Elisabeth Moss

Elisabeth Moss

CountryUnited States United States
GenderFemale
BirthdayJul 24, 1982
BiographyElisabeth Singleton Moss (born July 24, 1982) is an American actor and director. The recipient of several accolades, including two Golden Globe Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a nomination for a Tony Award, she was named the "Queen of Peak TV" by Vulture in 2017.

Moss began acting in the early 1990s and first gained recognition for playing the youngest daughter of President Josiah Bartlet, in the NBC political drama series The West Wing (1999–2006). She earned wider recognition as Peggy Olson, a secretary-turned-copywriter, in the AMC period drama series Mad Men (2007–2015), and subsequently won the Golden Globe Award for portraying a detective in the BBC miniseries Top of the Lake (2013). For producing and starring as June Osborne in the Hulu dystopian drama series The Handmaid's Tale (2017–2025), Moss won two Primetime Emmy Awards. She has also starred in the Apple TV+ series Shining Girls (2022) and the FX on Hulu series The Veil (2024).

On film, she took supporting roles in Girl, Interrupted (1999), The Seagull (2018), Us (2019), and The French Dispatch (2021) while gaining acclaim for her starring roles in The One I Love (2014), The Square (2017), The Invisible Man (2020), and Shirley (2020). She has also starred in three films by Alex Ross Perry: Listen Up Philip (2014), Queen of Earth (2016), and Her Smell (2018). On stage, she starred in the Broadway revivals of David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow (2008) and Wendy Wasserstein's The Heidi Chronicles (2015), the latter earning her a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play nomination. She also appeared in the West End production of Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour (2011).

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