Elisabeth Singleton Moss (Born July 24, 1982) : Top of The Lake, Consisting of Six Episodes, Premiered at

Elisabeth Singleton Moss (born July 24, 1982)[1] is an American actor.
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".[2]
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), and Us (2019). 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.
In September 2014 it was announced that Moss would star on Broadway as Heidi
Holland in The Heidi Chronicles.[23] The play opened on March 19, 2015 at The Music
Box Theatre.[24] Though the play received some positive reviews,[24] it closed on May 3,
2015 due to low ticket sales.[25] Moss was nominated for a Tony Award for her role,
losing to Helen Mirren in The Audience.[26]
After production on Mad Men had wrapped, Moss collaborated again with Alex Ross
Perry, starring in Queen of Earth (2015), a psychological thriller opposite Katherine
Waterston and Patrick Fugit, in which she plays a mentally unstable woman who
unravels at a vacation home in the company of her close friends. She was also cast in a
supporting part in the British dystopian drama High-Rise (2015), opposite Tom
Hiddleston and Sienna Miller.[27]
Moss appeared in the Chuck Wepner biopic Chuck (2016), opposite Liev Schreiber.[28]
In 2017, she appeared in Mad to Be Normal, a biopic of the Scottish psychiatrist R. D.
Laing,[29] and co-starred in the film adaptation of Anton Chekhov's play The Seagull
alongside Saoirse Ronan, Annette Bening, and Corey Stoll.[30] The second season of
Top of the Lake, consisting of six episodes, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in
May 2017 which is set in Sydney, Australia.[31][32] That same year, Moss began playing
Offred in the Hulu series The Handmaid's Tale, for which she has received critical
acclaim and a Primetime Emmy Award for Lead Actress in a Drama Series.[33]
In 2018, Moss reunited with Alex Ross Perry for Her Smell, portraying the role of a
fictional rock star whose band breaks up over her self-destructive behavior,[34] and
appeared in The Old Man & the Gun, directed by David Lowery.[35] Both films received
positive reviews from critics.[36][37]
In 2019, Moss co-starred in Jordan Peele's psychological horror film Us alongside
Lupita Nyong'o.[38] The film is Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, receiving a 94%
rating with the consensus reading, "With Jordan Peele's second inventive, ambitious
horror film, we have seen how to beat the sophomore jinx, and it is Us."[39] Later that
year, she starred in The Kitchen, alongside Melissa McCarthy and Tiffany Haddish,
which follows three housewives who, after their mobster husbands are sent to prison,
continue to operate their business.[40] She will also star in Shirley, opposite Michael
Stuhlbarg, directed by Josephine Decker, portraying the role of author Shirley
Jackson.[41]
In 2020, Moss will star in The Invisible Man, alongside Oliver Jackson-Cohen and
Storm Reid, which is set to be released on March 13, 2020,[42] and will appear in The
French Dispatch, directed by Wes Anderson.[43]
After she met Fred Armisen in October 2008,[44] they became engaged in January
2009,[45] and married on October 25, 2009, in Long Island City, New York.[46] They
separated in June 2010,[47] and in September 2010, Moss filed for divorce,[47] which was
finalized on May 13, 2011.[48]
Half English on her father's side, Moss also holds British citizenship.[49]
Moss practices Scientology[50] and identifies as a feminist.[51] After a fan questioned

whether her role in the Hulu series The Handmaid's Tale made her think about her
involvement with the Church of Scientology, Moss defended her beliefs on Instagram,
writing that the idea that Gilead in the series and Scientology "both believe that all
outside sources are wrong or evil," as the fan describes, is "actually not true at all". She
continued, "Religious freedom and tolerance and understanding the truth and equal
rights for every race, religion and creed are extremely important to me."

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