Jay R. Ferguson
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.
Movies 19
The Lucky One
as Keith Clayton
2012
The Killer Inside Me
as Elmer Conway
2010
Higher Learning
as Billy
1995
The In Crowd
as Andy
2000
Back in the Day
as Mark
2014
Campfire Tales
as Cliff (segment "The Campfire")
1997
The Price of Love
as Beau
1995
Girl
as Parker Blackman
1998
A Stand Up Guy
as Manny
2016
The Year That Trembled
as Isaac Hoskins
2002
Club Life
as Steven
2015
Blue Ridge Fall
as Shane
1999
Hollywood Palms
as Riley
2000
Criminology 101
as Johnny
2003
Little Loopers
as Todd
2015
Pink as the Day She Was Born
1997
Shattered Dreams
as Older Dotti
1990
The Makings of You
as Wallis
2014
The Bard
TV Shows 25
CSI: Miami
as Larry Hopkins
2002
Castle
as Dick Coonan
2009
Medium
as Tommy Lehane
2005
Twin Peaks
as Randall Headley
1990
Mad Men
as Stan Rizzo
2007
Weeds
as Keith
2005
Judging Amy
as Dr. Todd Hooper
1999
Burn Notice
as John O'Lear
2007
Ray Donovan
as Thomas Volcheck
2013
The Mindy Project
as Drew Schakowsky
2012
Lie to Me
as Jimmy
2009
The Conners
as Ben
2018
American Crime Story
as Agent Keith Evans, FBI
2016
Evening Shade
as Taylor Newton
1990
The Paper
as Randy
2025
Sleeper Cell
2005
Surface
as Rich Connelly
2005
The Real O'Neals
as Pat O'Neal
2016
The Romanoffs
as Joe Garner
2018
Briarpatch
as Jake Spivey
2020
Glory Days
as Rudy Dunlop
2002
The Outsiders
as Ponyboy Curtis
1990
Easy Money
2008
Living Biblically
as Chip Curry
2018