Maggie Siff Net Worth

Maggie Siff's Quotes

• [on the strong fan backlash regarding "Tara" on Sons of Anarchy (2008)] 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."

Interesting Facts about Maggie Siff

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Her father is of Russian Jewish descent and her mother is of Irish and Swedish ancestry.
6. She is the cousin of Andrew Siff, a reporter on New York City's NBC show News 4 New York (1980).
7. Maggie Siff appeared on the October 18, 2013, cover of Entertainment Weekly, along with her Sons of Anarchy (2008) costars, Katey Sagal and Charlie Hunnam.
8. Gave birth, at age 39, to her first child, a daughter Lucy, in April 2014. The child's father is her husband, Paul Ratliff.
9. She played Dr. Tara Knowles on Sons of Anarchy, an FX drama that featured Charlie Hunnam.
10. She worked in the theater before she started appearing on TV.
11. She is the cousin of Andrew Siff, who was an NBC News reporter in New York. She married Paul Ratliff in 2012 and the couple welcomed a daughter in 2014.
12. She was nominated in 1997 for a Barrymore Award for her work in the Walnut Street Theatre Studio's production of Oleanna.