Early life and education

Rafferty grew up as the youngest of four children (all girls) in the Riverside neighborhood of Greenwich, Connecticut. She credits her mother, Mary Lee Rafferty, the Chairwoman of the English Department at Convent of the Sacred Heart school, and her father, Michael Griffin Rafferty Jr., who enjoys two successful careers in finance and oil painting, for cultivating her passion for the arts. Her sisters are Maura, Ann, and Constance.

Rafferty studied at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and graduated in 1989. She majored in English and Theatre at Hamilton College, studied theatre abroad in the United Kingdom and 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, receiving a Master of Fine Arts.

Personal life

Rafferty met her husband Aleksanteri Olli-Pekka Seppala, a stock research analyst in the asset management unit of Lazard Frères & Company in New York, and they were married on June 23, 2001, at the Roman Catholic church of St. Mary in Greenwich, Connecticut. The couple have two daughters, Oona Gray (b. 22 October 2007) and Iris Friday (b. January 2012).

She and her Suits co-star Gabriel Macht have been best friends for over 20 years. They met in 1993 at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.

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
2009	Four Single Fathers	Julia
2011	Small, Beautifully Moving Parts	Emily

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998	Trinity	Sarah	TV 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"
	District, TheThe 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"
	Practice, TheThe 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	TV film
	What If God Were the Sun?	Rachel	TV 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-present	Suits	Donna Roberta Paulsen	Main role (71 episodes)
2016	All Things Valentine	Avery Parker	TV Film

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