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Elisabeth Moss

actor

Born: American

Elisabeth Singleton Moss is an American actor, director, and producer. She has received several accolades, including two Golden Globe Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a nomination for a Tony Award. Moss began acting in the early 1990s and received attention for playing Zoey Bartlet in the NBC series The West Wing (1999–2006). She gained wide recognition for her portrayal of Peggy Olson, a secretary-turned-copywriter, in the AMC series Mad Men (2007–2015). She then won a Golden Globe for the BBC miniseries Top of the Lake (2013) and two Primetime Emmys for starring as June Osborne in the Hulu series The Handmaid's Tale (2017–2025), which she also produced. Her other television roles include the Apple TV+ series Shining Girls (2022) and the FX on Hulu series The Veil (2024).

Moss's film credits include supporting roles in Girl, Interrupted (1999), The Seagull (2018), Us (2019), and The French Dispatch (2021), and starring roles in The One I Love (2014), The Square (2017), The Invisible Man (2020) for which she was nominated for the AACTA Award for Best Actress, and Shirley (2020).

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American actor

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    Elisabeth Moss, American actor, known for american actor, was born on 1983-07-24. Elisabeth Singleton Moss is an American actor, director, and producer.

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