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Angela Moss is a close friend of Elliot Alderson. She is portrayed by Portia Doubleday.
Background
Angela was born in early February 1988 in New Jersey to Donald and Jane Moss. She is an only child. Her mother died as a result of the Washington Township leak of 1993. In the aftermath, she became friends with Elliot and Darlene.
Elliot and she were close friends. They shared a love for the book From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. They once tried to visit NYC as young kids. Angela fondly remembers wanting to be like Claudia Kincaid, the story's adventurous heroine. She also remembers the Aldersons subjecting her to their favorite movie, The Careful Massacre of the Bourgeoisie, every Halloween.
Angela attended college, for which she is thousands of dollars in debt. She was emplyed by Allsafe Cybersecurity as an account executive in charge of E Corp's security contract. In late 2014, she recommended the then unemplyed Elliot to her boss Gideon Goddard.
She has stated that she occasionally smokes weed with Elliot. At the start of 2015, she lives with her boyfriend Ollie Parker in New York City. She personally has a MacBook and uses OS X.
2015
Season 1
Angela has a birthday party at a bar during the first week of February. She is disappointed when Elliot doesn't show up. When fsociety attack E Corp's servers, she calls Elliot in the middle of the night to help Lloyd, the engineer on call. The day after, Angela wants to smoke weed and watch Elliot's favorite movie, Back to the Future, but is surprised by the sight of a naked woman, Shayla, in his bed. She is supportive of the relationship and leaves.
When E Corp meets with Allsafe in the aftermath, Terry Colby blames her and has her removed from the account. She doesn't talk to Elliot for 3 weeks, telling him that she didn't need to be defended during the meeting. They hug, just as news is breaking of Colby's arrest.
In March, Angela and Ollie attend a dinner with Gideon, his boyfriend, Lloyd, Elliot and his new girlfriend Shayla. Around the same time, Angela and Ollie meet a man on the street selling mixtapes. Ollie takes a CD, but soon realizes it has infected his computer. The perpetrator threatens to expose his infidelity in order to infect Allsafe. Ollie comes clean to Angela about the situation. She realizes her and her father's bank account have been compromised.
Worrying about the dilemma, Angela spends a night with Shayla on ecstasy. Shayla convinces her to worry about herself first before making out with her. The next morning, she sabotages Allsafe using Ollie's work ID and computer. After breaking up with Ollie, she moves back to her father's house in New Jersey. She discovers that he is deeply in debt from her mother's old medical bills.
In April, Angela meets with lawyers in an attempt to reopen her toxic waste lawsuit against E Corp – they tell her it is impossible to win without testimony from someone on the inside. She approaches Terry Colby, now under house arrest, and attempts to make a deal: she will lie and say she broke chain of custody with the .dat file that incriminated him, if in exchange, Colby will testify that E Corp covered up the toxic waste leak in 1993. When he rudely dismisses her, she warns him of the life without respect, claiming firsthand experience. Gideon warns Angela that her plan will put Allsafe out of business. Colby agrees to her proposition and tells her of the circumstances of the day he and two other executives decided the Washington Township leak was to be covered up.
In early May, Angela attends a 7 am ballet class with Darlene in NYC after taking 2 hours of NJ transit. The next day, Darlene explains that Elliot has run away, although the pair can't find him in the city. When Angela returns home, her father says he saw Darlene around town. She finds her at the old Alderson house and they eventually find Elliot at his father's grave. She gives him a hug at the train station, as her friends return to NYC. When she goes home, Angela encounters Colby, who offers her a job and recommendation at E Corp.
Three days after the 5/9 hack, Angela is working at E Corp as an assistant. She is in the room when James Plouffe, the EVP of Technology, kills himself during a televised interview. His blood gets on her shoes when she was approaching to calm him down. She later yells at a shoe salesman who insults her for working at E Corp.
In the aftermath of the incident, she strikes up a relationship with the CEO of E Corp Philip Price.
Season 2
A month after the 5/9 hack, Angela is working in the PR department for E Corp. She is not liked by one co-worker and is effective in negotiating with TV networks looking to ask E Corp questions. Angela appears content, now living in an expensive NY apartment, and ignores the lawsuit she was working on. Price invites her to dinner with two executives, only to reveal afterwards that they were the men in the room with Colby who covered up the 1993 leak.
Angela talks to Price assuming he wants her to help settle the class action lawsuit over the toxic leak after she turns in the other executives, but he rebuffs her theory. She meets with Darlene, who wants her help in hacking the FBI who have set up base at the E Corp building. After her ex-boyfriend Ollie sells her out to the FBI, Angela decides to aid with the hack.
At the new fsociety base, Angela begins studying how to hack under Mobley. Cisco brings equipment needed for the hack and Angela stares at him, likely recognizing him as the man who gave Ollie the infected CD. With Darlene and Mobley in her ear, Angela is able to do her part of the mission. However, there were some hiccups in an FBI agent, who she flirted her way past, and Dominique DiPierro, the FBI agent leading the investigation into fsociety. Dom immediately finds her suspicious, even more so when she learns the security footage has been deleted.
Dom knows Angela's history and is suspicious, but can't pin anything on her, even when the FBI is hacked. Joanna tells her boyfriend that she has filed for divorce. Angela confronts Darlene about Elliot and Darlene being fsociety, something she knew from the masks originating in a movie she was forced to watch by them long ago. She settles the lawsuit, to the disgust of her father, and uses that as leverage with Price to be reassigned to the Risk Management division, though she goes too far at her first director's meeting.
On July 4, Angela goes to a bar on a date with a man later revealed to be working with Dom. She ignores her date, sings karaoke, is confronted by her father's friend for working at E Corp only to shame him for being a plumber while she is 27 years old and making more money, and at the end of the night she shows interest in an older man at the bar.
In August, Angela hacks someone at E Corp to get incriminating evidence on the leak. She brings it to a nuclear testing official and is made to wait hours. When a supervisor attempts to lead her down a dim hallway, she leaves. At home, Dom knocks on the door and lets herself. She tells Angela the gig is up and it's better to face the consequences, before leaving.
Angela frantically texts Elliot, who has her in his phone as ClaudiaKincaid, to meet her. Meeting on the subway she is defeated, having called her lawyer to admit her part in the FBI hack. She makes Elliot realize there are more gaps in his memory and warns him not to trust Mr. Robot. Elliot kisses her goodbye. A man and woman approach Angela.