Mariska Hargitay credits an acting career to a nun who really saw her

‘Law & Order: SVU’ star Mariska Hargitay credits acting career to nun ‘who really saw me’ ‘I’m a nun,’ she said. ‘L.A.S. SVU" star Hargitsay recently shared the impact a nun had on her decision to go into acting as she celebrates a milestone year.

Mariska Hargitay recalls being raped in her 30s in powerful essay about overcoming trauma. She wrote that she won't let the experience ‘define’ her life. The actress revealed in a moving essay that decades ago, she was raped. She said she won’t let the rape “define” her life, but that she will not let it define her.

‘Law & Order: SVU’ star Mariska Hargitay was raped by a friend in her 30s. She hopes to change the way people talk about victims of sexual assault. ‘Trauma fractures our mind’, she says.

'Law & Order: SVU' released its 25th season on Thursday. Mariska Hargitay says she is ready for Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson to make their on-screen romance official. She says it's hard to process the show's 25th anniversary.