Biographie

She holds American and British citizenship.

To manage her education and career, she began homeschooling, and graduated (1999).

Mother, Linda (Ekstrom), is a musician, who plays blues and jazz professionally. Father, Ron Moss, manages jazz musicians.

She is a second cousin, once removed, of Swedish musician Björn Ulvaeus, of ABBA. Elisabeth's maternal great-grandmother, Judith Linnea Nilsson, was the sister of Bjorn's maternal grandmother, Eleonora Constantia Nilsson.

Studied ballet with Suzanne Farrell at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

To go from Jeune fille interrompue (1999), where I had to cry every day, to a TV show like The West Wing (1999), where I get to laugh and joke around every day, has been a welcome relief.

The great thing about Pete and Peggy's storyline is that you barely have to do anything. There's so much there, so much history, that you can have them exchange a look and it's so loaded. So you honestly don't have to do anything.

Obviously, my life and my job in 2010 is very different from Peggy's experience in the 1960s. I exist in a world that enjoys more equality between men and women. But I don't take any of that into my performance. I just want to play the character as who she is as an individual - scene to scene.

I've heard people say, 'I love how the characters never say what they're really thinking, and I love how things are so open-ended and you just never know what's going to happen.' Do you know what I mean? So it's an opinion, you know? I've heard very few, if any criticisms of the show, and I think that it obviously is working, whatever we're doing.

I think my guideline has been to find things that inspire me. And as long as I stick to that, I don't think I'll have any problems crossing over to becoming an adult actress.