Mariska Hargitay: Which living person do you most admire, and why?

Which living person do you most admire, and why?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Mariska Hargitay said elsewhere, not written here

People who do hard, honorable work in obscurity.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2024 source ↗

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Chris Rock

Barack Obama—just the balls to think he could be president is gangster. People forget that, when he first announced he was running, most black people were for Hillary Clinton. The only person that was laughed at more for a crazy idea was Noah.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2016 source ↗

Danielle Steel Novelist

My agent Mort Janklow, Sidney Poitier, and Barbara Walters.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2012 source ↗

Stephen Graham English actor

My wife, Hannah. She’s amazing and keeps me in check. I met her 24 years ago at drama school.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 April 2018 source ↗

Johanna Konta British tennis player

My parents, because they did what they did to give me the opportunities to do what I do. They left their lives behind in Australia and started again in their 40s in a new country.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 June 2018 source ↗