Maggie Siff
Siff was born in The Bronx, New York City. She is an alumna of The Bronx High School of Science and of Bryn Mawr College, where she majored in English and graduated in 1996. She later completed an M.F.A. in acting at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Shortly after graduating, Siff also worked as a temp at a hedge fund, an experience she drew on for her role in "Billions". Siff worked extensively in regional theater before acting in television. She won a Barrymore Award for Excellence in Theater in 1998 for her work in Henrik Ibsen's "Ghosts" at Lantern Theater Company. Siff started appearing in television series in 2004. She appeared as an Alcoholics Anonymous speaker during an episode of "Rescue Me" in Season 2. She also had roles on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit", "Grey's Anatomy", and "Law & Order". She played Rachel Menken Katz on the series "Mad Men" from 2007 to 2008, which earned her a nomination, along with the rest of the cast, for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. She also appeared in a small role as a burn victim on "Nip/Tuck" during that time, before being cast as Dr. Tara Knowles on "Sons of Anarchy" in 2008. She has appeared in such films as "Then She Found Me" (2007) as Lily, "Push" as a psychic surgeon (called a Stitch) named Teresa Stowe, sent to help Nick (played by Chris Evans), "Funny People" (2009) as Rachel, "Leaves of Grass" (2010) as Rabbi Renannah Zimmerman, and "Concussion" (2013) as Sam Bennet. She appears in the 2016 Showtime series "Billions". She starred in an independent indie film called "A Woman, A Part" (2016) as well as "One Percent More Humid" (2017). In 2017, she narrated the audio book "Gwendy's Button Box" by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar. Starting in 2018, she has been serving as the television spokesperson for Betterment, an online investment service. In 2020, Siff provided the voice for the titular subject of "Polly Platt: The Invisible Woman", over the course of a season of Karina Longworth’s film history podcast "You Must Remember This." In October 2013, Siff announced that she was expecting her first child with husband Paul Ratliff whom she married in 2012. Siff gave birth to a daughter, Lucy.
Career
She has also had roles in the films "Push" (2009) as Teresa Stowe, and "Leaves of Grass" (2010) as Rabbi Renannah Zimmerman. She starred in indie film "A Woman, a Part" (2016) and had a minor role in the drama film "One Percent More Humid" (2017). She is the television spokesperson for the robo-advisor service Betterment.