Sarah Rafferty

 Sarah Gray Rafferty (born December 6, 1972) is an American actress who is well-known for her character Donna Paulsen on the USA Network legal drama Suits.Rafferty was raised as one of the four youngest daughters living in the Riverside neighborhood of Greenwich, Connecticut. She attributes her mother, Mary Lee Rafferty, who is the Chairperson 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. He has also helped cultivate her love of the arts. Her sisters are Maura, Ann, and Constance.Rafferty was a student at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and graduated in 1989. She studied 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 with the magna cumlaude from Hamilton in 1993, she went to the Yale School of Drama, earning a Master of Fine Arts.Rafferty's husband is Aleksanteri Olli-Pekka Seppala, an American of Finnish descent. She is an analyst in the stock market in the asset management division of Lazard Freres & Company. On June 23, 2001 they were married at the Roman Catholic Church of St. Mary in Greenwich.