Elisabeth Moss
Acting
- Born:
- 1982-07-24
- Place of birth:
- Los Angeles, California, USA
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
Filmography
The Testaments
Imperfect Women
Shell
The Veil
Next Goal Wins
The Jennifer Hudson Show
Shining Girls
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote
Shirley
Director’s Journal: Making The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man
Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Light of My Life
The Kitchen
Her Smell
Us
The Old Man & the Gun
On the Nature of Daylight
The Seagull
The Square
Chuck
O Conto da Aia
The Handmaid's Tale
Tokyo Project
Mad to Be Normal
The Free World
Chelsea
High-Rise
Truth
Meadowland
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Queen of Earth
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Listen Up Philip
The One I Love
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Off Camera with Sam Jones
From the Bottom of the Lake
Top of the Lake
On the Road
Darling Companion
The Pack
Green Lantern: Emerald Knights
Get Him to the Greek
A Buddy Story
Did You Hear About the Morgans?
Mercy
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Eater
Establishing Mad Men
Fear Itself
New Orleans, Mon Amour
El Camino
The Attic
Honored
Mad Men
Day Zero
They Never Found Her
The Making of 'Mad Men'
El hormiguero
Ghost Whisperer
Invasion
Bittersweet Place
Grey's Anatomy
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Medium
Project Runway
The Missing
Virgin
Temptation
Heart of America
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
West of Here
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Spirit
Earthly Possessions
Girl, Interrupted
Anywhere but Here
Mumford
The West Wing
The Joyriders
Hollywood Squares
Angelmaker
A Thousand Acres
The View
The Practice
The Daily Show
Film Independent Spirit Awards
It's Spring Training, Charlie Brown
Freakazoid!
Separate Lives
The Last Supper
Naomi & Wynonna: Love Can Build a Bridge
Escape to Witch Mountain
Imaginary Crimes
Gypsy
Animaniacs
Johnny Bago
Once Upon a Forest
Recycle Rex
Frosty Returns
Picket Fences
Batman: The Animated Series
MTV Movie & TV Awards
Midnight's Child
Suburban Commando
Prison Stories: Women on the Inside
Lucky Chances
Bar Girls
The Simpsons
Anything but Love
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Saturday Night Live
Golden Globe Awards
Amber Light
Last Night at the Lobster
A Letter from Rose Kennedy
The Invisible Man 2
Conviction