Elisabeth Moss

Elisabeth Singleton Moss ( born July 24, 1982 in Los Angeles ) is an American actress who is primarily known for her roles in The West Wing and Mad Men.

Biography

Moss is the daughter of British musician Ron Moss and an American blues musician. From a young age Moss was inspired by the actress Bette Davis for acting. They also went from the age of five after the ballet and later attended the prestigious School of American Ballet in New York and studied with Suzanne Farrell at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

From the early 1990s, Moss began to appear in U.S. film and television productions. A wide audience it was primarily known for her television work. So Moss took over between 1999 and 2006 in 25 episodes of the award-winning series The West Wing, the role of the president's daughter Zoey Bartlet. For the role of a rebellious and pregnant teenagers in Deborah Kampmeier's Independent Film Virgin (2003 ) received a nomination for Moss 2004 Independent Spirit Award. 2002 Moss made ​​her stage debut with the title role in Richard Nelson's Franny 's Way.

Since 2007, Moss is one of the main cast of the 1960s series Mad Men The Part of Peggy Olson, which rises in an advertising agency of the naive secretary for display copywriter earned her two Emmy and a Golden Globe nomination and a Screen Actors Guild Award (shared with the ensemble cast of Jon Hamm and January Jones ) a.

Moss married in October 2009, the Saturday Night Live actor Fred Armisen, the marriage lasted eight months.

Filmography (selection)

Theater

Awards

• Golden Globe Awards 2014