Mariska Hargitay has been playing the role of Olivia Benson on Law and Order: Special Victims Unit since 1999, and the ...

The actress said she knew from “minute one” that she and Meloni would be “very important people in each other’s lives" Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working ...

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Mariska Hargitay and Christopher Meloni met on the set of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in 1999 — and decades later their ...

While Mariska Hargitay has carried television’s historic prime-time drama “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” on her back for 26 years, she couldn’t have done it without the help of her ...

After nearly 26 years on “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” Mariska Hargitay knows a thing or two about commitment and perseverance — qualities she says she learned from her late father ...

Mariska Hargitay has been playing Olivia Benson on Law & Order: SVU since 1999, from when she was 26 years old. Now 60, the Emmy-winning actress has starred in more than 550 episodes and counting.

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During auditions, Meloni thought, "Who's the chick with all the energy?" he shared in 2009's The Law & Order: SVU Unofficial Companion book. "I just knew that Mariska was going to be The One.