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Elisabeth Moss

Elisabeth Moss

7 films · 447 frames · top-billed in 6 · 20122020

Born 24 July 1982 · Los Angeles, California, USA

Elisabeth Singleton Moss is an American actor and producer. She is known for her work in several television dramas, earning such accolades as two Primetime Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards, which led Vulture to name her the "Queen of Peak TV".

Moss began acting in the early 1990s and first gained recognition for playing Zoey Bartlet, the youngest daughter of President Josiah Bartlet, in the NBC political drama series The West Wing (1999–2006). Wider recognition came for playing Peggy Olson, a secretary-turned-copywriter, in the AMC period drama series Mad Men (2007–2015).

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 7 films · 447 frames · top-billed in 6 · 20122020

  • Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series2017
  • Saturn Awards2020
  • Golden Nymph for Outstanding Actress in a Mini Series2014
  • Lucy Award2013

How their films are shot

Measured across 447 frames from the 7 films we hold. This is the look of the work Elisabeth takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 7 films we hold, 51% of their frames are night, 48% low key — the look of the work Elisabeth takes.

Time of day

Night51%
Day39%
Interior4%

Lighting

Low key48%
Natural40%
High key7%
Silhouette5%

Shot size

Medium39%
Closeup33%
Wide17%
Establishing6%

Camera angle

Eye level89%
High angle5%
Low angle5%

Mood

Neutral60%
Tense21%
Lonely9%
Ominous6%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 447 frames from Elisabeth Moss's 7 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.