The actress says her biological dad is Italian singer Nelson Sardelli, not Mickey Hargitay — something she discovered when she was in her 20s.

Mariska and her older brothers Zoltan and Mickey Jr ... contains startling revelations about the identity of Hargitay's biological father – details the actress-director has never shared before. We won't spoil those here. Later in the summer, Hargitay ...

We didn’t have the tools that we have now to metabolize and understand trauma.” Mariska’s father Miklós Károly “Mickey” Hargitay was a Hungarian-American actor and bodybuilder. Born in Budapest, he moved to the U.S. in 1947 and eventually ...