Gemma Teller Morrow

Gemma is the matriarch of the Sons of Anarchy, widow of the club's founder and mother to its new president, Jax. She runs the garage's front office and the family's emotional life with equal ferocity, fiercely protective of her son and grandson, and utterly convinced she knows what's best for everyone around her.

Sagal plays Gemma with a warmth that never fully hides the steel underneath, so you believe both the loving grandmother and the woman capable of terrifying manipulation. The show gives her real power inside a world built by and for men, and she wields it without apology, which makes her magnetic from her very first scene.