Mad Men

Elisabeth Moss as Peggy Olson

Elisabeth Moss, best known for playing the president’s daughter on NBC’s popular show The West Wing for six seasons, had her New York stage debut in 2002 in the title role of Richard Nelson’s Franny’s Way. Soon after, she received critical acclaim for her lead role in the independent film, Virgin, in which she was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Actress in 2004.

She also starred in Ron Howard’s The Missing with Cate Blanchett and Tommy Lee Jones and Girl, Interrupted with Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie. Among other film and television credits, Moss has appeared in The Joyriders, Gypsy, Imaginary Crimes and A Thousand Acres.

Since she was five years old, Moss studied ballet in Los Angeles and she continued her studies at the School of American Ballet in New York before studying with Susan Farrell at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.