Elisabeth Moss
Acting • Born 1982-07-24
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.
Filmography
118 credits
Girl, Interrupted
Movie • 1999
Polly
Virgin
Movie • 2003
Jessie Reynolds
Mumford
Movie • 1999
Katie Brockett
Did You Hear About the Morgans?
Movie • 2009
Jackie Drake
Once Upon a Forest
Movie • 1993
Michelle (voice)
Get Him to the Greek
Movie • 2010
Daphne Binks
The Attic
Movie • 2006
Emma Callan
Frosty Returns
Movie • 1993
Holly (voice)
Green Lantern: Emerald Knights
Movie • 2011
Arisia Rrab (voice)
A Thousand Acres
Movie • 1997
Linda
Amber Light
Movie
Shell
Movie • 2025
Samantha Lake
Bittersweet Place
Movie • 2005
Paulie Schaffer
Spirit
Movie • 2001
Kelly O'Conner
On the Road
Movie • 2012
Galatea Dunkel / Helen Hinkle
Imaginary Crimes
Movie • 1994
Greta
Heart of America
Movie • 2003
Robin Walters
El Camino
Movie • 2008
Lily
Separate Lives
Movie • 1995
Ronni Beckwith
A Buddy Story
Movie • 2010
Susan
The Joyriders
Movie • 1999
Jodi
Bar Girls
Movie • 1990
Robin
West of Here
Movie • 2002
Cherise
Listen Up Philip
Movie • 2014
Ashley
Escape to Witch Mountain
Movie • 1995
Anna
The One I Love
Movie • 2014
Sophie
Day Zero
Movie • 2007
Patricia
They Never Found Her
Movie • 2007
Anna
Earthly Possessions
Movie • 1999
Mindy
High-Rise
Movie • 2015
Helen Wilder
New Orleans, Mon Amour
Movie • 2008
Hyde
Queen of Earth
Movie • 2015
Catherine Hewitt
Truth
Movie • 2015
Lucy Scott
From the Bottom of the Lake
Movie • 2013
herself
Honored
Movie • 2007
Katie
Meadowland
Movie • 2015
Shannon
The Seagull
Movie • 2018
Masha
The Missing
Movie • 2003
Anne
Last Night at the Lobster
Movie
Mad to Be Normal
Movie • 2017
Angie Wood
Chuck
Movie • 2017
Phyllis Wepner
Recycle Rex
Movie • 1993
Turbo (voice)
The Free World
Movie • 2016
Doris Long
Director’s Journal: Making The Invisible Man
Movie • 2020
Self
Anywhere but Here
Movie • 1999
Rachel
The Square
Movie • 2017
Anne
Darling Companion
Movie • 2012
Grace
Midnight's Child
Movie • 1992
Christina Cowan
The Last Supper
Movie • 1995
Jenny Tyler
It's Spring Training, Charlie Brown!
Movie • 1996
Girl Player (voice)
Gypsy
Movie • 1993
'Baby' Louise Hovick
Naomi & Wynonna: Love Can Build a Bridge
Movie • 1995
Early Teen Ashley Judd
Suburban Commando
Movie • 1991
Little Girl
Tokyo Project
Movie • 2017
Claire
The Kitchen
Movie • 2019
Claire Walsh
Her Smell
Movie • 2019
Becky Something
The Pack
Movie • 2011
Diana Whelan
Shirley
Movie • 2020
Shirley Jackson
The Old Man & the Gun
Movie • 2018
Dorothy
Light of My Life
Movie • 2019
Mom
Us
Movie • 2019
Kitty Tyler / Dahlia
The Invisible Man
Movie • 2020
Cecilia Kass
Temptation
Movie • 2003
Wind/Morgan
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
Movie • 2021
Alumna
Next Goal Wins
Movie • 2023
Gail
Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power
Movie • 2019
Self - Actress
A Letter from Rose Kennedy
Movie
Rosemary Kennedy
Prison Stories: Women on the Inside
Movie • 1991
Little Molly
Mrs. March
Movie
She Will Rise
Movie
Katie Hill
A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote
Movie • 2020
Self
On the Nature of Daylight
Movie • 2018
Angelmaker
Movie • 1998
Little Turcott
The Invisible Man 2
Movie
Cecilia Kass
Mad Men
TV • 2007
Peggy Olson
Ghost Whisperer
TV • 2005
Nikki Drake
Fear Itself
TV • 2008
Danny Bannerman
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
TV • 1988
Self - Guest
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
TV • 2005
Katie Nevins
Batman: The Animated Series
TV • 1992
Kimmy Ventrix (voice)
Top of the Lake
TV • 2013
Det. Robin Griffin
The Daily Show
TV • 1996
Self
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
TV • 2005
Self
Grey's Anatomy
TV • 2005
Nina Rogerson
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV • 2014
Self
Freakazoid!
TV • 1995
Kathy (voice)
The Late Late Show with James Corden
TV • 2015
Self - Guest
The Handmaid's Tale
TV • 2017
June Osborne / Offred / Ofjoseph
Chelsea
TV • 2016
Self
Project Runway
TV • 2004
Self - Guest Judge
The West Wing
TV • 1999
Zoey Bartlet
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV • 2014
Self
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV • 2019
Self
Lucky Chances
TV • 1990
Lucky - Age 6
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
TV • 2014
Self
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
TV • 2015
Self
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
TV • 2009
Self - Guest
The Veil
TV • 2024
Imogen Salter
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV • 2003
Self
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Cameo (uncredited)
The View
TV • 1997
Self - Guest
The View
TV • 1997
Self
Imperfect Women
TV • 2026
Mary
The Jennifer Hudson Show
TV • 2022
Self
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
TV • 2001
Rebecca Colemar
The Simpsons
TV • 1989
Gretchen (voice)
Invasion
TV • 2005
Christina
Off Camera with Sam Jones
TV • 2014
Self
Fever
TV
Mary Mallon
Shining Girls
TV • 2022
Kirby Mazrachi
El hormiguero
TV • 2006
Self - Guest
Medium
TV • 2005
Jennie / Haley Heffernan
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Audience Member
The Practice
TV • 1997
Jessica Palmer
Picket Fences
TV • 1992
Cynthia Parks
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV • 2003
Self - Guest
MTV Movie & TV Awards
TV • 1992
Self - Presenter
Hollywood Squares
TV • 1998
Self - Panelist