Elisabeth Moss
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Elisabeth Moss (born October 15, 1983) is an American actress best known for her portrayal of first daughter Zoey Bartlet on the television serial drama The West Wing. She had the role of Christina on the television serial drama Invasion. She holds a major supporting role in the AMC original series Mad Men.
Moss has also appeared in several commercials, including an ad for Secret brand deodorant and one for Excedrin Migraine.
Moss is a member of the Church of Scientology.[1]
[edit] Acting
Elisabeth Moss began acting in 1990 when she starred as Robin in the television movie Bad Girls. She then filmed numerous other films. In 1993, Moss provided the voice of Michelle in the animated film Once Upon a Forest. That same year, she also appeared in the 1993 television remake of Gypsy which starred Bette Midler. In 1995 Moss appeared in the remake of the Disney film Escape to Witch Mountain. Then in 1999, she had a supporting role (as Polly the burn victim) in Girl, Interrupted, opposite Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie. She went on to do Heart of America in 2004 (worst example yet of the work of "cinematic train wreck" Uwe Boll "Germany's answer to Ed Wood"),[2] along with three other films, before making Virgin, a breakthrough performance for which she earned an Independent Spirit Award nomination , although she lost that award to Charlize Theron.
Moss recently completed filming Day Zero, with Elijah Wood and Chris Klein, and is currently filming roles in New Orleans Monamour, The Pack, and The Attic, slated for a 2007 release. She appeared in the February 22, 2007 episode (season 3, episode 19) of Grey's Anatomy as Nina Rogerson, the daughter of a patient ("My Favorite Mistake"). Moss was named in July 2007 to be part of the new show on AMC called Mad Men, a drama based on the activities of a Madison Avenue advertising agency in 1960.
[edit] References
- ^ "Big News from the Small Screen", 2004 article from the Church's Celebrity Centre listing Church members with current TV series
- ^ Craddock, Jim, ed. VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever 2007 (Detroit: Thompson Gale, 2006), pp.389 "Heart of America" & 123 "Blackwoods".
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