Elisabeth Moss

Biography

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.

Known For

Polly

Girl, Interrupted

Jessie Reynolds

Virgin

Katie Brockett

Mumford

Jackie Drake

Did You Hear About the Morgans?

Michelle (voice)

Once Upon a Forest

Daphne Binks

Get Him to the Greek

Emma Callan

The Attic

Holly (voice)

Frosty Returns

Arisia Rrab (voice)

Green Lantern: Emerald Knights

Linda

A Thousand Acres

Amber Light

Samantha

Shell

Paulie Schaffer

Bittersweet Place

Kelly O'Conner

Spirit

Galatea Dunkel / Helen Hinkle

On the Road

Greta

Imaginary Crimes

Robin Walters

Heart of America

Lily

El Camino

Ronni Beckwith

Separate Lives

Susan

A Buddy Story

Jodi

The Joyriders

Robin

Bar Girls

Cherise

West of Here

Ashley

Listen Up Philip

Anna

Escape to Witch Mountain

Sophie

The One I Love

Patricia

Day Zero

Self

The Making of ‘Mad Men’

Anna

They Never Found Her

Mindy

Earthly Possessions

Helen Wilder

High-Rise

Hyde

New Orleans, Mon Amour

Catherine Hewitt

Queen of Earth

Lucy Scott

Truth

herself

From the Bottom of the Lake

Katie

Honored

Shannon

Meadowland

Masha

The Seagull

Anne

The Missing

Last Night at the Lobster

Angie Wood

Mad to Be Normal

Phyllis Wepner

Chuck

(voice)

Recycle Rex

Doris Long

The Free World

Self

Director’s Journal: Making The Invisible Man

Rachel

Anywhere but Here

Anne

The Square

Grace

Darling Companion

Jenny Tyler

The Last Supper

Girl Player (voice)

It's Spring Training, Charlie Brown

Little Girl

Suburban Commando

'Baby' Louise Hovick

Gypsy

Christina Cowan

Midnight's Child

Early Teen Ashley Judd

Naomi & Wynonna: Love Can Build a Bridge

Claire

Tokyo Project

Claire Walsh

The Kitchen

Becky Something

Her Smell

Diana Whelan

The Pack

Shirley Jackson

Shirley

Dorothy

The Old Man & the Gun

Mom

Light of My Life

Kitty Tyler / Dahlia

Us

Cecilia Kass

The Invisible Man

Wind/Morgan

Temptation

Alumna

The French Dispatch

Gail

Next Goal Wins

Self - Actress

Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power

Rosemary Kennedy

A Letter from Rose Kennedy

Little Molly

Prison Stories: Women on the Inside

Mrs. March

Katie Hill

She Will Rise

Self

A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote

On the Nature of Daylight

Little Turcott

Angelmaker

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

74

Gender

Female

Birthday

1982-07-24

Place of Birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

Also Known As

Elizabeth Moss