Growing up, she attended Marymount High School and was a cheerleader, an athletics, and a theatre student. After graduation, Hargitay enrolled at UCLA, where she was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma.<\/p>\n
Moreover, Mariska is married to Peter Hermann since 2004. The couple shares three children. August Miklos Friedrich Hermann is their biological son, and they have also adopted a girl, Amaya Josephine<\/a>, and a boy, Andrew Nicolas Hargitay Hermann.<\/p>\n While attending college, Mariska was crowned Miss Beverly Hills USA, and later she competed in the Miss California USA and was able to be one of the finalists. Surprisingly, Mariska never thought about doing television until she got the offer for a role in the one-hour drama series Downtown.<\/p>\n Mariska Hargitay Showing Off Her Influential Smile<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n Eventually, she did several minor roles on televisions such as Seinfeld, Ellen, All-American Girl, Baywatch, In the Heat of the Night, thirtysomething, and more.<\/p>\n After that, Hargitay switched her career towards the big screens and had a minor role in the 1995 film ‘Leaving Las Vegas.’<\/p>\n Mariska’s breakthrough role was for NBC police procedural television series ‘Law & Order: Special Victims Unit’ in 1999. At first, the show’ creator, Dick Wolf, thought she wasn’t fit for the role, but later it all worked out for all parties.<\/p>\n Surprisingly, she’s been in Law And Order for over two decades, and still, she’s the face of the show. Not only that, but she now works as a director and producer for Law & Order: SVU since 2014.<\/p>\n The SVU actress’s net worth is a lot higher compared to other TV stars as she is the second highest-earning actress on the television, according to Forbes.<\/p>\n She earns around $450,000<\/strong> per episode of the show, per season. The show ran for approximately 23 episodes, so mathematically, she made around $10.3 million<\/strong> this season.<\/p>\n Back in 2012, Mariska approximately made somewhere around $400,000<\/strong> to $500,000<\/strong> per episode. Reportedly, in 2009, she earned between $375,000-$385,000<\/strong> per episode.<\/p>\n As of 2019, Mariska Hargitay has an estimated net worth of around $45 million<\/strong>. Forbes also reported that she makes extra money from the various licensing agreements.<\/p>\n Besides, Hargitay makes a decent amount of net worth from the endorsements and sometimes appears in TV commercials as well. In January 2007, she and her son appeared in an advertisement, ‘Got Milk?’<\/p>\n Hargitay is involved in charitable works. The SVU actress is the founder and president of the Joyful Heart Foundation that established in 2004. The leading organization’s purpose is to support survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and child abuse. According to her word, the foundation raised $20 million and helped approximately 5,000 survivors in April 2011. Among her high profiled admirers’ singer, Taylor Swift was the one who came out and made a considerable donation<\/a> that flooded the web in 2017.<\/p>\n Taylor Swift Called out Mariska Hargitay on stage in one of her performance to make a huge donation<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n That same year, Hargitay donated $100,000<\/strong> to her alma mater the UCLA School of Theater Film and Television for the scholarship. In mid-February 2012, this actress donated $35,800<\/strong> to the Obama Victory Fund.<\/p>\nCareer Info: Televisions, Movie-Highlights<\/h2>\n
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