Sarah Rafferty

 Rafferty was the youngest of four children from Greenwich's Riverside neighborhood. Rafferty grew up in the neighborhood of Riverside in Greenwich, Connecticut as one of the four youngest daughters. She is grateful to her mother Mary Lee Rafferty (chairwoman of the English Department at Convent of the Sacred Heart school) as well as her father Michael Griffin Rafferty Jr. for instilling her passion for the arts. Rafferty graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover in 1989. After completing her studies in English and theatre at Hamilton College she studied theatre abroad at the University of Oxford and the United Kingdom during her junior year. She then went on to the Yale School of Drama where she graduated with a Master of Fine Arts.