Sons Of Anarchy

Tara Knowles-Teller was a doctor at St. Thomas Hospital in Charming, California.   She was the wife ofJackson 'Jax' Teller and the mother of Abel Teller and Thomas Teller Jr.  Tara is one of three characters that has appeared in every episode thus far.

Tara was a native of Charming, California. (She says her heritage is half-Irish.) Tara's mother died when she was nine years old. According to ATF Agent June Stahl, she had a "drunk daddy," and Tara has described him as a "bit of a packrat." She was Jax's high-school girlfriend, and during this era she got a crow tattoo on her lower back representing her connection to SAMCRO. Tara was arrested in Jax's company at least three times in 1996, incl. public intoxication, disorderly conduct and possession of stolen property. Tara left town when Jax was 19, trying to get away from small-town life and the heavy-handed influence of the club. According to Gemma this all but broke Jax's heart. After leaving Charming she moved in with a cousin of her father's who lived in San Diego, studied at UC San Diego where she graduated with honors, attended medical school in Chicago (Feinberg Medical School at Northwestern University according to her file in "Fun Town" but "Loyola Med" according to Agent Stahl in "Better Half,") where she was at the top of her class, and then went on to her internship in Chicago Presbyterian. While in Chicago she dated ATF agent Josh Kohn, and got pregnant by him, but had an abortion at six weeks. Kohn became intimidating at a certain point in their relationship so she took out a restraining order against him. She told Hale that she had to go to 3 precincts before successfully getting a restraining order. She doubted law enforcement's ability to protect her. After an 11 year absence, Tara returned to Charming, "the only place [she] ever felt safe." Tara thought that if the law enforcement failed to protect her, SAMCRO could.