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Elisabeth Moss

ACTOR · BORN 1982

Elisabeth Moss

Born
24 July 1982
Known for
Sunset Boulevard (1950), The One I Love (2014), High-Rise (2015), Top of the Lake (2013)

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Elisabeth Moss (born 24 July 1982) is an actor best known for Sunset Boulevard, The One I Love and High-Rise.

8 Interesting Facts About Elisabeth Moss

Interesting Facts (4)

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    While shooting The Veil in Istanbul, Elisabeth Moss fractured a vertebra in her back; even so, she said she would want to come back for a second season if the series were renewed.

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    Elisabeth Moss's mainstream film breakthrough came in 1999, when she played a burn victim in a psychiatric hospital in Girl, Interrupted.

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    When she started Mad Men, Moss said, she had given feminism little thought, calling herself a modern girl of 23 in the early 2000s.

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  4. #004

    Moss feels a connection to Peggy Olson because the character was neither a protestor nor a member of any feminist group; she simply lived second-wave feminism.

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Production Story (1)

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    Moss sees parallels between High-Rise, adapted from J. G. Ballard's dystopian novel, and Britain's class system.

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Characters & Cast (1)

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    Elisabeth Moss went through two auditions before landing the role of Peggy Olson on Mad Men.

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Career & Awards (1)

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    Elisabeth Moss described studying feminism for the Broadway production of The Heidi Chronicles as an accidental education.

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Life & Family (1)

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    Moss has appeared in two projects built around a man in an invisible suit. The first was the Batman: The Animated Series (1992) episode See No Evil (1993), in which she voiced a young girl whose estranged father uses an invisible suit to get close to her; the second is The Invisible Man (2020).

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