Maggie Siff (born June 21, 1974) is an American actress. She is best known for her television roles as department store heiress Rachel Menken Katz on the AMC drama Mad Men and Dr. Tara Knowles-Teller on the FX drama Sons of Anarchy. She also had roles in the films Push (2009) as Teresa Stowe and Leaves of Grass (2010) as Rabbi Renannah Zimmerman.
Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series, Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film, Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Le...
Movies
The Sweet Life, A Woman, A Part, The 5th Wave, Concussion, Leaves of Grass, Funny People, Push, Then She Found Me, Michael Clayton
TV Shows
Mad Men, Sons of Anarchy, Life on Mars, Billions
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[on the strong fan backlash regarding Tara on Sons of Anarchy] I think it's a really interesting conversation. I think these shows are always set up so we follow a protagonist and the story is very intricately built around caring for them in some way. And so anybody who runs counter to that is going to run into the problem of people turning on them. But I also think there are pretty deep gender cultural issues that have to do with a certain kind of fantasy of male and female roles, and a certain kind of fantasy around this anti-hero -the man who does terrible, terrible things but who we root for anyway because it's an enactment of an adolescent male fantasy that people take great pleasure in seeing played out. And people who run counter encounter a lot of hostility. I think it's the hostility that's the most disturbing thing -the amount of vehemence or anger or righteousness that people can feel when they say, "She should be shot. She should be killed.' That's the thing that's most startling and disturbing, when you really sit down and think about it."
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Gave birth to her first child at age 39, a daughter Lucy in April 2014. The child's father is her husband.
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Maggie Siff appeared on the October 18, 2013, cover of Entertainment Weekly (along with her "Sons of Anarchy" costars Katey Sagal and Charlie Hunnam).
She was nominated for a 2005 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Principal Role in a Play for "Dollhouse" at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
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Siff won a 1998 Barrymore for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Play for the Lantern Theater Company's production of Ghosts by H. Ibsen. The same year, she was also nominated for Outstanding Leading Actress (for InterAct Theatre Company's production of Aunt Dan & Lemon by Wallace Shawn) and for Best Emerging Philadelphia Theatre Artist.
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Nominated for a 1997 Barrymore (Philadelphia's top theater awards) for Outstanding Leading Actress in a Play for the Walnut Street Theatre Studio 3's production of Oleanna by David Mamet.
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She graduated from Bronx High School of Science. Her undergraduate degree is from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, where she majored in English and graduated in 1996). She received her master's degree in Fine Art from New York University's Tisch School.
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