " The Pilot " ( not his girlfriend ) She simply came in to read for the pilot and Jerry flirted with her.

" On her personal Twitter page, actress Diane Neal acknowledged the sexual tension between her character ( ADA Casey Novak ) and Detective Benson, after speaking about her real friendship with actress Mariska Hargitay.

Of her Emmy win, Hargitay commented: " It makes me only want to be better.

She co-starred with Christopher Meloni and Mariska Hargitay for the first season before leaving the series in 2000, but she did appear in the first, seventh and sixteenth episodes of season two, her final appearance being in March 2001.

Mariska Hargitay ( Olivia Benson | Detective Olivia Benson ) and Harry Connick, Jr. ( David Haden | Executive Assistant District Attorney David Haden ) in the Law & Order: SVU episode, " Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ( season 13 )# ep12 | Official Story ".

* in the 2005 Law & Order: SVU episode " Identity ," teenage twins Logan and Lindsay Stanton ( Reiley McClendon ) speak to each other in twin language while both are being interrogated in a murder investigation by Detectives Stabler and Benson ( Christopher Meloni and Mariska Hargitay, respectively ).

Comedians and friends on the dais included Roastmaster Paul Shaffer ; Christopher Walken ; Danny Aiello ; Barry Levinson ; Robert Klein ; Bill Maher ; SVU costars Mariska Hargitay, Christopher Meloni, Ice-T, and Dann Florek ; and Law & Orders Jerry Orbach.

** Mariska Hargitay for playing Detective Olivia Benson on Law & Order: SVU

Hargitay had a recurring role during the fourth season of ER.

In the episode " Control ", Hargitay played a man on a subway station escalator who witnesses the aftermath of a brutal assault.

She also played a manipulative woman in a season-4 episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit opposite Christopher Meloni and Mariska Hargitay and appeared in Watching Ellie.

But when Jayne told the studio that she would turn the film down, they gave in and allowed Hargitay to appear in a bit part.

On January 6, 2012, NBC president Robert Greenblatt announced at the Television Critics Association winter press tour that Harry Connick, Jr. had been cast in a four-episode arc of NBC's long-running legal drama, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as new Executive ADA, David Haden, a dedicated, straight-shooting prosecutor who is assigned a case with Detective Benson ( Mariska Hargitay ).

His partner during the first twelve years is Detective Olivia Benson ( Mariska Hargitay ).

Stabler is assigned a temporary partner named Dani Beck ( Connie Nielsen ) while Benson is on loan to the FBI in Season 8 ( Mariska Hargitay was pregnant and on maternity leave ).

When a suspect in a hotel maid's rape, who is set to be Italy's next prime minister ( Franco Nero ), Tutuola angrily tells him that his grandmother was a maid ; shortly before he and Detective Olivia Benson ( Mariska Hargitay ) flaunt the man in front of the media, against Cragen's request ..

Olivia " Liv " Benson is a fictional character on the NBC police procedural drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, portrayed by Mariska Hargitay.

is a 1957 American satiric comedy film starring Jayne Mansfield and Tony Randall, with Betsy Drake, Joan Blondell, John Williams, Henry Jones, Lili Gentle, Mickey Hargitay, and a cameo by Groucho Marx.

" This is a home run on so many levels ," said Hargitay.

TV Guide's Bruce Fretts had to say, " The crooner's Broadway show On a Clear Day may be closing soon, but he's making beautiful music with Mariska Hargitay as the new executive ADA.

According to Hargitay, who trained as a rape crisis advocate to prepare for that role, " Testing rape kits puts perpetrators on notice that they won't get away with their crimes.

Mansfield's autobiographical book, Jayne Mansfield's Wild, Wild World — which she co-wrote with Mickey Hargitay — was published directly after the release of the film.

The actors who played Hercules in these films were Steve Reeves, Gordon Scott, Kirk Morris, Mickey Hargitay, Mark Forest, Alan Steel, Dan Vadis, Brad Harris, Reg Park, Peter Lupus ( billed as Rock Stevens ) and Michael Lane.

One of the roommates was played by Diedrich Bader, who went on to success in The Drew Carey Show ; also, actress Mariska Hargitay appeared as a sassy bartender.

The actors who played Hercules in these films were Steve Reeves, Gordon Scott, Kirk Morris, Mickey Hargitay, Mark Forest, Alan Steel, Dan Vadis, Brad Harris, Reg Park, Peter Lupus ( billed as Rock Stevens ) and Michael Lane.

As the son of the director, Matt Cimber, Tony Cimber ( the youngest child of the 1960s American sex symbol Jayne Mansfield and a half-brother of actress Mariska Hargitay ), started on the show playing a character called " Nature Boy " and was led around the ring on a leash by a female wrestler named, " Jungle Woman ".

* 1926 – Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian-born American actor and bodybuilder ( d. 2006 )

** Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian actor and bodybuilder ( d. 2006 )

Jayne Mansfield met and later married one of West's muscle men, a former Mr. Universe, Mickey Hargitay.

Notable guest stars during the run of the show include Oprah Winfrey, Jack Black, David Cross, Ming-Na, Vicki Lawrence, Quentin Tarantino, Tsai Chin, Mariska Hargitay, Billy Burke, Robert Clohessy and Garrett Wang.

* The Loves of Hercules ( Gli Amori di Ercole / The Loves of Hercules, 1960 ) a. k. a. Hercules vs the Hydra, co-starring Mickey Hargitay & Jayne Mansfield

Miklós " Mickey " Hargitay ( January 6, 1926 – September 14, 2006 ) was an actor and Mr. Universe 1955.

Born in Budapest, Hungary, he was married to Jayne Mansfield, and the father of actress Mariska Hargitay.

An underground fighter during World War II, Hargitay fled Hungary after the war and moved to the United States.