Mariska Hargitay: When were you happiest?

Originally asked

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

Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.

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

Recorded Mariska Hargitay said elsewhere, not written here

When our family was complete.

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

Others on this question

This year's a pretty good year.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 August 2013 source ↗

Abigail Breslin American actress

Christmas 2007 – I got hair straighteners.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 January 2014 source ↗

Wherever I’m sitting, once I finish this questionnaire.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2017 source ↗

Olivia Colman British actress

When my husband and I first said we loved each other, in our student flat in Cambridge.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 May 2013 source ↗

People who do hard, honorable work in obscurity.

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

Sharks. The ones in the ocean.

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

My family. Together in a room with a sax, a piano, and a Ping-Pong table.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 19 January 2024 source ↗

The inability to listen. Inauthentic vocal registers. Calling anything other than food “delicious” or “yummy.”

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

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