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 ).

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.

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

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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.

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.

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

* Jayne Mansfield – actress and model, mother of actress Mariska Hargitay

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

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

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The pilot, that also featured Melissa Joan Hart, Matt Letscher and Mariska Hargitay was not ordered into a series.

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.

Starring Deborah Unger, Griffin Dunne, Chelsea Field, and Mariska Hargitay.

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

While appearing on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Hermann met lead actress, Mariska Hargitay, whom he married on August 28, 2004, in Santa Barbara, California.

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" Joyful Heart President and founder Mariska Hargitay, who stars as a sex crimes detective on the TV series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, founded the organization in 2004.

She filled in for Mariska Hargitay who was on maternity leave at the time of filming.

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* 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 ).

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 ).

" 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.

* 2006 – Mariska Veres, Dutch singer ( Shocking Blue ) ( b. 1947 )

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

After Mariska Veres took over the vocals, the group charted a world-wide hit with the song " Venus ", which reached # 1 on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 in February 1970.

In 1974 Mariska Veres left the group to start a solo career until 1982.

* April 18-Contralto Mariska Horvath marries politician J. Frank Aldrich.

To counter negative publicity, Mariska Majoor, founder of the Prostitution Information Center, organized two " open days " in February 2006 and March 2007, allowing visitors access to some window brothels and peep shows and informing them about the working conditions there.

Mariska Majoor of the Prostitution Information Center and representatives of the sex worker rights group De Rode Draad have decried the decision, claiming it would not reduce crime but would only lead to higher rent and more competition for the remaining windows.

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.

2004: Mariska Hargitay-Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Det.

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