TV star Mariska Hargitay, who plays Captain Olivia Benson on the hit NBC series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, recently showed she’s a hero both on and off screen after helping a lost child find her mother.

While filming an episode of the famed police drama on April 10, Hargitay was met by a young girl at the Anne Loftus Playground who had been separated from her mother.

The young child saw the police badge on Hargitay — who was filing a scene with co-star Ice-T — and ran up to her, assuming she was an on-duty police officer. Hargitay immediately paused production for 20 minutes to make sure that the girl found her mother, People reported.

Not long after, the girl and her mother were reunited, with Hargitay spotted comforting the pair. The moment went viral on X (formerly Twitter), with one commenter saying, “This is why I love her so much. She’s a real-life hero.”

Hargitay has played Benson since the series debuted in 1999.

Ironically, this isn’t the first time someone has turned to SVU for help in a time of crisis.

In 2021, an 11-year-old Florida girl successfully fended off an alleged kidnapper and smeared blue slime on him to help law enforcement identify him after the girl said she learned the importance of evidence from the show. Authorities ended up catching the suspect, and according to the Pensacola News Journal, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison on the charge of first-degree felony kidnapping.