HuluElisabeth Moss won the Emmy Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series on Sunday night for her performance as Offred, or June Osborne, on Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, a series that garnered critical and popular attention--as well as 13 Emmy nominations--for its political relevance. This was Moss’ seventh Emmy nomination, having earned six for her role as Mad Men’s Peggy Olson. On The Handmaid’s Tale, Moss plays the intense role of Offred, a sex servant and one of few fertile women left in an authoritarian and fundamentalist patriarchal society; she also served as a producer on the show. “Every scene was approached with an attitude of not holding back, no fear, no dumbing down or making it easier to watch,” Moss told The Hollywood Reporter. “That extra level that it's gone as far as becoming a part of the conversation is something we couldn't have anticipated.

Source: Forbes September 18, 2017 02:48 UTC