Mariska Hargitay and Peter Hermann made a red carpet appearance with their three children at Cannes 2025
The Law & Order: Special Victims Unit actress previously told PEOPLE that she’s “so grateful that I’m an older mom”
The couple welcomed their first child together in 2006, and then welcomed Amaya and Andrew through adoption within six months of each other
Mariska Hargitay enjoyed a family night out as she celebrated the premiere of her directorial debut.
The Law & Order: Special Victims Unit actress, 61, was joined by her actor husband Peter Hermann, 57, and their three children on the red carpet for her directorial debut, My Mom Jayne. Hargitay premiered the documentary, which details her mother’s legacy, at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.
The actress posed alongside her husband and three children wearing a black and red sequinned gown. Her husband and sons matched in black suits and a black bowtie, while her daughter wore a black dress.
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Mariska Hargitay
The two actors, who met on the set of Hargitay’s show Law & Order SVU, married in 2004. During their 20-year marriage, the couple welcomed Andrew, 11, Amaya, 12, and August, 17.
Hargitay gave birth to her first child, August, at age 42, in 2006. She and Hermann later welcomed Amaya and Andrew through adoption within six months of each other.
When it comes to motherhood, Hargitay said she leans on her kids and Hermann to help her figure it out along the way.
“The thing that’s made me a better parent is my kids, because they taught me to really listen,” she explained. “My husband is my North Star, and my kids are my teachers.”
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Mariska Hargitay, Peter Herman and their children
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In January 2024, she told PEOPLE that she is “so grateful that I’m an older mom.”
“I don’t know if I could have handled it when I was younger,” she admitted. “When I was younger I wasn’t as present but as I’ve gotten older I’ve started to accept and appreciate.”
While raising three children has often been a handful, Hargitay has said she wouldn’t have it any other way.
“Our family is so perfect, or at least perfect for me,” she told PEOPLE in March 2018. “Together we’re just this whole, happy, joyful, chaotic, crazy unit. I’ve never known anything that was more right.”
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