facts & trivia
Birthdate: January 23rd 1964
Birthplace: Santa Monica, California, USA
Parents: Mickey Hargitay & Jayne Mansfield
Spouse: Peter Hermann
Children: August Miklos Friedrich Hermann
♥ Mariska replaces Gabrielle Fitzpatrick in
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie (1995) as Dulcea, but her scenes were re-shot with Fitzpatrick returning as Dulcea.
♥ Mariska speaks French, Hungarian, Spanish and Italian as well as English!
♥ She won the
Miss Beverly Hills Pageant in 1983, and came fourth runner up in the
Miss California Pageant.
♥ She learnt to swim at the age of two and later swam for her high school.
♥ Mariska is the co-founder and president of
The Joyful Heart Foundation - a non-profit organisation that supports victims of rape.
♥ Other organisations Mariska has worked with include the Mount Sinai Sexual Assault & Violence Intervention program, NBC's 'The More You Know' campaign,
Safe Horizon, Santa Monica Rape Crisis Treatment Center, Project ALS, Girl Scouts of the USA, and the James Redford Institute for Transplant Awareness.
♥ Mariska is the first woman ever from the
Law & Order franchise to receive award wins and nominations.
♥ In 2005 and 2006, Mariska was voted one of People Magazine's
100 Most Beautiful People.
♥ Mariska was born at
St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California.
♥ Mariska attended
Marymount High School, and the
UCLA School of Thearer, Film & Television from where she graduated with a major in theatre in 1987.
♥ Mariska's own clothing line, XOM, was launched on her official website in October 2007.
♥ In the 2008 edition of the
Guinness Book of World Records, Mariska is named as the highest paid TV actress working today.
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