Peggy Olson (Elisabeth Moss)Peggy Olson is a secretary at successful Manhattan advertising agency Sterling Cooper who is assigned to the head of the creative department Don Draper. Although she graduated from the respected Miss Deaver's secretarial school Peggy has aspirations beyond the secretarial pool. Draper sees this ambition and talent in his new secretary and nurtures it.Peggy is a single gal in her 20s who was raised Catholic in Brooklyn and still lives and attends church there with her mother. Her father is deceased and she has an older sister who is married with children.Although she is young and green, Peggy has a sharp mind that is well-suited to advertising. Like Don she is obsessed with solving the puzzle of a product and a campaign and is sometimes dedicated to her work to the detriment of her personal life. Unlike some other women her age Peggy has clear ambition and is not particularly stylish or adept at reading social cues and does not always say what she needs to in the most graceful or accepted manner of the time. She is also a budding feminist who clearly sees and is offended by the double standards in the business world.Early in her tenure at Sterling Cooper, Peggy becomes friendly with salesman Pete Campbell.Peggy was born May 25, 1939.
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