Jay R. Ferguson
Actor
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
The Killer Inside Me
as Elmer Conway 2010
Higher Learning
as Billy 1995
Campfire Tales
as Cliff (segment "The Campfire") 1997
The In Crowd
as Andy 2000
Club Life
as Steven 2015
Girl
as Parker Blackman 1998
Back in the Day
as Mark 2014
A Stand Up Guy
as Manny 2016
Blue Ridge Fall
as Shane 1999
The Year That Trembled
as Isaac Hoskins 2002
Little Loopers
as Todd 2015
Shattered Dreams
as Older Dotti 1990
The Price of Love
as Beau 1995
Hollywood Palms
as Riley 2000
The Makings of You
as Wallis 2014
Pink as the Day She Was Born
1997