# Sarah Rafferty

Sarah Rafferty (born December 6, 1972) 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; 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, went on to study at the Yale School of Drama, where she received a Master of Fine Arts.

## 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, and have two daughters.

## 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 |
| 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" |
| 2002 | CSI: Miami | Melissa Starr | Episode: "Breathless" |
| 2002 | The District | Sally | Episode: "Small Packages" |
| 2003 | Without a Trace | Dr. Patty Morrison | Episode: "The Friendly Skies" |
| 2003 | Six Feet Under | Rachel Mortimer | Episode: "The Eye Inside" |
| 2003 | The Practice | Judy Wilson | Episode: "Heroes and Villains" |
| 2003 | Tremors | Dr. Casey Matthews | Episodes: "Flora or Fauna", "Graboid Rights", "Water Hazard" |
| 2003 | Good Morning, Miami | Lila | Episode: "The Ex Games" |
| 2004 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Terry Minden | Episode: "Eleven Angry Jurors" |
| 2004 | Charmed | Carol | Episode: "The Legend of Sleepy Halliwell" |
| 2004 | Second Time Around | Daphne Fitzgerald | Episodes: "Pilot", "Secrets" |
| 2004 | 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 |
| 2007 | 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" |
| 2009 | Numb3rs | Margo | Episode: "7 Men Out" |
| 2009 | 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 |