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

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 ...