Elisabeth Moss & Hulu Reunite For New Authorized Present A Yr After The Handmaid’s Story Ended

Elisabeth Moss did not take lengthy to return to Hulu.

Elisabeth Moss, who simply booked one other main lead function with the streamer, is a two-time Emmy winner who performed the lead function of June Osborne in Hulu’s dystopian adaptation The Handmaid’s Story. The collection, which itself gained 15 Primetime Emmys out of 32 nominations, ran for six seasons between April 2017 and Could 2025.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, Elisabeth Moss is ready to star in and govt produce the brand new Hulu authorized thriller Conviction, which is able to adapt the 2023 Jack Jordan novel of the identical identify. Additionally govt producing are Warren Littlefield (The Handmaid’s Story) and David Shore (Home).

Shore, who additionally co-created Battle Creek and developed The Good Physician, will function the showrunner for the brand new collection, through which Moss is ready to painting foremost character Neve Harper. Learn the official synopsis of Conviction beneath:

[Neve Harper] lastly has her shot at a career-making case: a high-profile homicide the place the husband is accused of killing his spouse by setting their house on fireplace. However when a mysterious stranger begins blackmailing Neve, she is pressured to compromise each authorized, ethical, and moral obligation to achieve an acquittal — or else danger her darkish secrets and techniques being uncovered.

Though Elisabeth Moss has continued to work with Hulu in a producerial capability for the reason that finish of The Handmaid’s Story due to her work on the present’s upcoming spinoff The Testaments, Conviction will mark the primary time she has returned to Hulu in entrance of the digital camera since Could 2025.

In reality, will probably be certainly one of her first occasions in entrance of the digital camera basically for the reason that ending of The Handmaid’s Story. She has to date not appeared both on the massive or small screens for the reason that finale aired, although within the meantime she has accomplished work on the Apple TV drama Imperfect Ladies, which co-stars Kerry Washington and is ready to premiere on March 18.

Moss isn’t any stranger to discovering lead roles on tv within the wake of her breakout efficiency as Peggy Olson on Mad Males, which ran from 2007 by 2015. Along with portraying June in The Handmaid’s Story, this consists of taking part in detective Robin Griffin within the thriller collection Prime of the Lake, archivist Kirby Mazrachi within the sci-fi present Shining Ladies, and MI6 agent Imogen Salter within the espionage drama The Veil.

Nevertheless, Conviction marks the primary time that Elisabeth Moss would be the lead of a authorized drama. Though the star has already confirmed her vary in quite a lot of genres, the truth that she is pushing the envelope much more together with her latest Hulu collection might assist drive curiosity because the venture goes into manufacturing.