Mariska Hargitay started in her role as Detective Olivia Benson on
Law & Order: SVU in 1999, but it was two years later that she met the man of her dreams. Peter Hermann had a recurring role on the show and Hargitay tried to befriend him by making a joke. “He didn’t think I was funny,” she told
InStyle. A later discussion about religion led to Hermann suggesting they attend church together. When they did – their first official date – Hargitay ...
more Mariska Hargitay started in her role as Detective Olivia Benson on
Law & Order: SVU in 1999, but it was two years later that she met the man of her dreams. Peter Hermann had a recurring role on the show and Hargitay tried to befriend him by making a joke. “He didn’t think I was funny,” she told
InStyle. A later discussion about religion led to Hermann suggesting they attend church together. When they did – their first official date – Hargitay said that was it. “I just about passed out when I saw him there,” the actress, who married Hermann in 2004, told the magazine. “I thought:
That’s my husband.”
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