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.
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Full filmography
- Grey's Anatomy (2005) as Nina Rogerson
- The Simpsons (1989) as Gretchen (voice)
- Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (2009) as Self - Guest
- Medium (2005) as Jennie / Haley Heffernan
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014) as Self
- The Daily Show (1996) as Self
- Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014) as Self
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001) as Rebecca Colemar
- The Kelly Clarkson Show (2019) as Self
- Mad Men (2007) as Peggy Olson
- The Handmaid's Tale (2017) as June Osborne / Offred / Ofjoseph
- Saturday Night Live (1975) as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
- Ghost Whisperer (2005) as Nikki Drake
- The West Wing (1999) as Zoey Bartlet
- The Jennifer Hudson Show (2022) as Self
- Project Runway (2004) as Self - Guest Judge
- The Late Late Show with James Corden (2015) as Self - Guest
- The View (1997) as Self - Guest
- The View (1997) as Self
- The Practice (1997) as Jessica Palmer
- The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005) as Self
- Golden Globe Awards (1944) as Self - Audience Member
- Batman: The Animated Series (1992) as Kimmy Ventrix (voice)
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003) as Self