Peggy Olson

Peggy Olson
Mad Men character
Elisabeth Moss as Peggy Olson.
First appearance	"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (1.01)
Last appearance	"Person to Person" (7.14)
Created by	Matthew Weiner
Portrayed by	Elisabeth Moss
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Nickname(s)	"Peggy"
Occupation	Copy Chief, Sterling Cooper & Partners (season 6) Former: Copy Chief, Cutler, Gleason & Chaough (season 6-present) Advertising Copywriter, Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce (seasons 4-5) Advertising Copywriter, Sterling Cooper (seasons 2-3) Secretary to Don Draper (seasons 1-2)
Family	Katherine Olson (mother) Anita Olson Respola (sister)
Children	Son (with Pete Campbell)

Margaret "Peggy" Olson is a fictional character in the AMC television series Mad Men, and is portrayed by actress Elisabeth Moss. Initially, Peggy is secretary to Don Draper (Jon Hamm), creative director of the advertising agency Sterling Cooper. Later, she is promoted to copywriter, the first female writer at the firm since World War II. She later joins Draper when he leaves Sterling Cooper to become a founding member of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. By the end of Season 4, Peggy is effectively Draper's second-in-command in the creative department. Towards the end of season five, Peggy accepts a job offer from another agency, CGC, and quits her job at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. However, following a merger between SCDP and CGC, Peggy finds herself working again with Don Draper.

Moss has received six Primetime Emmy Award nominations, a Golden Globe nomination, three Critics' Choice Television Award nominations, and has been nominated for two individual nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Awards for her performance. She has also won two Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series along with the cast of Mad Men.

Peggy Olson is initially presented as an innocent but determined young woman, eager to be a success in her job at Sterling Cooper after having graduated from the respected Miss Deaver's secretarial school. She was born on May 25, 1939, and was brought up in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York in a Roman Catholic Norwegian and Irish-American family. When she was 12 years old, her father died of a heart attack in front of her.