Sarah Rafferty
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Rafferty in 2018
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| Born | Sarah Gray Rafferty (1972-12-06) December 6, 1972 (age 51)
New Canaan, Connecticut, U.S.
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| 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 Gray 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.
Rafferty grew up as the youngest of four daughters in the Riverside neighborhood of Greenwich, Connecticut.[2] Rafferty studied at Phillips AcademyinAndover, Massachusetts, and graduated in 1989. She majored in English and Theatre at Hamilton College, 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, receiving a Master of Fine Arts.[2]
Rafferty's husband is Aleksanteri Olli-Pekka Seppälä, an American of Finnish descent, who is the Vice President of Strategy and Business Development at the Angeleno Group. They married on June 23, 2001, at the Roman Catholic church of St. Mary in Greenwich, Connecticut,[3] and have two daughters.[2][4]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 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 |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 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 |
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