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