Sarah Rafferty

Sarah Rafferty
Rafferty in 2018
Born	(1972-12-06) December 6, 1972 (age 52)
Education	Hamilton College, New York (BA) Yale University (MFA)
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1990s–present
Spouse	Aleksanteri Olli-Pekka Seppälä ​ ​ (m. 2001)​
Children	2

Sarah Rafferty (born December 6, 1972) ^[1] is an American actress, best known for her role as Donna Roberta Paulsen on the USA Network legal drama Suits and for her role as Katherine Walter on the American teen drama My Life with the Walter Boys , for which she received a Children's and Family Emmy Award nomination in the Outstanding Supporting Performer category. She currently co-hosts a podcast with her fellow Suits co-star Patrick J. Adams called Sidebar, with them watching through an episode of the legal drama with each podcast.

Early life and education

Rafferty grew up as the youngest of four daughters in the Riverside neighborhood of Greenwich, Connecticut; ^[2] she studied at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, graduating in 1989. Majoring in English and Theatre at Hamilton College, she studied theatre in the United Kingdom at the University of Oxford during her junior year and, after graduating magna cum laude from Hamilton in 1993, ^[3] went on to study at the Yale School of Drama, where she received a Master of Fine Arts. ^[2]

Personal life

Rafferty's husband is Aleksanteri Olli-Pekka Seppälä, an American of Finnish descent, and the Vice President of Strategy and Business Development at the Angeleno Group, a venture capital firm. They married on June 23, 2001, at the Roman Catholic church of St. Mary in Greenwich, Connecticut, ^[3] and have two daughters. ^{[2] [4]}

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	Mambo Café	Amy
2002	Speakeasy	Nurse
2004	Soccer Dog: European Cup	Cora Stone
2006	Falling for Grace	Sydney
2006	The Devil Wears Prada	Liz	Deleted scene[ citation needed ]
2009	Four Single Fathers	Julia
2011	Small, Beautifully Moving Parts	Emily
2016	All Things Valentine	Avery

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998	Trinity	Sarah	Television film
1999	Law & Order	Jennifer Shaliga	Episode: "Ambitious"
2001	Walker, Texas Ranger	Laura Pope	Episode: "Desperate Measures"
2002	Third Watch	Kelly	Episode: "Crash and Burn"
	CSI: Miami	Melissa Starr	Episode: "Breathless"
	The District	Sally	Episode: "Small Packages"
2003	Without a Trace	Dr. Patty Morrison	Episode: "The Friendly Skies"
	Six Feet Under	Rachel Mortimer	Episode: "The Eye Inside"
	The Practice	Judy Wilson	Episode: "Heroes and Villains"
	Tremors	Dr. Casey Matthews	Episodes: "Flora or Fauna", "Graboid Rights", "Water Hazard"
	Good Morning, Miami	Lila	Episode: "The Ex Games"
2004	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Terry Minden	Episode: "Eleven Angry Jurors"
	Charmed	Carol	Episode: "The Legend of Sleepy Halliwell"
	Second Time Around	Daphne Fitzgerald	Episodes: "Pilot", "Secrets"
	8 Simple Rules	Danielle	Episode: "A Very C.J. Christmas"
2006	Pepper Dennis	Callie	Episode: "Heiress Bridenapped: Film at Eleven"
2007	Football Wives	Kelly Cooper	Television film
	What If God Were the Sun?	Rachel	Television film
2008	Samantha Who?	Kayla Kaminski	Episode: "So I Think I Can Dance"
2009	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Sandra Dunbar / Sandra O'Bannon	Episode: "Passion"
	Numb3rs	Margo	Episode: "7 Men Out"
	Bones	Katie Selnick	Episode: "The Foot in the Foreclosure"
2010	Brothers & Sisters	Gloria Pierson-Davenport	Episode: "A Righteous Kiss"
2011–2019	Suits	Donna Paulsen	Main role, 132 episodes
2016	All Things Valentine	Avery Parker	Television film
2020	Grey's Anatomy	Suzanne	Recurring role
2021–2022	Chicago Med	Dr. Pamela Blake	Recurring role
2023	My Life with the Walter Boys	Dr. Katherine Walter	Main role

References

1. "December 6, birthdays for Andrew Cuomo, Johnny Manziel, Giannis Antetokounmpo" . Brooklyn Daily Eagle . December 6, 2016.
2. Chris Hodenfield. "Perfectly suited". Greenwich Magazine. Archived from the original on December 12, 2015. Retrieved February 19, 2013.
3. "Weddings; Sarah Rafferty, Santtu Seppala". The New York Times . June 24, 2001.
4. Gina Roberts-Grey (January 21, 2013). "Sarah Rafferty: fitness 'suits' her". Yahoo! Health. Retrieved February 19, 2013.

External links

• Sarah Rafferty on Twitter
• Sarah Rafferty at IMDb