'Law & Order: SVU' Star Ice-T Celebrates Mariska Hargitay's Birthday and the Love Pours In
Saturday marked an extraordinary day for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit fans and Ice-T made [...]
Today is @Mariska ‘s Birthday! We’ve worked side by side for over 20yrs. I love her to death. Everyone show her some love.. 🎈🎂 pic.twitter.com/jIokRX3BZI
— ICE T (@FINALLEVEL) January 23, 2021
Hargitay is the daughter of the late bodybuilder Mickey Hargitay and the late actress, Jayne Mansfield. She started working in movies and television in the mid-1980s, but Benson has remained her most popular character. She is an executive producer on SVU and has directed several episodes.
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She is the best, I had the pleasure of doing an episode on season 20 and both you and Mariska were the greatest, what a great group of people on your show 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
— Sebastian Roché (@sebroche) January 23, 2021
Even when she is offscreen, Hargitay continues her fight to help sexual assault survivors. In 2004, she established the Joyful Heart Foundation and she co-produced the documentary I Am Evidence, which focused on what happens to untested rape kits.
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Happy birthday! Thank you for all your groundbreaking work on legislation to help rape victims and sexual assault care takers.
— Patricia Arquette (@PattyArquette) January 23, 2021
"SVU resonates because it's a path to healing and a path to survivorship," Hargitay told Parade in 2019. "Each week, Olivia Benson and the team depict an environment of compassion, sympathy and justice, providing hope to those who experience shame and isolation caused by sexual violence."
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Happy Birthday to the one and only!!! @Mariska 🎂🤩🎉 pic.twitter.com/YW0MFrDiTs
— sandydavidson (@PinkTaz08) January 23, 2021
She continued: "The conversations that the show inspires have brought greater awareness and understanding of the issues. And every disclosure is a chance to show that a victim is to be believed."
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No one - like literally NO ONE - has more effectively used their work in the arts to educate, to advocate and to change the world for the better than @Mariska.
— Julie Cohen (@FilmmakerJulie) January 24, 2021
Happy Birthday and Thank you for all you've done and continue to do. pic.twitter.com/Z6FdrcsRI8
"Happy birthday Mariska. We love the show and have watched from the beginning. Seen most episodes more than three times and still we are watching," wrote John Challis.
Actor Chad Lindberg also wrote, "Happy Birthday [Marsika]!! You were such a class act when I guest starred your show several years ago!!! Much love!!!"
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It's @Mariska 's birthday and I'm a huge fan and also she is the absolute SWEETEST and was definitely my favorite person to visit us at #SchoolofRock . 🤟🤟🤟 pic.twitter.com/pnosYvEJC1
— Mamie Parris (@MamieParris) January 24, 2021
Fans can see Benson's next efforts to help victims on Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET on NBC in new SVU episodes.
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