Mariska Hargitay‘s long-running profession as Olivia Benson on Regulation & Order: Particular Victims Unit was written within the stars.
The actress opened up in regards to the early days of her profession on the Wednesday, June 25, episode of Alex Cooper‘s “Name Her Daddy” podcast, revealing she took a good friend’s suggestion to go to a Lengthy Island psychic throughout a go to to New York Metropolis when she was 34.
“I drive out to this man’s home on Lengthy Island, and he offers me a psychic studying. And since my mother was well-known, I at all times was like, ‘You might be simply most likely going to Google me and, , [learn I’m] Jayne Mansfield‘s daughter after which give you some bulls***,” she recalled. “So, I sit down with this man, and we’re speaking, we’re speaking, we’re speaking. He says some issues. After which he says to me, and I used to be listening to him, and I’m like this [straight-faced].”
Her unimpressed response to the studying caught the psychic’s consideration. “He says, ‘You see that face proper now?’ I stated, ‘Yeah.’ He goes, ‘You’re going to be well-known for that face. That face. That critical face,’” she shared. “And I stated, ‘No. I’m humorous, and I’m fairly. Lethal mixture. I’m going to be a comic.’”
The psychic adopted up with one thing Hargitay stated was her “favourite factor I believe anybody’s ever stated me,’” stating, “He goes like this, ‘I don’t give a rat’s a** what you assume. You’re going to be well-known for that face.’ After which he says to me, ‘And also you’re shifting to New York.’”
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His prediction got here to fruition for Hargitay, as she was 35 years previous when she started her tenure on Regulation & Order: SVU. She has performed the robust but form NYPD Captain Benson ever because the present’s premiere in 1999, changing into the longest-running feminine character on a primetime TV present and incomes eight Emmy nominations and one win for her portrayal of the character.
The upcoming twenty seventh season of the NBC present will mark the return of Kelli Giddish‘s Sergeant Amanda Rollins as a sequence common. “It’s so purely joyful to me. She is a formidable actress and an extremely artistic accomplice and has been such a pleasure and big a part of the material of SVU,” Hargitay gushed of Giddish in an interview with Deadline final month. “I like her, and I like performing together with her and co-creating together with her, and it looks like house together with her, So, I’m ecstatic about her return.”
Regulation & Order: Particular Victims Unit, Season 27 Premiere, Fall 2025, Thursdays, 9/8c, NBC