Mariska Hargitay will make her feature directorial debut this June with My Mom Jayne, a documentary about her mother/actress Jayne Mansfield.
The Law & Order: SVU star was only three years old when her mother died at 34 in a car accident. The film follows Hargitay as she seeks to know, understand, and embrace her mother for the first time. Through interviews and a collection of never-before-seen photos and home movies, Hargitay navigates her mother’s public and private legacy.
Mansfield, a Golden Globe winner, was an actress and sex symbol in the ’50s and ’60s. She was also a singer and a classically trained pianist and violinist.
“This movie is a labor of love and longing. It’s a search for the mother I never knew, an integration of a part of myself I’d never owned, and a reclaiming of my mother’s story and my own truth,” Hargitay said in a statement. “I’ve always believed there is strength in vulnerability, and the process of making this film has confirmed that belief like never before.”
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Hargitay is also producing the HBO Original doc with Trish Adlesic. Lauran Bromley serves as executive producer.
Previously, Hargitay and Adlesic produced HBO’s Emmy-winning documentary I Am Evidence.
Hargitay is repped by CAA and Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks.
