Background
Rafferty grew up as the youngest of four children (all girls) in the Riverside neighborhood of Greenwich, Connecticut.
Rafferty grew up as the youngest of four children (all girls) in the Riverside neighborhood of Greenwich, Connecticut.
Yale School of Drama. Phillips Academy; Hamilton College.
She is known mainly for her role as Donna on the United States of America Network legal drama Suits. She has appeared in several other television series. Other roles include the 2007 television movie What If God Were the Sun? and the 2011 movie Small, Beautifully Moving Parts.
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 Junior., 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.