Mad Men

Elisabeth Moss as Peggy Olson

Elisabeth Moss made her screen debut at the age of six and has been acting steadily honing her skills ever since. She has worked with some of Hollywood's greats and has landed coveted roles in an array of film, television and theater projects for which she has received critical acclaim.

Moss currently stars on AMC's Emmy® and two-time Golden Globe® Award-winning drama series Mad Men, set in the 1960s Madison Avenue advertising world. She plays Peggy Olson, who has evolved from an ambitious yet naive secretary to a junior copywriter for ad executive Donald Draper (Jon Hamm). For her performance, Moss was individually nominated for a 2009 Screen Actors Guild® Award in the category of Lead Actress in a Drama Series.  She and her fellow cast mates won a 2009 SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.

Moss garnered rave reviews for her Broadway debut in the revival of David Mamet's Hollywood satire Speed-the-Plow. She played the female lead role of 'Karen,' a temp secretary who works for a movie producer (Jeremy Piven, followed by William H. Macy).  The Los Angeles Times' Charles McNyulty proclaimed, "Moss is a revelation, capturing not just Karen's corporate cluelessness, but also her calculating quixotic strength.”  The show opened on October 23, 2008 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre and ended its successful run on February 22, 2009.

Most recently, Moss has been cast to star alongside Jonah Hill and Russell Brand in producer Judd Apatow's Get Him to the Greek for Universal Pictures. Moss will star as 'Daphne Binks,' the sweet and beautiful girlfriend of ‘Aaron Greenberg' (Hill). Writer Nick Stoller will also direct. Production is currently underway in Los Angeles. She will also star alongside Sarah Jessica Parker and Hugh Grant in the romantic comedy Did You Hear About the Morgans?, which will be released in December. She plays the controlling executive assistant to Parker's character. The screenplay was penned by Marc Lawrence (Music and Lyrics, Two Weeks Notice), who is also directing.

Her feature credits include director Ron Howard's The Missing with Cate Blanchett and Tommy Lee Jones; director James Mangold's Girl, Interrupted with Angelina Jolie and Winona Ryder; Writer/Director Lawrence Kasdan's Mumford; A Thousand Acres opposite Michelle Pfeiffer and Michelle Williams; Bittersweet Place opposite Seymour Cassel; The Joyriders with Martin Landau;  and Imaginary Crimes with Harvey Keitel.

Moss was nominated for a 2004 Independent Spirit Award for Best Actress for her starring role in the independent feature Virgin.  She made her singing debut in Writer/Director Marc Erlbaum's comedy Buddy Gilbert Comes Alive.  She has also wrapped production on the independent films Day Zero with Elijah Wood and Chris Klein; Director Michael Almereyda's New Orleans, Mon Amour; and El Camino with Leo Fitzpatrick.

In 2006, Moss completed her seventh season on NBC's The West Wing, where she played 'Zoey Bartlet,' the daughter of the President (Martin Sheen).  She had a recurring role on ABC's Invasion, and she has guest-starred on such shows as NBC's Fear Itself, Medium, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Law & Order: Trial By Jury; and ABC's Grey's Anatomy and The Practice.

Moss' impressive repertoire of television credits also includes a co-starring role opposite Susan Sarandon in HBO Pictures' off-beat road comedy, Earthly Possessions, directed by James Lapine.  She played a young 'Ashley Judd' in the CBS mini-series The Judds: Love Will Build a Bridge, and she starred with Bette Midler in CBS's remake of Gypsy," in the role of a young 'Gypsy Rose Lee.'

She made her stage debut in 2002 in the title role of 'Franny' in Richard Nelson's Franny's Way at the Atlantic Theater, and she reprised the role for the Los Angeles premiere of the play at the acclaimed Geffen Playhouse.

Moss was born and raised in Los Angeles and trained in ballet since the age of five.  She went on to attend a number of prestigious ballet schools including the School of American Ballet in New York and also studied with Suzanne Farrell at the Kennedy Center.

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