Thandie Newton, Elisabeth Moss, and Sandra Oh are Marie Claire’s women of the hour for defining a new kind of TV heroine.
Sandra Oh won a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series, Drama, for her role as MI6 operative Eve Polastri in the thrilling BBC America series Killing Eve.
Oh was born and raised in Ottawa, the French-speaking is the middle child in her family.
Thandie Newton won an Emmy for her role as artificially intelligent brothel madam Maeve on HBO’s smash Westworld.
Elizabeth Moss plays Offred, on Hulu’s hit show The Handmaids Tale and made four movies, including the recently released Jordan Peele horror filmUs and Alex Ross Perry’s Her Smell. (The Kitchen is out August 9, and Shirley may do the film-festival circuit.)