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My Take
Maggie Siff is, to me, one of the great practitioners of restraint on American television. From Rachel Menken in Mad Men to Tara Knowles in Sons of Anarchy and Wendy Rhoades in Billions, she keeps playing intelligent women who carry private weight, and she does it without ever raising her voice. There is a stage-trained precision in her, a Bronx toughness softened by genuine warmth. She rarely takes top billing, yet she shifts the temperature of every scene she enters. Honestly, I trust a project more the moment I see her name in the cast.
Overview
Maggie Siff (born June 21, 1974) is an American actress. Her most notable television roles have included department store heiress Rachel Menken Katz on the AMC drama Mad Men, Dr. Tara Knowles on the FX drama Sons of Anarchy for which she was twice nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, and psychiatrist Wendy Rhoades on the Showtime series Billions.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Maggie Siff
- Name (Japanese)
- マギー・シフ
- Reading
- まぎー・しふ
- Born
- June 21, 1974 (age 51)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Gemini / Tiger
- Origin
- The Bronx, New York, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- stage actor / film actor / television actor / actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Bronx High School of Science
- University
- Bryn Mawr College
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie%20Siff
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.