DEAR STACY: Please give an update on the fabulous Elisabeth Moss. — bdcaran
DEAR BDCARAN: The actress who rose to fame as presidential daughter Zoey on "The West Wing" and Peggy Olson on "Mad Men" couldn't be much busier. She will star in the Hulu series adaptation of Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" slated to debut next year. Atwood is serving as a consulting producer on the series, in which Moss will play one of the few fertile women in a dystopian society, enslaved, but determined to break free and find the daughter who has been taken from her. Also upcoming, Moss has season two of her highly lauded "Top of the Lake," the New Zealand-set series in which she plays a detective. Nicole Kidman is aboard as well as Gwendoline Christie ("Game of Thrones," "Star Wars: The Force Awakens") for the second installment of the series created and written by Jane Campion and Gerard Lee. It's now filming in Australia. Also, she has several features in the pipeline: Michael Mayer's adaptation of Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull" with Saoirse Ronan and Annette Bening; "Mad to be Normal," a biopic of the Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing; and the Liev Schreiber boxing film, "The Bleeder."
DEAR STACY: Is Jimmy Fallon married? — Jesse K., Helena, Montana
DEAR JESSE: Yes, to film producer Nancy Juvonen, co-owner of Drew Barrymore's Flower Films. Jimmy met Nancy while making "Fever Pitch" with Drew. The couple started dating after getting together at a party thrown by the actress. The Fallons have two daughters, Winnie and Frances, born in 2013 and 2014 respectively, born via gestational surrogacy. "It wasn't really a secret, but my wife and I had been trying for awhile to have a baby. We've tried a bunch of different things ... anyone who's tried, knows — it's awful," he said in a "Today" interview following Winnie's birth. "So we had a surrogate."
DEAR STACY: Whatever become of Tracy Nelson? — Grace H., Allentown, Pennsylvania
DEAR GRACE: The 52-year-old actress of "Father Dowling Mysteries" fame has been living a quieter life in recent years, but still works occasionally. Known for her health/patient advocacy as a cancer survivor and for her two illustrious family trees (Nelson, as in late father Ricky, and Harmon, as in uncle Mark), she has a 15-year-old son and a 23-year-old daughter.
DEAR STACY: Were Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy married? — Jerry S., Northridge, California
DEAR JERRY: Yes — but not to each other. The 1930s singing superstars of films like "Naughty Marietta" each had long-term marriages, Eddy to Ann Denitz Franklin, and MacDonald to actor-writer-composer-decorated military pilot Gene Raymond.
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