THE HANDMAID'S TALE -- The drama series, based on the award-winning, best-selling novel by Margaret Atwood, is the story of life in the dystopia of Gilead, a totalitarian society in what was formerly part of the United States. Facing environmental disasters and a plunging birthrate, Gilead is ruled by a fundamentalist regime that treats women as property of the state. As one of the few remaining fertile women, Offred (Elisabeth Moss) is a Handmaid in the Commander’s household, one of the caste of women forced into sexual servitude as a last desperate attempt to repopulate a devastated world. In this terrifying society where one wrong word could end her life, Offred navigates between Commanders, their cruel Wives, domestic Marthas, and her fellow Handmaids – where anyone could be a spy for Gilead – all with one goal: to survive and find the daughter that was taken from her. Elisabeth Moss, shown. (Photo by:Jill Greenberg/Hulu)

Elisabeth Moss will next be seen on Season 5 of the Emmy Award-winning Hulu drama series “The Handmaid’s Tale” for which she will be directing three episodes. Among the many honors and accolades she has received for her performance on the show are an Emmy and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series. She has also received the same awards in the Best Drama Series category as an Executive Producer on the show. She can currently be seen starring in “Shining Girls,” a metaphysical thriller based on Lauren Beukes’ 2013 best-selling novel which she executive produced under her Love & Squalor Pictures banner for Apple TV+ on which she also directed a pair of episodes. Moss will next begin work on the FX limited series “The Veil,” a thriller from Steven Knight (“Peaky Blinders”), which Love & Squalor will also executive produce.

On the film side, she most recently starred opposite Michael Stuhlbarg in SHIRLEY, which she also produced, from director Josephine Decker and appeared in the all-star ensemble cast of Wes Anderson’s THE FRENCH DISPATCH. She will next in the Taiki Waititi film, NEXT GOAL WINS, which also stars Michael Fassbender. She also has joined the cast, led by Oscar Isaac and Jake Gyllenhaal, in Barry Levinson’s upcoming film about the making of The Godfather, in which she will play Eleanor Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola’s wife.

Moss’s film credits include the critical and commercial hit thriller THE INVISIBLE MAN, directed by Leigh Whannell; HER SMELL (Independent Spirit Award and Gotham Award nominations), directed by Alex Ross Perry, which Moss also produced; THE KITCHEN with Melissa McCarthy and Tiffany Haddish; Jordan Peele’s blockbuster hit US, with Lupita Nyong’o; THE SEAGULL, based on the classic Chekov play, directed by Michael Mayer and starring Annette Bening and Saoirse Ronan; the Academy Award-nominated foreign film THE SQUARE, from Danish director Ruben Ostlund, which also won the Palme d’Or at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival; HIGH-RISE, directed by Ben Wheatley also starring Tom Hiddleston; TRUTH, with Cate Blanchett and Robert Redford; QUEEN OF EARTH (which she produced), written and directed by Alex Ross Perry; THE ONE I LOVE, in which she starred with Mark Duplass; LISTEN UP PHILIP, directed by Alex Ross Perry and starring Jason Schwartzman; plus THE OLD MAN AND THE GUN, MAD TO BE NORMAL, TOKYO PROJECT, CHUCK, ON THE ROAD, GET HIM TO THE GREEK, THE MISSING, GIRL INTERRUPTED, and VIRGIN (Independent Spirit Award nomination).

Her production company, Love & Squalor Pictures, is in development on several additional projects including the feature MRS. MARCH, a psychological thriller also with Blumhouse. Love & Squalor also executive produced HIVE from writer/director Blerta Basholli which Kosovo’s entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards. Additionally, Moss produced the critically acclaimed feature film LIGHT FROM LIGHT, starring Marin Ireland and Jim Gaffigan, which made its premiere at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.

Moss’s additional television credits include Jane Campion’s highly-acclaimed miniseries “Top of the Lake,” for which she received Golden Globe and Critics Choice TV Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Movie or Miniseries as well as Emmy and SAG Award nominations in the same category, and its follow-up “Top of the Lake: China Girl”; the award-winning series “Mad Men,” for which her performance as ‘Peggy Olson’ earned her six Emmy Award nominations, a Golden Globe nomination, and two Screen Actors Guild Award nominations; and Aaron Sorkin’s critically-praised and award-winning drama, “The West Wing,” on which she played ‘Zoey Bartlett,’ daughter to Martin Sheen’s president.

Moss starred on Broadway in The Heidi Chronicles, a Broadway revival of Wendy Wassterstein’s Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning play, for which Moss’s performance as the title character earned her Tony nomination, Drama League and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations. Moss’s additional theater credits include The Children’s Hour in London’s West End opposite Keira Knightley, the Broadway revival of David Mamet’s Speed the Plow opposite William H Macy and her New York theater debut at the Atlantic Theater Company in Franny’s Way.

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