Peyton List

Peyton List Bio

Peyton List was born on August 8, 1986. Peyton is an American actress and model best known for playing Jane Sterling on the AMC series Mad Men and Nicole Kirby on the ABC series Flashforward. Peyton currently serves as a StarPower Ambassador for Starlight Children’s Foundation, encouraging other young people to commit their time, energy and resources to help other kids and working with Starlight to brighten the lives of seriously ill children.

List was born in Baltimore, Maryland and grew up with her older sister Brittany and her parents Sherri and Douglass. She went to the Roland Park Country School in Baltimore. At the age of eight she went to a children's advertising agency in Washington to look for employment in toy advertisements and related fields and eventually made an appearance in an advertisement for Kraft Macaroni & Cheese.

As the sisters grew up, Brittany began modelling in New York, with Peyton joining her at the age of 12 to attend the School of American Ballet's summer program. During the same summer, Peyton was signed by both modelling and acting agencies (Ford Models, Innovative Artists). Soon, List was leaving school three or four times a week for modelling assignments, as she was acknowledged to be a perfect children's size 10. She was soon working on the catwalk, as well as finding work in catalogues and in children's advertising campaigns. At 15, she landed a contract role on As the World Turns playing Lucy Montgomery.

List went to the Roland Park Country School in Baltimore and studied at the School of American Ballet in New York City where she also performed on stage.

List won a minor role in Sex and the City and began to love acting. Following her appearance on the HBO series, she screen tested for the part of Lucy Montgomery on As The World Turns and was eventually offered the role.

List has also portrayed Tally Reida on NBC's Windfall and Solaris, a 15 year old model, in the CW's One Tree Hill. In 2007 she had a role in ABC's Big Shots, where she played the role of Cameron Collinsworth, daughter of a cosmetics firm CEO played by Dylan McDermott. Additionally, she starred in an episode of Without A Trace as a troubled prostitute searching for her daughter.
Her latest role is in AMC's Mad Men as Don Draper's fill-in secretary, Jane Siegel. She appeared in one episode of Monk, Mr Monk and the Magician as the magician's assistant, Tanya. She guest starred in an episode of the 2007 CBS series Moonlight, and her current TV role is as babysitter Nicole Kirby in ABC's FlashForward.
She is also a New York based Ford model and stars in the horror thriller Shuttle.