Mariska Hargitay was 3 years old when her mother, actress Jayne Mansfield, was killed in a car accident in 1967. The mother of five, who was compared to Marilyn Monroe, was 34.

Mariska Hargitay says that in her 20s, she discovered that the man who raised her was not her biological father — but she has no regrets: 'I grew up where I was supposed to.'

It was like the floor fell out from underneath me,' Hargitay says in the new film, her feature directorial debut.