Elisabeth Moss

At 41 years old, Elisabeth Moss has this physical status:

Elisabeth Singleton Moss (born July 24, 1982) is an American actor.

Moss began acting in television dramas in the early 1990s, winning two Primetime Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards, prompting Vulture to award her the title "Queen of Peak TV" for her role.

In the AMC period drama series Mad Men (2007–2015), Peggy Olson, a secretary-turned-copywriter, received more attention.

In the BBC miniseries or Television Film For playing a detective in the BBC miniseries or Television Film in 2013-2004, she received 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) (2017–present). Moss appeared in Girl, Interrupted (1999), Virgin (2003), The One I Love (2014), The Seagull (2018), The Seagull (2018), and Us (2019).

Vanessa Mamet's Speed the Plow and Wendy Wasserstein's The Heidi Chronicles are two of her theatre performances.

She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for the second time.

She has appeared in Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour production in the West End.

Early life

Moss was born in Los Angeles, California, the niece of Ronald Charles Moss, who is British, and Linda Moss (née Ekstrom), an American of part-Swedish descent. Both of Moss' parents are musicians; her mother plays jazz and blues harmonica professionally. Moss has only one younger brother. She was born a Scientologist.

Moss began with the intention of being a professional dancer. She went to New York City to study ballet at the School of American Ballet, after which she worked with Suzanne Farrell at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., but started doing acting roles as well. She began homeschooling in 1999 and became a member of the Royal Society for Women and Career.

Personal life

Moss holds both British and American citizenship.

She first met Fred Armisen in October 2008 and married him in January 2009 in Long Island City, New York, on October 25, 2009. Moss filed for divorce in September 2010, which was finalized on May 13, 2011.

Moss adheres to Scientology and describes himself as a feminist. Moss defended her views on Instagram after a fan asked whether her involvement in the Hulu series The Handmaid's Tale made her reconsider her belief in Scientology, saying that "all outside sources are inaccurate or harmful," as the fan explained. "Religious freedom and tolerance, as well as knowing the truth and equality for all races, faith, and creed are extremely important to me," she continued.

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Career

Moss' first screen appearance came in 1990, when she appeared in the NBC miniseries Lucky/Chances. Cynthia Parks appeared in seven episodes of the television series Picket Fences from 1992 to 1995. Holly DeCarlo, a central character in the television series Frosty Returns (1992) and of Michelle in the animated film Once Upon a Forest (1993), was a woman. She appeared in the television version of the 1993 film Gypsy and portrayed Harvey Keitel's younger daughter in the film Imaginary Crimes (1994). She appeared in the Walt Disney Pictures film Escape to Witch Mountain (1995) and appeared as a young Ashley Judd in the TV-movie biopic Love Can Build a Bridge (1995). She appeared in Separate Lives (1995) opposite Jim Belushi and Linda Hamilton, as well as a minor role in the black comedy The Last Supper (1995). She did more voice work for the animated film Freakazoid! Charlie Brown, and the television film It's Spring Training. (1996).

Moss began playing Zoey Bartlet (Martin Sheen) and First Lady Abbey Bartlet (Stockard Channing) in the White House television drama The West Wing in 1999, playing the daughter of President Josiah Bartlet (Martin Sheen) and First Lady Abbey Bartlet (Stockard Channing); she portrayed the role until the series's conclusion in 2006. "Aaron Sorkin [Moss] made [Moss] the protagonist of the show's thrilling fourth season finale, where he literally engineered the most insane cliffhanger possible, according to a retrospective on the series. It required Zoey to be a pain with her new French boyfriend, but Moss made her relatable even though the plot demanded otherwise."

In 1999, she played a supporting role in a mental hospital in James Mangold's Girl, Interrupted, opposite Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie, and a small role in the film Anywhere but Here. She appeared in Mumford (1999), playing the daughter of a woman with a shopping addiction.

Moss appeared in a Excedrin commercial in 2002 in which she straight addressed the medication's benefits to migraine sufferers. Moss gained residual income as she continued to fail to make it as an actor as a performer.

In 2004, Moss appeared in Heart of America and three other films. That year, she was nominated for a 2004 Independent Spirit Award. In Ron Howard's Western thriller The Missing (2003), Moss appeared as a supporting cast member.

