Mariska Hargitay is debuting a new look.
The “Law & Order: SVU” star revealed her hair transformation in celebrity hairstylist Adir Abergel’s May 3 Instagram post, which showed the 62-year-old actress flaunting loosely waved hair that was cut to just below her chin.
The chop was done weeks ahead of her Broadway debut in “Every Brilliant Thing” at the Hudson Theatre; her run is currently scheduled for May 26 through June 28, after Daniel Radcliffe takes a bow from the one-man show that just earned him a Tony nomination.
“Switching gears,” Hargitay commented under the post.
The new style is a deviation for Hargitay, aka the beloved Olivia Benson, who is now known for her longer brunette locks. However, she has undergone several different eras with her hair; she sported various shorter styles over the first 10 seasons of “SVU.”
“Like any woman, Olivia is trying to find the hairstyle that fits her life,” Hargitay told TV Insider in 2018. “I stand behind all my hairdos, except maybe three.”
Her character’s spiky ‘do in Season 3, which Hargitay described as “a little porcupine-esque” in a September interview with Allure, was an accident that left her in tears and briefly threatened her career, the actress has said in interviews over the years.
Mariska Hargitay attends the NBCUniversal Emmys luncheon at Avra Beverly Hills Estiatorio on April 22, 2026, in Beverly Hills, California.
“Law & Order” creator Dick Wolf “told me he was going to fire me. I cried so hard, like, ‘You’re blaming me?'” she recalled to TV Insider. “It went on for two weeks; then he said, ‘There’s no crying in television,’ and we moved past it.”
The chop happened “in the middle of an episode,” Hargitay said on “The Kelly Clarkson Show” in November.
Abergel, who’s worked with clients from Nicole Kidman to Hailee Steinfeld, Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Garner, is no stranger to major hair transformations.
He and Oscar nominee Kristen Stewart are thick as thieves – so much so that the “Twilight” alumna has entrusted “best friend” Abergel with nearly making her bald.
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“Thank you so much for knowing me so deeply as a human, whether we’re shaving your head one day, bleaching your roots before a premiere or notching into your hair with kitchen scissors to the point where people yell at me asking me, ‘Listen! Why are you leaving her bald? What is the problem here?'” Abergel said during his acceptance speech at the WWD Style Awards in January.
“This is the kind of collaborator you are in my life. You are an absolutely fearless artist and an icon,” he added.
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