As a result, she has an estimated net worth of $100 million (viaCelebrity Net Worth).

The Emmy winner has used some of her earnings to buy real estate.

Hargitay has also used her considerable wealth to give back.

Mariska Hargitay smiling

Hargitay asked her then-boyfriend for financial help.

“I’m a payer-backer.

So as soon as I could, I paid him off.”

Mariska Hargitay posing

‘[N]ow I have learned to hang on to [my money].

I have a nest egg, and I don’t buy above my means," she explained.