Elisabeth Moss

Elisabeth Moss

Date of Birth:

Jul 24, 1982

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.

filmography:

Gypsy Gypsy

1993

The Square The Square

2017

Chuck Chuck

2017

Her Smell Her Smell

2019

Mrs. March Mrs. March

1970

Shirley Shirley

2020

The Pack The Pack

2011

Us Us

2019

Temptation Temptation

2003

Shell Shell

2024

Spirit Spirit

2001

El Camino El Camino

2008

Mumford Mumford

1999

Virgin Virgin

2003

The Attic The Attic

2006

High-Rise High-Rise

2015

Truth Truth

2015

Meadowland Meadowland

2015

Honored Honored

2007

Bar Girls Bar Girls

1990

Day Zero Day Zero

2007

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