Tara Rafferty
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1 January 2017
by Robert and Michelle King
| Tara Rafferty | |
|---|---|
| Striking Out character | |
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| First appearance | Series 1, Episode 1 1 January 2017 |
| Created by | James Phelan |
| Based on | Alicia Florrick by Robert and Michelle King |
| Portrayed by | Amy Huberman |
| In-universe information | |
| Occupation | Solicitor |
| Affiliation | Vincent Pike George Cusack Ray Lamont |
| Family | Irene Rafferty (mother) Conrad Rafferty (father) |
| Significant others | Eric Dunbar Sam Dunbar |
| Nationality | Irish |
Tara Rafferty is the lead character in Irish legal drama Striking Out, based on The Good Wife and its lead character Alicia Florrick, created by Robert and Michelle King. Tara is shown as a solicitor who goes out on her own after breaking up with her fiancée. Tara is the central character of the show. Tara is played by actress Amy Huberman. Huberman was nominated and won an IFTA award for her role as Tara in 2017. Tara's main storylines within the show have centred around her establishing herself as a lawyer on her own after she leaves the inner circle of Dunbar and Calloway solicitors due to end her engagement with her fiancée Eric.
On June 20, 2016, a 4-part English language remake of The Good Wife by Robert and Michelle King, was ordered on RTÉ One under the working title Cheaters, starring Amy Huberman as Tara Rafferty, a character based on Julianna Margulies's Alicia Florrick.[1][2] with the series ultimately being retitled Striking Out.[3]
Prior to the series starting, Huberman described Tara as "a woman who feels she has everything going for her and then finds the rug being pulled from under her, both professionally and emotionally."[4] Huberman later said that in her role you can be "voyeuristic".[5]
In an interview Tara said about her character "Listen, I’m really happy to be playing a lead in a show, that she has a lot to do, she has important stuff to do in a legal capacity, she’s a strong character who has her flaws and has her strengths. You see both of them, and see that’s important as well that someone – especially a female character – can be flawed like male characters, with wins and losses and everything. I feel really grateful to be playing her."[6]
Huberman explained in an interview about Series 2, "Amy Huberman: Even though she derailed, Tara found her feet on her own, and that independence fueled something in her that ended up meaning a lot more to her. I think she, in retrospect, looked at her life, and even though she thought that she had been happy, questioned what that happiness was. So we see her recovery, and even though she's still raw with the wounds of what happened, I think she's massively grateful."[7]
