Badge, check. Gun, check. Diaper bag, check.
Mariska Hargitay and her husband of two years, actor Peter Hermann, welcomed a baby boy Wednesday in Los Angeles, her publicist confirmed Thursday. This is the couple's first child together.
"Mariska and the baby are doing great," Hargitay's publicist, Leslie Sloane-Zelnick, said.
The little lad was born at 3:20 p.m. at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and weighed in at 10 pounds, 9 ounces. Hargitay's Hungarian-accented father, actor Mickey Hargitay, was at the hospital, as well, to welcome his grandchild, according to Us Weekly, which first reported the birth. (The Law & Order: SVU star's mother was '50s screen siren Jayne Mansfield, who died in a car crash in 1967.)
Hargitay, 42, and Hermann, 38, kindled their flame on the SVU set, where he has had a recurring role as one of the many defense attorneys that parade through the precinct, making life more difficult for Hargitay's Detective Olivia Benson and her partner Elliot Stabler, played by Christopher Meloni.
Despite her burgeoning baby belly and a number of scenes that required her to sit down behind a computer and wear looser-fitting shirts, Hargitay appeared in nearly every episode of the award-winning series this past spring.
Olivia's combination of sex appeal and crime solving skills has helped SVU become the most popular of the existing Law & Order trio, pulling in more than 13.7 million people a week this season and scoring Hargitay a Golden Globe in 2005.
Hermann turned out to be the most appealing legal eagle on the other side of the table and, four months after the United 93 actor popped the question in August 2004, he and Hargitay, who was named one of People's Most Beautiful People this year, tied the knot in Santa Barbara in front of 200 guests.