What is the best Elisabeth Moss TV series role?

One actor, six very different women under pressure, spread across more than twenty years of prestige TV. Some of these roles won her trophies; others earned a quieter cult following.

1. 1
   Peggy Olson (Mad Men)

   The secretary-turned-copywriter whose climb through 1960s Madison Avenue earned Moss six Emmy nominations on AMC's Mad Men (2007-2015).
   1000pts
2. 2
   Zoey Bartlet (The West Wing)

   The President's youngest daughter in NBC's The West Wing (1999-2006), Moss's breakout television role.
   436pts
3. 3
   Kirby Mazrachi (Shining Girls)

   A Chicago newspaper archivist hunting the man who attacked her, in Apple TV+'s time-bending thriller Shining Girls (2022).
   369pts
4. 4
   Imogen Salter (The Veil)

   An MI6 agent escorting a suspected ISIS commander across Europe in the FX spy series The Veil (2024).
   198pts
5. 5
   June Osborne (The Handmaid's Tale)

   The enslaved handmaid Offred fighting her way out of Gilead in Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale (2017-2025), the role that won Moss an Emmy and a Golden Globe.
   198pts
6. 6
   Robin Griffin (Top of the Lake)

   A Sydney detective drawn back to small-town New Zealand in Jane Campion's Top of the Lake (2013, 2017), which won Moss a Golden Globe.
   0pts

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