Peggy Scott

Peggy Scott is a young Black woman with literary ambitions, arriving at the van Rhijn household as Agnes's secretary while quietly pursuing her own writing career. Educated, composed, and quietly determined, she navigates a world that underestimates her, forming an unlikely friendship with Marian while keeping her own family and past carefully guarded.

The show could have made Peggy a mere counterpoint to its white socialites, but Denée Benton gives her interior life and steel—watch how she holds her face still in rooms that expect her to perform gratitude. Her ambition as a writer, and the barriers around it, give the series its sharpest, least decorative storyline.