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Mariska Hargitay On The Impact Of Starring In ‘Law & Order: SVU’: “I Was Definitely A Victim Of Secondary Trauma”


Mariska Hargitay has been the star of Law & Order: SVU since its premiere in 1999, and playing Olivia Benson has had a significant impact on her.

Mariska Hargitay has been the star of Law & Order: SVU since its premiere in 1999, and playing Olivia Benson has had a significant impact on her. The actress has starred in the procedural drama, which has more than 550 episodes, and knowing about all the cases covered on the show has affected Hargitay personally. Hargitay also told Gomez that starring in SVU has given her knowledge “about sexual assault, domestic violence, child abuse, than I ever had thought about.”

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