Elisabeth Moss

Elisabeth Singleton Moss (born July 24, 1982) 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 became known for portraying Peggy Olson in the AMC series Mad Men (2007–2015) and June Osborne in the Hulu series The Handmaid's Tale (2017–2025), which she also produced. She has also starred in the BBC miniseries Top of the Lake (2013), the Apple TV+ series Shining Girls (2022) and the FX on Hulu series The Veil (2024). In film, Moss has held 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). She has also starred in three films by Alex Ross Perry: Listen Up Philip (2014), Queen of Earth (2016), and Her Smell (2018). On stage, Moss starred in the Broadway revivals of David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow (2008) and Wendy Wasserstein's The Heidi Chronicles (2015)—the latter earning her a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play nomination. She made her West End debut in a production of Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour (2011).