Flipboard Culture Desk<p>Mariska Hargitay is best-known for starring as detective Olivia Benson in "Law & Order: SVU." But she's also the daughter of actress Jayne Mansfield, who died in a car crash when Hargitay was only three years old. Hargitay, who says she has no memory of her mom at all, tells her family’s complicated story in the HBO documentary “My Mom Jayne.” It’s “less a biography of Jayne Mansfield than a study of how, in one family, people who love each other manage to live alongside their regrets, and alongside the mistakes that they have made and that other people, flawed and uncertain about what to do, have made in turn,” Linda Holmes writes. Read her story from <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@npr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>npr</span></a></span>:</p><p><a href="https://flip.it/x2NHNB" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">flip.it/x2NHNB</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Culture</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/TV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TV</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Entertainment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Entertainment</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/JayneMansfield" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JayneMansfield</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/MariskaHargitay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MariskaHargitay</span></a></p>