Sarah Rafferty

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Actress

Birth Date: December 6, 1972

Age: 51 years old

Birth Place: New Canaan, Connecticut

Sarah Rafferty is an American actress who has appeared regularly on television and occasionally films throughout the 2000s. Born on December 6, 1972 in New Canaan, CT, Rafferty was raised in an artistically inclined family (her father, Michael Griffin Rafferty Jr., was a successful oil painter). After graduating from Phillips Academy in Andover, MA in 1989, Rafferty majored in English and Theatre at Hamilton College, spending her junior year abroad at the University of Oxford, graduated magna cum laude in 1993, before receiving her MFA from the Yale School of Drama. After appearing on a diverse range of TV shows, including "Law & Order" (NBC, 1990-2010), "Walker, Texas Ranger" (CBS, 1993-2001), "Six Feet Under" (HBO, 2001-05), "Charmed" (The WB, 1998-2006), and "Bones" (FOX, 2005-2017), and a handful of films, including "Speakeasy" (2002), "Falling for Grace" (2006), and "Four Single Feathers" (2009), Rafferty landed her first series regular part as Donna Roberta Paulsen on the corporate intrigue drama "Suits" (USA Network, 2011-).

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