Elisabeth Moss

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 19992006 Wider recognition came for playing Peggy Olson a secretaryturnedcopywriter in the AMC period drama series Mad Men 20072015 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 Handmaids Tale 2017present 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 Mamets Speed the Plow and Wendy Wassersteins 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 Hellmans The Childrens Hour Description above from the Wikipedia article Elisabeth Moss licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia