Jay R. Ferguson

Acting

Born July 25, 1974, Dallas, Texas, USA

Jay Rowland Ferguson Jr. (born July 25, 1974) is an American actor. Best known as Taylor Newton in Evening Shade (1990-1994), Stan Rizzo in Mad Men (2010-2015), and Ben in The Conners (2018-present). Ferguson was born in Dallas, Texas. In 1989, Ferguson played Ponyboy Curtis in the television adaptation of S. E. Hinton's novel The Outsiders.[1] His notable television roles include Taylor Newton in four seasons of the CBS sitcom Evening Shade, Dr. Todd Hooper on Judging Amy, Rich Connelly in the 2005 NBC television series Surface, Agent Warren Russell on the Showtime series Sleeper Cell, Stan Rizzo on the AMC series Mad Men, and as Pat O'Neal, the father of the O'Neal family in the ABC series The Real O'Neals. His film roles include Billy in Higher Learning, Elmer Conway in The Killer Inside Me, and Keith Clayton in The Lucky One. In 2018, he played Chip Curry in the CBS sitcom Living Biblically. Since 2018, he has played Darlene's boss (and eventual lover), Ben, in The Conners.

Filmography

• The Paper — Randy
• Briarpatch — Jake Spivey
• Living Biblically — Chip Curry
• The Conners — Ben
• The Romanoffs — Joe Garner
• 2016A Stand Up Guy — Manny
• American Crime Story — Agent Keith Evans, FBI
• The Real O'Neals — Pat O'Neal
• 2015Club Life — Steven
• 2015Little Loopers — Todd
• 2014Back in the Day — Mark
• 2014The Makings of You — Wallis
• Ray Donovan — Thomas Volcheck
• 2012The Lucky One — Keith Clayton
• The Mindy Project — Drew Schakowsky
• The Unknown
• 2010The Killer Inside Me — Elmer Conway
• Castle — Dick Coonan
• Lie to Me — Jimmy
• Easy Money
• Burn Notice — John O'Lear
• Mad Men — Stan Rizzo
• Medium — Tommy Lehane
• Sleeper Cell
• Surface — Rich Connelly
• Weeds — Keith
• 2003Criminology 101 — Johnny
• CSI: Miami — Larry Hopkins
• Glory Days — Rudy Dunlop
• 2002The Year That Trembled — Isaac Hoskins
• 2000Hollywood Palms — Riley
• 2000The In Crowd — Andy
• 1999Blue Ridge Fall — Shane
• Judging Amy — Dr. Todd Hooper
• 1998Girl — Parker Blackman
• 1997Campfire Tales — Cliff (segment "The Campfire")
• 1997Pink as the Day She Was Born
• 1995Higher Learning — Billy
• 1995The Price of Love — Beau
• Evening Shade — Taylor Newton
• 1990Shattered Dreams — Older Dotti
• The Outsiders — Ponyboy Curtis
• Twin Peaks — Randall Headley
• The Bard