Maggie Siff
Maggie Siff
Maggie Siffis an American actress. She is best known for her television roles as department store heiress Rachel Menken Katz on the AMC drama Mad Men, Dr. Tara Knowles-Teller on the FX drama Sons of Anarchy, and psychiatrist Wendy Rhoades on the Showtime series Billions. She has had roles in the films Pushas Teresa Stowe and Leaves of Grassas Rabbi Renannah Zimmerman...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth21 June 1974
CityBronx, NY
CountryUnited States of America
A day on a film set is maddening.
As an artist, I think it's critical for keeping yourself alive that you try to get your hands into something a little bit more intensely. It's one of the reasons why I love theater because you never actually let go of it and it never feels like there's a tremendous distance between the process and the product.
As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?
I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.
I was an English major in college!
Over time as an actor, your life with a project can be so short lived because you come on, you do it, and then you're done. You have no control, no say, and all of a sudden there's all of this distance between the work you've put into something and the product as you see it appear on-screen.
For me to get to work with a writer-director over time in developing a project - my investment feels much more profound. I know that whatever is on the other end I'm going to feel that much closer to.
I want to do more independent film. I'm blessed to be working on really quality episodic television, which to me actually feels like a sort of 13-hour film.
You just have to learn how to fall down and get back up again. You just have to keep going.