Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Mariska Hargitay is the new highest paid TV actress around, thanks to her new NBC deal for Law & Order: SVU, which was just picked up for it's ninth season. She now surpasses Kyra Sedgwick, on The Closer. Sources estimate her paycheck at around $330,000 and episode, though no one at NBC will confirm that figure.

Hargitay's co-star, Chris Meloni, inked the same deal, and it's said that he is closing in on Two & A Half Men's Charlie Sheen as TV's highest paid actor.

Last year both Meloni and Hargitay were nominated for Emmy's, with Mariska taking home the statuette for Best Actress in a Drama Series.

330k is still a long ways from the cool 1 mil an episode each that the Friends cast were raking in.....

Labels: Charlie Sheen, Chris Meloni, Kyra Sedgwick, Mariska Hargitay