| Elisabeth Moss | ||
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| ... as | ||
| Characters Rebecca Colemar Katie Nevins | ||
| Date of birth 24 July 1982 | ||
| Place of birth Los Angeles, California | ||
| IMDb profile |
Elisabeth Singleton Moss (born July 24, 1982, Los Angeles, CA) is an actress, who has made two guest appearances in the Law & Order franchise on Law & Order: Criminal Intent in the episode "The Good" as Rebecca Colemar and Law & Order: Trial by Jury in the episode "Baby Boom" as Katie Nevins.
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) with Joshua Malina and Allison Janney. She earned wider recognition for playing Peggy Olson, a secretary-turned-copywriter, in the AMC period drama series Mad Men (2007–2015) (with Michael Gladis, Jared Harris, January Jones, Vincent Kartheiser, Maggie Siff, John Slattery, and Rich Sommer) and subsequently won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Movie/Miniseries and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film for portraying Detective Robin Griffin 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–present) (with Ann Dowd, Bradley Whitford, Samira Wiley, and Sam Jaeger), Moss won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series and Outstanding Drama Series, among other accolades.
In 2019, Moss co-starred in Jordan Peele's psychological horror film Us (alongside Lupita Nyong'o and Winston Duke). In 2020, she has the starring role in the horror-thriller film The Invisible Man, alongside Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Storm Reid, which was released on February 28, 2020, to critical acclaim.