Hamptons Magazine

Mariska Hargitay sits down with George Stephanopoulos and Hamptons Magazine to discuss how her role on the hit NBC series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit has influenced her life over the past 14 years.

Guests including Debra Messing and Kyle MacLachlan showed their support for the Joyful Heart Foundation at the exclusive Theodora & Callum shopping event at the East Hampton boutique. Joyful Heart founder Mariska Hargitay collaborated with Desiree Gruber, Carrie Shumway, and Heather Mnuchin to highlight the organization’s life-changing work.

Hargitay is one cliché worth talking about. In the midst of 12- to 15-hour days of physically grueling shoots for Law & Order: SVU, Mariska finds time to be a hands-on parent to her four-year-old son, August; push the envelope to grow the Joyful Heart Foundation, her charity for survivors of sexual and domestic abuse—and chat with a reporter to explain how she has time to do it all.