Mariska Hargitay and Jayne Mansfield.
My Mom Jayne — Mariska Hargitay’s documentary about her mother, Hollywood legend Jayne Mansfield — is reportedly coming soon to streaming.
The documentary marks the feature film directorial debut for Hargitay, a previous Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series Emmy winner for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. The documentary, which Hargitay debuted at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival in the South of France on Saturday, examines the life, career and legacy of Mansfield, who died in 1967.
The official summary for My Mom Jayne reads, “Mariska Hargitay was three years old when her mother, Jayne Mansfield, tragically died in a car accident at the age of 34. The film follows Mariska as she seeks to know, understand, and embrace her mother for the first time.
“Through intimate interviews and a collection of never-before-seen photos and home movies, she grapples with her mother’s public and private legacy and discovers the layers and depth of who Jayne was, not only to her audience but to those who were closest to her.”
My Mom Jayne, which is an HBO Original documentary, will premiere on Max on Friday, June 27, according to When to Stream. The streaming tracker noted that My Mom Jayne will also have a one-week theatrical run beginning on Friday, June 20.
Viewers who don’t have Max — which will soon be switching its name back to HBO Max — can subscribe to the Warner Bros. Discovery streaming service for $9.99 per month with ads and $16.99 per month without ads. Viewers can also subscribe to Max for $20.99 monthly without ads, which includes 4K Ultra HD programming.
Mariska Hargitay Calls ‘My Mom Jayne’ A ‘Reclaiming Of My Mother’s Story’
In a statement from Mariska Hargitay issued by HBO in April, the acclaimed performer said of My Mom Jayne, “This movie is a labor of love and longing. It’s a search for the mother I never knew, an integration of a part of myself I’d never owned, and a reclaiming of my mother’s story and my own truth.
“I’ve always believed there is strength in vulnerability, and the process of making this film has confirmed that belief like never before,” Hargitay added.
Hargitay was on-hand in Cannes to introduce My Mom Jayne on Saturday. Variety reported that Hargitay was in tears delivering her opening remarks, saying, “Tonight I’m celebrating the power that film has for me to remember somebody I didn’t have the good fortune to know or grow up with.”
Variety reported that the film received a four-minute standing ovation from the crowd at Cannes.
Pete Hammond is among the critics who have published a review of My Mom Jayne after screening it at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.
In his his take on My Mom Jayne for Deadline, Hammond writes, “This film is less standard showbiz bio and more Mariska’s effort to use the documentary format to uncover the past, to find her own place in her mother’s life and to move on in what is essentially a journey to healing — and that includes a very happy ending that just might have you in tears.”
Directed and produced by Mariska Hargitay, My Mom Jayne will begin streaming on Max on June 27.
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