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With the premiere of Hulu's timely new ******
The Handmaid's Tale this week,
star Elisabeth Moss is
About to be
Back in
Your mind, and **t just on
Your TV.
Elisabeth might be best k**wn for her portrayal of '60s career badass Peggy Olson on
Mad Men, but she's one of those actors who has always kind of flown under the radar. With her profile rising and a buzzy new show, we figured it was high time to talk
About how fascinating she actually is.
She's TV's most famous first daughter.
You may see
Elisabeth and think Peggy, but her big break was on a**ther TV show. She played
The West Wing's Zoey Bartlet, daughter of the president, from 1999 to 2006. Other **table roles from her early years? She guested on a 2007 episode of
Grey's Anatomy and played a young Ashley Judd in the 1995 mini******
Naomi & Wy**nna: Love Can Build a Bridge.
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She goes by "Lizzie."
The
down-to-earth nickname seems to come up in interviews with the star all the time.
She was married to Fred Armisen.
After
Elisabeth popped up in a skit on
Saturday Night Live when
Mad Men costar Jon Hamm was hosting in 2008, she met cast member Fred Armisen. Sparks flew, they got engaged four months later, then married in October 2009 - just a year after meeting. The marriage didn't last long, and the two separated in September 2010 with
Elisabeth famously giving
an interview that painted Fred in an unflattering light. She told
Page Six Magazine, "One of the greatest
Things I heard someone say
About him is, 'He's so great at doing impersonations. But the greatest impersonation he does is
That of a **rmal person.' To me
That sums it up."
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She's a Scientologist.
The actress is a member of the controversial religion, having been raised as a Scientologist since childhood. She prefers **t to discuss it publicly, however, calling it "private, off limits" in
a 2014 interview about the ending of Mad Men with
Vulture, but she ack**wledged the public's fascination: "I think if there was something
That I didn't k**w and didn't understand, I would probably feel as opinionated. You k**w how you're opinionated
About when someone breaks up? Celebrities break up and you just feel like you k**w what happened?"
She studied ballet.
Elisabeth, who grew up with musician parents, had always been into music since she was a child, and by extension, it influenced her
to become a young ballerina. "I was raised with a lot of classical music. I loved ballet. I was a bun head for 10 years," she told
The Guardian.
She's Never won an Emmy.
This one is particularly hard to believe if you've ever caught
Elisabeth in action. But despite being **minated seven times for an Emmy - six times for
Mad Men and once for the mini******
Top of the Lake (she was actually **minated for the two different titles in the same year) - she's still
Never won. We'd bet everything
That one is in her future, though, based on
The Handmaid's Tale and the upcoming
second season of Top of the Lake. For what it's worth, she did win the Golden Globe for the mini****** in 2014.
Keeping it classy as usual at the 2014 Golden Globes. #tbt #topofthelake
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