Moss appeared on television again in 2005 and 2006, including Patricia Arquette, as the series Medium. She appeared in Mary Lambert's 2007 horror film The Attic, the radical drama Day Zero (2007), and the 2008 drama El camino.

Peggy Olson, secretary-turned-copywriter, appeared in the AMC dramatic series Mad Men in 2006. Moss received five Emmy awards for her role as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series between 2009 and 2015. Emmy was nominated for the Outstanding Support Actress Emmy in 2010. Moss recalled: "I auditioned [for the role]. There were scripts for two pilots that were really good, and Mad Men was one of them."

Moss made her Broadway debut in October 2008, playing Karen in David Mamet's 20th Anniversary revival of Speed-the-Plow. She appeared in the comedy film Did You Hear About the Morgans for a short time. Jessica Parker's assistant appeared in the comedy Get Him to the Greek (2010) opposite Jonah Hill.

Moss made her West End debut in Lillian Hellman's play The Children's Hour, opposite Keira Knightley. On January 22, 2011, the play opened at The Comedy Theatre in London. Galatea Dunkel was the star of an independent drama On the Road in 2012, based on Jack Kerouac's book of the same name.

In the 2013 Sundance Channel miniseries Top of the Lake, a co-production between the Sundance Channel, the UK's BBC Two, and Australia's UK television, actress Jane Campion wrote and directed by Oscar-winning artist Robin Griffin. Moss received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film for her role. Moss appeared in the independent film Listen Up Philip (2014), her first film with writer-director Alex Ross Perry in 2014. She appeared in Charlie McDowell's The One I Love (2014) with Mark Duplass.

In September 2014, it was announced that Moss would appear in The Heidi Chronicles as Heidi Holland. At The Music Box Theatre on March 19, 2015. Despite receiving some glowing reviews, the play came to a conclusion on May 3, 2015, owing to poor ticket sales. Moss was nominated for a Tony Award for her role. Moss worked with Alex Ross Perry, a psychological thriller starring Katherine Waterston and Patrick Fugit, unraveling at a vacation home with her close friends after the show Mad Men came to an end. In the British dystopian drama High-Rise (2015), she appeared alongside Tom Hiddleston and Sienna Miller.

In Chuck Wepner's Chuck Wepner biopic Chuck (2016), opposite Liev Schreiber, Moss appeared in the Chuck Wepner biopic Chuck (2016). Mad to Be Normal, a biopic of Scottish psychiatrist R.D., appeared in 2017. Laing, who co-starred in Anton Chekhov's film adaptation The Seagull starring Saoirse Ronan, Annette Bening, and Corey Stoll. The second season of Top of the Lake, a six-part series, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2017 in Sydney, Australia. Moss began playing June Osbourne/Offred in the Hulu film The Handmaid's Tale in which she has received critical acclaim and a Primetime Emmy Award for Leading Actress in a Drama Series in the same year.

Moss appeared in a short film titled "On the Nature of Daylight" by British composer Max Richter from his album The Blue Notebooks, in 2018.

Moss reunited with Alex Ross Perry for Her Smell in 2018, portraying a fictional rock star whose bandmates are dissatisfied with her self-destructive behavior, and appeared in David Lowery's Old Man & the Gun, a film. Both films received rave reviews from critics. Moss co-starred in Jordan Peele's psychological thriller film Us with Lupita Nyong'o in 2019. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film is rated Fresh. Melissa McCarthy and Tiffany Haddish appeared in The Kitchen, a series of three housewives who, after their mobster husbands were sent to prison, continue to operate their company.

In 2020, Moss appeared in Shirley, opposite Michael Stuhlbarg and directed by Josephine Decker, depicting author Shirley Jackson's role in the Sundance Film Festival. She appeared in The Invisible Man, the horror-thriller film starring Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Storm Reid, which was released on February 28, 2020 to critical acclaim. Moss appeared in The French war, directed by Wes Anderson, and Next Goal Wins, directed by Taika Waititi, in 2021.

Moss Production Company Love & Squalor Pictures was founded in 2020, and Moss also launched a production company Love & Squalor Pictures. Daina Reid will star and produce Run Rabbit Run next week.

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