Overview
- My Mom Jayne earned three Primetime Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special and Outstanding Directing for a Nonfiction Program, a development reported on Tuesday.
- NBC confirmed Hargitay will host the Primetime Emmy telecast in September and she is working with a writers’ room that includes staff from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
- The HBO film is Hargitay’s nonfiction directorial debut and documents her search into Jayne Mansfield’s life, including her discovery that Nelson Sardelli is her biological father.
- Hargitay said directing the documentary was profoundly healing and that the experience helped lead to a summer Broadway run in Every Brilliant Thing and to her decision to continue into Law & Order: SVU’s 28th season.
- Her elevated visibility — from awards attention and Broadway to high-profile Knicks appearances — raises the documentary’s profile during awards season and broadens Hargitay’s crossover appeal in entertainment and sports coverage.