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Elisabeth Moss

Elisabeth Moss

Birthday: 1982-07-24 | Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA

Elisabeth Singleton Moss (born July 24, 1982) is an American actor and producer. She is known for her work in several television dramas, earning such accolades as two Primetime Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards, which led Vulture to name her the "Queen of Peak TV". Moss began acting in the early 1990s and first gained recognition for playing Zoey Bartlet, the youngest daughter of President Josiah Bartlet, in the NBC political drama series The West Wing (1999–2006). Wider recognition came for playing Peggy Olson, a secretary-turned-copywriter, in the AMC period drama series Mad Men (2007–2015). She won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film for playing a detective in the BBC miniseries Top of the Lake (2013), and she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series and Outstanding Drama Series for producing and starring in the Hulu dystopian drama series The Handmaid's Tale (2017–present). In film, Moss has appeared in Girl, Interrupted (1999), Virgin (2003), Get Him to the Greek (2010), The One I Love (2014), Listen Up Philip (2014), Queen of Earth (2015), The Square (2017), The Seagull (2018), Her Smell (2018), Us (2019), and The Invisible Man (2020). Her theatre work includes Broadway productions of David Mamet's Speed the Plow and Wendy Wasserstein's The Heidi Chronicles. For the latter, she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. She has also appeared in the West End production of Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour. Description above from the Wikipedia article Elisabeth Moss, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
Shining Girls

as    Kirby Mazrachi

2020
The Invisible Man

as    Cecilia Kass

2020
Shirley

as    Shirley Jackson

2019
Her Smell

as    Becky Something

2019
The Kitchen

as    Claire Walsh

2019
Us

as    Kitty Tyler / Dahlia

2019
Light of My Life

as    Mom

2018
The Seagull

as    Masha

2017
The Square

as    Anne

2017
Tokyo Project

as    Claire

2017
The Handmaid's Tale

as    June Osborne / Offred / Ofjoseph

2017
Chuck

as    Phyllis Wepner

2016
The Free World

as    Doris Long

2016
High-Rise

as    Helen Wilder

2015
Queen of Earth

as    Catherine Hewitt

2015
Truth

as    Lucy Scott

2015
Meadowland

as    Shannon

2014
Listen Up Philip

as    Ashley

2014
The One I Love

as    Sophie

2013
Top of the Lake

as    Det. Robin Griffin

2012
On the Road

as    Galatea Dunkel / Helen Hinkle

2012
Darling Companion

as    Grace

2011
Green Lantern: Emerald Knights

as    Arisia Rrab (voice)

2010
Get Him to the Greek

as    Daphne Binks

2009
Did You Hear About the Morgans?

as    Jackie Drake

2006
The Attic

as    Emma Callan

1
Fever

as    Mary Mallon