--- title: Mariska Hargitay Met Taylor Swift's Cat Olivia Benson description: Actress Mariska Hargitay hung out with Swift's beloved pet backstage at a concert canonical: https://time.com/3921055/taylor-swift-cat-olivia-benson-mariska-hargitay/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-15T14:21:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:24.078Z og:title: Taylor Swift's Cat, Olivia Benson, Met the Real Olivia Benson og:description: Actress Mariska Hargitay met Swift's beloved pet backstage at a concert og:url: https://time.com/3921055/taylor-swift-cat-olivia-benson-mariska-hargitay/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Taylor Swift's Cat, Olivia Benson, Met the Real Olivia Benson twitter:description: Actress Mariska Hargitay met Swift's beloved pet backstage at a concert twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Taylor Swift's Cat, Olivia Benson, Met the Real Olivia Benson ## Video: 25 Iconic Taylor Swift Instagrams in 25 Seconds [Watch (HLS stream): 25 Iconic Taylor Swift Instagrams in 25 Seconds](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/I8WlXTNY.m3u8) (0:35)  _Published 2014-12-11. 25 Iconic Taylor Swift Instagrams in 25 Seconds_ by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jun 15, 2015 2:21 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jun 15, 2015 2:21 PM UTC One of Taylor Swift’s cats is named Olivia Benson, in honor of the fictional Sergeant and Commanding Officer played by Mariska Hargitay on _Law & Order: Special Victims Unit._ Well, this weekend, the feline Olivia Benson met the human Olivia Benson backstage at Swift’s concert in Philadelphia. Hargitay, who appeared in Swift’s “Bad Blood” music video,[ joined the singer onstage](http://time.com/3920458/taylor-swift-mariska-hargitay-cara-delevingne/) earlier in the night — and then later, _this_ happened: “This is Olivia Benson meeting Olivia Benson,” Swift says in the video, which has racked up a casual 1 million likes, “and, um, things are going well so far.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3921055/taylor-swift-cat-olivia-benson-mariska-hargitay/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3921055/taylor-swift-cat-olivia-benson-mariska-hargitay/"},"headline":"Taylor Swift's Cat, Olivia Benson, Met the Real Olivia Benson","datePublished":"2015-06-15T14:21:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:48:24.078Z","description":"Actress Mariska Hargitay hung out with Swift's beloved pet backstage at a concert","url":"https://time.com/3921055/taylor-swift-cat-olivia-benson-mariska-hargitay/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3921055/taylor-swift-cat-olivia-benson-mariska-hargitay/","name":"Taylor Swift's Cat, Olivia Benson, Met the Real Olivia Benson"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"25 Iconic Taylor Swift Instagrams in 25 Seconds","description":"25 Iconic Taylor Swift Instagrams in 25 Seconds","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/I8WlXTNY/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-12-11T16:58:18.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/I8WlXTNY.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3921055/taylor-swift-cat-olivia-benson-mariska-hargitay/","duration":"PT35S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3921055/taylor-swift-cat-olivia-benson-mariska-hargitay/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```