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"    Photo: Getty Images   As Tara, the recalcitrant matriarch of SAMCRO, the fictional NoCal biker gang on FX&amp;#039;s wildly popular &amp;quot;Sons of Anarchy,&amp;quot; theater-vet Maggie Siff is a little out of her element. &amp;quot;I so never went through a bad-girl period,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale\u2014not exactly an area of New York that&amp;#039;s known for being rough and tumble. My parents were radical hippies in the &amp;#039;60s so there would have never been anything to rebel against, anyway.&amp;quot; If you don&amp;#039;t yet know Tara, who after four impetuous seasons finally made a decent man out of the sinfully sexy Jax (played with a Tim Riggins-esque confidence by British import Charlie Hunnam), you may recognize Siff as Rachel Menken, Don Draper&amp;#039;s much-loved mistress on season one of Mad Men. &amp;quot;Nobody knew what Mad Men would become, but we all knew how      special it was,&amp;quot; she says wistfully of the role\u2014the first of several meaty small-screen characters she has played. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s an incredible time for television. I feel so lucky that I kind of fell into it when and how I did.&amp;quot; When it comes to the mercurial men she attracts on TV, life does not imitate art for the 38-year-old, happily engaged actress. &amp;quot;All of them are damaged,&amp;quot; she says of the Jax and Draper prototypes, which prime time would have viewers believe is the holy grail of courtship. &amp;quot;That is a part of their appeal, sure. But would you actually want to hitch your wagon to one of them?&amp;quot;&amp;quot; Episode two of &amp;quot;Sons of Anarchy&amp;quot; airs tonight at 10 p.m. EST on FX.   "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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