
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.

CSI: Miami
TV • 2002

Castle
TV • 2009

Medium
TV • 2005

Mad Men
TV • 2007

Twin Peaks
TV • 1990

Weeds
TV • 2005

The Mindy Project
TV • 2012

Judging Amy
TV • 1999

Burn Notice
TV • 2007

American Crime Story
TV • 2016

Lie to Me
TV • 2009

Ray Donovan
TV • 2013

The Conners
TV • 2018

Surface
TV • 2005

The Romanoffs
TV • 2018

The Real O'Neals
TV • 2016

Glory Days
TV • 2002

Evening Shade
TV • 1990