Mariska Hargitay and Peter Hermann’s Relationship Timeline

“Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” might not be a romantic present, however it’s the place Mariska Hargitay and Peter Hermann fell in love!

Hargitay and Hermann met on the set of “SVU” in 2001, when the “Younger” actor visitor starred as protection legal professional Trevor Langan. After three years of courting, the couple married in August 2004 at a Santa Barbara chapel at a 200-guest wedding ceremony. They now reside in New York with their three lovely youngsters — sons August and Andrew and daughter Amaya.

Hargitay, who performs the lead character Olivia Benson on the long-running present, recalled the primary time she met Hermann on the set throughout a January 2022 interview with Drew Barrymore. “I was nervous, and I heard [Hermann] was German, and I didn’t know what to do, so I said — this is so embarrassing — I said, ‘So you’re a kraut.’ And he goes like this, ‘That’s funny.'”

That first candy — and humorous — second led to 19 years and counting of marriage, which Hargitay celebrated with a candy Instagram tribute on Aug. 29. Over the previous decade, the pair have skilled many stunning relationship milestones, from welcoming their youngsters to celebrating Hargitay’s five hundredth episode on “Law & Order: SVU,” and every little thing in between. And as a result of we love them a lot, we have damaged down every of this aspirational couple’s main relationship moments forward.