American actress Sarah Rafferty has appeared in both film and television. She is most well-known for her part in the USA Network television series Suits as Donna Paulsen.
Born on December 6, 1972, Rafferty. She was raised in Greenwich, Connecticut, along with her father, who worked in finance and the arts, her mother, who was the chairwoman of the English department at the Convent of the Sacred Heart School, and her three elder sisters.
She graduated in 1989 from Phillips Academy in Massachusetts. Later, she attended Hamilton College and majored in both English and theatre.
She attended Hamilton College while studying abroad at the University of Oxford in the UK. She earned her Master of Fine Arts at the Yale School of Drama after graduating from Hamilton College in 1993.
Rafferty’s role as Sarah in the 1998 television movie Trinity earned her her first acting credit. Between 1998 and 2010, she appeared in various TV guest roles, mostly for a single episode.
These programmes include Bones, Brothers & Sisters, Charmed, Without a Trace, Six Feet Under, CSI: Miami, and Law & Order.
In the 2002 movie Speakeasy, Rafferty played a supporting role. Two characters in the movie become friends as a result of a car accident. In the film, Rafferty played a nurse.
Rafferty was cast in the lead position of the USA Network legal drama series Suits in 2011. Up until the show’s final episode, which aired in 2019, Rafferty played Donna Roberta Paulsen for all nine of the seasons.
Paulsen served as Specter Litt Wheeler Williams’ chief operating officer. She initially served as Harvey Specter’s secretary and confidante before eventually becoming his wife, as portrayed by Gabriel Macht. Her personality is considered as bright and capable of competing with strong men.
Although Donna’s character wasn’t universally despised by viewers, they had problems with her character arc.
Rafferty won a recurring part in Season 16 of the venerable programme Grey’s Anatomy in 2020.
Rafferty portrayed Suzanne, who underwent a procedure at Grey Sloan and experienced strange side effects that Drs. Miranda Bailey and Andrew DeLuca struggled to understand.
Rafferty is still working as an actress and most recently starred in the 2020 film Browse, which is about a man who starts using online dating and soon starts to suspect that his identity has been stolen.
Rafferty played a recurring character on the medical drama Chicago Med from 2021 to 2022. She portrayed renowned transplant surgeon Dr. Pamela Blake in the role.
Rafferty was chosen to play Dr. Katherine Walter in the upcoming Netflix series My Life with the Walter Boys, which is currently in production.
My Life with the Walter Boys, which is based on the novel of the same name, is about a girl named Jackie who is forced to leave her lavish life in New York City and move to Colorado after her family is killed in a car accident.
Jackie must move in with Dr. Walter, a character played by Rafferty, and her ten children, nine of whom are boys. Dr. Walter was Jackie’s mother’s friend.
Rafferty serves as an ambassador for HFC, a foundation that promotes awareness of Alzheimer’s disease. Seth Rogen, an actor and comedian, and his wife Lauren Miller Rogen established the foundation. Yvette Nicole Brown and Richard Lui are among its celebrity ambassadors.
Rafferty also promotes the fight against Alzheimer’s by using Facebook and Instagram. Additionally, she mentioned on social media that her grandmother had Alzheimer’s.
Rafferty sold her West Hollywood house in 2019 after living there for more than ten years. More than $100,000 over the asking price, her house sold for over $2 million.
Within two weeks of the property being listed, an offer was made and accepted. Rafferty initially paid $1.7 million for the property in 2006.
Rafferty and Santtu Seppälä met while both were students at Yale University.
In 2001, after several years of dating, they were wed in Greenwich, Connecticut. By 2022, they are still a married couple.
Oona Gray, Rafferty’s daughter, was born in 2007. She had a second daughter in 2012 who was named Iris Friday.