Elisabeth Moss — Biography
Born July 24, 1982, Elisabeth Singleton Moss is a decorated British-American performer and executive producer. Her distinguished career in television dramas has garnered her two Primetime Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards, leading Vulture to bestow upon her the title "Queen of Peak TV." Moss embarked on her acting journey in the early 1990s, first capturing attention as Zoey Bartlet, the youngest child of President Josiah Bartlet, in the acclaimed NBC political series The West Wing, which aired from 1999 to 2006.
Her profile rose considerably with her portrayal of Peggy Olson, a secretary who evolves into a copywriter, in the AMC period drama Mad Men, running from 2007 to 2015. Following this, Moss earned a Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Movie/Miniseries and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film for her compelling performance as Detective Robin Griffin in the BBC miniseries Top of the Lake in 2013.
More recently, Moss has achieved significant recognition for producing and starring as June Osborne in the Hulu dystopian drama The Handmaid's Tale, a role for which she has received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series and Outstanding Drama Series, among other honors. Beyond television, Moss has also impressed audiences with her film work, including notable supporting turns in Girl, Interrupted (1999), Get Him to the Greek (2010), and Us (2019), as well as leading roles in The One I Love (2014), The Square (2017), The Invisible Man (2020), and Shirley (2020). She has collaborated with director Alex Ross Perry on three films, including Her Smell (2018). On the theatrical stage, Moss has graced Broadway in productions such as David Mamet's Speed the Plow and Wendy Wasserstein's The Heidi Chronicles, earning a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play for the latter. She also featured in the West End production of Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour.
Her profile rose considerably with her portrayal of Peggy Olson, a secretary who evolves into a copywriter, in the AMC period drama Mad Men, running from 2007 to 2015. Following this, Moss earned a Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Movie/Miniseries and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film for her compelling performance as Detective Robin Griffin in the BBC miniseries Top of the Lake in 2013.
More recently, Moss has achieved significant recognition for producing and starring as June Osborne in the Hulu dystopian drama The Handmaid's Tale, a role for which she has received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series and Outstanding Drama Series, among other honors. Beyond television, Moss has also impressed audiences with her film work, including notable supporting turns in Girl, Interrupted (1999), Get Him to the Greek (2010), and Us (2019), as well as leading roles in The One I Love (2014), The Square (2017), The Invisible Man (2020), and Shirley (2020). She has collaborated with director Alex Ross Perry on three films, including Her Smell (2018). On the theatrical stage, Moss has graced Broadway in productions such as David Mamet's Speed the Plow and Wendy Wasserstein's The Heidi Chronicles, earning a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play for the latter. She also featured in the West End production of Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour.
