TV

Here is a list of Elisabeth’s TV Show roles, including shows she starred in and shows she was a guest star or had a recurring role.

Starring

The Handmaid's Tale

Role: June/Offred
Gender: Drama, Sci-Fi
Seasons: 2 – Season 3 is expected to air in 2019.
Running since: 2017
Created by: Bruce Miller
Based on the book by: Margareth Atwood
Other cast: Max Minghella, Yvonne Strahovski, Joseph Fiennes, Ann Dowd, Amanda Brugel, Alexis Bledel, Samira Wiley

Plot:

Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.


Top of the Lake

Role: Robin Griffin
Gender: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Seasons: 2
Running since: 2013 (Season 1), 2017 (Season 2)
Created by: Jane Campion, Gerard Lee
Other cast season 1: David Wenham, Thomas M. Wright, Jacqueline Joe, Peter Mullan, Holly Hunter
Other cast season 2: Nicole Kidman, Gwendoline Christie, Alice Englert, Ewen Leslie

Plot for Season 1:

Obsessed with the disappearance of a 12-year-old pregnant girl near a freezing lake in New Zealand, a brave detective will find herself up against small-town secrets and a side of herself that was meticulously kept at bay.

Plot for Season 2:

In the wake of New Zealand’s devastating events, troubled Detective Robin returns to Sydney for a fresh start, however, the wounds of the past are deep and angry, moreover, a suitcase with a rather appalling content summons dark memories.


Mad Men

Role: Peggy Olson
Gender: Drama
Seasons: 7
Running from: 2007-2015
Created by: Matthew Weiner
Other cast: Jon Hamm, Vincent Kartheiser, January Jones, Christina Hendricks, John Slattery

Plot

A drama about one of New York’s most prestigious ad agencies at the beginning of the 1960s, focusing on one of the firm’s most mysterious but extremely talented ad executives, Donald Draper.


Recurring Roles

The West Wing

Role: Zoey Bartlet
Gender: Drama
Seasons: 7
Running from: 1999-2006
Created by: Aaron Sorkin
Other cast: Martin Sheen, Allison Janney, Bradley Whitford, Rob Lowe, John Spencer

Plot

Inside the lives of staffers in the West Wing of the White House.


Guest Roles

Mercy

Role: Lucy Morton
Episode: 1×06 – The Last Thing I Said Was
Aired on: November 4, 2009
Photos: Link to Gallery.


Fear, Itself

Role: Danny Bannerman
Episode: 1×05 – Eater
Aired on: July 3, 2008
Photos: Link to Gallery.


Ghost Whisperer

Role: Nikki Drake
Episode: 3×07 – Unhappy Medium
Aired on: November 9, 2007
Photos: Link to Gallery.


Medium

Role: Jennie / Haley Heffernan
Episode: 3×19 – No One To Watch Over Me
Aired on: April 25, 2007
Photos: Link to Gallery.


Grey’s Anatomy

Role: Nina Rogerson
Episode: 3×19
Aired on: March 22, 2007
Photos: Link to Gallery.


Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Role: Rebecca Colemar
Episode: 5×22 – The Good
Aired on: May 14, 2006
Photos: Link to Gallery.


Invasion

Role: Christina
Episodes: 1×08, 1×12, 1×15, 1×16, 1×17
Aired on: 2005-2006
Photos: Link to Gallery.