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Elisabeth Moss Bio

Elisabeth Singleton Moss was born on July 24, 1982. Moss is an American actress. Notable roles include first daughter Zoey Bartlet on the NBC television series The West Wing (1999–2006), and secretary turned copy writer Peggy Olson on the AMC original series Mad Men (2007–present). Born to a British father and an American mother, Moss holds dual citizenship.

Moss was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Ron Moss, a record company owner and music manager, and a musician mother. Moss began acting in 1990 when she appeared in the television film Bar Girls. She also did commercials for Excedrin and Secret deodorant. In 1992 through 1995 Moss appeared in seven episodes of the TV series Picket Fences as Cynthia Parks. In 1993, Moss provided the voice of Michelle in the animated film Once Upon a Forest. That same year, she also appeared in the television remake of Gypsy which starred Bette Midler. In 1994, Moss played Harvey Keitel's younger daughter in Imaginary Crimes directed by Anthony Drazan. In 1995 Moss appeared in the remake of the Disney film Escape to Witch Mountain. Also in 1995, she appeared as a young Ashley Judd in the made-for-TV biopic Love Can Build A Bridge, about the life and career of mother and daughter country duo The Judds. From 1999 to 2006 she played Zoey Bartlet in 25 episodes of The West Wing. In 1999, she had a supporting role as a patient in a mental institution in Girl, Interrupted, opposite Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie. That same year, she had a small role as Katie Brockett in the movie Mumford opposite Loren Dean, where she played the daughter of a woman with a shopping addiction. Moss went on to do Heart of America in 2004 (along with three other films) before making the movie Virgin, a breakthrough performance for which she earned a 2004 Independent Spirit Award nomination. The award went to Charlize Theron. She also had a role in the 2005-06 sci-fi series Invasion.

Moss was cast in Day Zero, with Elijah Wood and Chris Klein and appeared in the February 22, 2007 episode (season 3, episode 19) of Grey's Anatomy as Nina Rogerson, the daughter of a patient ("My Favorite Mistake"). Since July 2007, she has played Peggy Olson on the Emmy, Golden Globe, and SAG award-winning dramatic series Mad Men. The series revolves around a fictional Madison Avenue advertising agency, Sterling Cooper, during 1960-1962. Throughout Season One, her character unknowingly becomes pregnant. Moss did not gain any weight for the role, however, but wore increasingly bigger padding and makeup artists used prosthetics to make her face and neck appear fat and swollen. Her character is central to the many plot twists on this series. In 2009, she was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.

Since October 2008, she has appeared on Broadway in the play Speed-the-Plow by David Mamet. She also starred in the 2008 horror film The Attic from Mary Lambert, director of Pet Sematary, along with Jason Lewis, Tom Malloy, Catherine Mary Stewart, and John Savage.

Currently in Los Angeles filming the third season of Mad Men, she also appeared in Did You Hear About the Morgans?, in which she played Sarah Jessica Parker's assistant, opposite Hugh Grant.

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Charlotte Ayanna Bio

Charlotte Ayanna was born Charlotte Lopez on September 25, 1976. Charlotte is an American actress.

Ayanna was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, but moved to Vermont at an early age. She had a troubled childhood, spending thirteen years in foster homes after her mother, Emma, was judged to be mentally unfit to look after her and her two siblings. In 1994, at age 17, she was adopted into a foster home. She has since become a spokeswoman for foster children.

She changed her last name to Ayanna when she learned that Lopez was the last name of her maternal grandfather, who she discovered abandoned her mother.

Her first national exposure was in 1993, when she became Miss Teen USA. Charlotte co-authored a book titled Lost in the System, published in 1996, detailing her childhood and subsequent rise to Miss Teen USA. She later changed her last name to "Ayanna", meaning "blessed" in Cherokee. Following her pageant victory, she made guest appearances on television shows including Weird Science and Entourage. She also appeared in the music video for fellow Puerto Rican Ricky Martín's hit She's All I Ever Had.

Her film roles include Jawbreaker (1999), The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999), Dancing at the Blue Iguana (2000) (in which she played a stripper and performed several nude dance routines), Kate & Leopold (2001), Training Day (as Ethan Hawke's wife), and Love the Hard Way (2003) with Adrien Brody. She also starred with Sean Patrick Flanery as the sexy vampiress in the horror-made-for-DVD movie The Insatiable (2006).