Name
Jay R. Ferguson
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1974-07-25 (52 years old)
Place of Birth
Dallas, Texas, USA
Biography
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.
Known For
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- 1997 Campfire Tales as Cliff (segment "The Campfire")
- 1999 Blue Ridge Fall as Shane
- 2012 The Lucky One as Keith Clayton
- 2014 Back in the Day as Mark
- 1997 Pink as the Day She Was Born
- 2015 Club Life as Steven
- 2002 The Year That Trembled as Isaac Hoskins
- 2000 The In Crowd as Andy
- 2015 Little Loopers as Todd
- 2016 A Stand Up Guy as Manny
- 2003 Criminology 101 as Johnny
- 1990 Shattered Dreams as Older Dotti
- 1998 Girl as Parker Blackman
- 1995 The Price of Love as Beau
- 2010 The Killer Inside Me as Elmer Conway
- 2014 The Makings of You as Wallis
- 2000 Hollywood Palms as Riley
- 1995 Higher Learning as Billy
- Soon The Bard
- 2005 Medium ( 1 episode ) as Tommy Lehane
- 2009 Castle ( 1 episode ) as Dick Coonan
- 1990 Evening Shade ( 100 episodes ) as Taylor Newton
- 2002 CSI: Miami ( 1 episode ) as Larry Hopkins
- 1999 Judging Amy ( 7 episodes ) as Dr. Todd Hooper
- 2005 Surface ( 15 episodes ) as Rich Connelly
- 2008 Easy Money ( 8 episodes )
- 2002 Glory Days ( 9 episodes ) as Rudy Dunlop
- 1990 The Outsiders ( 13 episodes ) as Ponyboy Curtis
- 2009 Lie to Me ( 1 episode ) as Jimmy
- 2007 Mad Men ( 46 episodes ) as Stan Rizzo
- 2005 Weeds ( 1 episode ) as Keith
- 2007 Burn Notice ( 1 episode ) as John O'Lear
- 2016 The Real O'Neals ( 29 episodes ) as Pat O'Neal
- 2012 The Mindy Project ( 2 episodes ) as Drew Schakowsky
- 2012 The Unknown ( 6 episodes )
- 2005 Sleeper Cell ( 6 episodes )
- 2013 Ray Donovan ( 1 episode ) as Thomas Volcheck
- 2018 The Conners ( 95 episodes ) as Ben
- 2020 Briarpatch ( 10 episodes ) as Jake Spivey
- 1990 Twin Peaks ( 4 episodes ) as Randall Headley
- 2016 American Crime Story ( 2 episodes ) as Agent Keith Evans, FBI
- 2018 The Romanoffs ( 1 episode ) as Joe Garner
- 2018 Living Biblically ( 13 episodes ) as Chip Curry
- 2025 The Paper ( 1 episode ) as Randy
