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.
2002 • TV
2009 • TV
1990 • TV
2007 • TV
2012 • Movie
• Movie
as Keith Clayton
as Andy
as Parker Blackman
as Manny
as Johnny
as Steven
as Cliff (segment "The Campfire")
as Elmer Conway
as Riley
as Billy
as Shane
as Isaac Hoskins
as Older Dotti
as Mark
as Beau
as Wallis
as Todd
as Larry Hopkins
1 episodes
as Dick Coonan
1 episodes
as Randall Headley
4 episodes
as Stan Rizzo
46 episodes
as Keith
1 episodes
as Tommy Lehane
1 episodes
as John O'Lear
1 episodes
as Agent Keith Evans, FBI
2 episodes
as Thomas Volcheck
1 episodes
1 episodes
as Dr. Todd Hooper
7 episodes
as Drew Schakowsky
2 episodes
as Ben
95 episodes
as Rich Connelly
15 episodes
as Joe Garner
1 episodes
as Pat O'Neal
29 episodes
as Jake Spivey
10 episodes
as Ponyboy Curtis
13 episodes
as Taylor Newton
100 episodes
as Rudy Dunlop
9 episodes
