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Mariska Hargitay’s new documentary, My Mom Jayne, explores the life of her late mother, Hollywood star Jayne Mansfield

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63% Informative

My Mom Jayne premieres May 17 at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival and will air Friday, June 27 on HBO and HBO Max .

Mariska Hargitay grew up mortified by this image of her lost mother: a blonde bimbo, the butt of everyone’s joke.

Mariska Hargitay is the subject of a new documentary, My Mom Jayne.

The actress and co-star played Olivia Benson for 26 years .

She says she had a history of mommy problems growing up.

Her late father, Mickey , was beyond reproach but she says he was her idol.

Hargitay sees a link between the familial silence-breaking of My Mom Jayne and her work with her Joyful Heart Foundation .

She produced I Am Evidence, a documentary about thousands of unprocessed rape kits languishing in America ’s police lockers.

Last year she revealed that she had been raped by a friend.

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61

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60

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50

Article tone

informal

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English

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33

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possibly offensive

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medium-lived

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