Mariska Hargitay Faced Doubts She Could Lead ‘SVU’ After Christopher Meloni’s Exit

By Jack Robbins

When Christopher Meloni left Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Mariska Hargitay faced a question she had never had to answer before: Could she really lead the show on her own? For more than a decade, Hargitay, 62, and Meloni, 65, had been at the heart of the NBC procedural as Olivia Benson and Elliot […]