Jay R. Ferguson

Acting

Jay R. Ferguson

Born 1974-07-25 · Dallas, Texas, USA

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.

Acting credits

The Lucky One poster
7.2

A Marine travels to Louisiana after serving three tours in Iraq and searches for the unknown woman he believes was his good luck charm during the war.

The Lucky One

2012

The Killer Inside Me poster
5.8

Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small west Texas town, patient and apparently thoughtful. Some people think he is a little slow and maybe boring, but that is the worst they say about him. But then nobody knows about what Lou calls his "sickness": He is a brilliant, but disturbed sociopathic sadist.

The Killer Inside Me

2010

Higher Learning poster
6.3

African-American student Malik is on a track scholarship; academics are not his strong suit, and he goes in thinking that his athletic abilities will earn him a free ride through college. Fudge, a "professional student" who has been at Columbus for six years so far, becomes friendly with Malik and challenges his views about race and politics in America.

Higher Learning

1995

Girl poster
5.0

A sheltered, straight-A high school senior, Andrea Marr, becomes infatuated with a local rock singer, Todd Sparrow, and dives into the underground music scene, neglecting her friends and academic life in the process.

Girl

1998

Campfire Tales poster
5.9

Anthology of famous, scary urban legends done with a modern twist.

Campfire Tales

1997

The In Crowd poster
4.7

A mentally disturbed young woman takes a job at a posh country club and falls in with a clique of wealthy college kids where she's taken under the wing of the clique's twisted leader, who harbors some dark secrets too terrifying to tell.

The In Crowd

2000

Back in the Day poster
4.7

Sometimes in order to move forward, you have to go back. And in this raunchy comedy, Jim Owens does just that when he heads home for his high school reunion. In an attempt to relive the glory days with his boys and explore an old romance, he nearly destroys his hometown and friendships.

Back in the Day

2014

Little Loopers poster
4.8

Former golf pro directed to serve community service by teaching teenagers to play golf. A kind of "Bad News Bears" meets golf.

Little Loopers

2015

Hollywood Palms poster
5.5

Set entirely in the Hollywood Palms apartment building and its yard, this movie looks at how people there live, and the intertwining stories of the residents who develop interesting relationships with one another.

Hollywood Palms

2000

The Year That Trembled poster
3.7

The Year That Trembled is a coming-of-age story set in 1970 in the shadow of Kent State that focuses on a group of young people facing the Vietnam Draft Lottery.

The Year That Trembled

2002

Club Life poster
4.8

When Johnny D. is forced to take on his family's financial troubles, he turns to the Manhattan club scene to make some fast cash. As he falls under the wing of a veteran nightlife promoter, Johnny quickly rises through the ranks - but soon finds that not everything behind the red rope is full of glitz and glamour.

Club Life

2015

Blue Ridge Fall poster
5.0

In the small-town world of Jefferson Creek, North Carolina, star high school quarterback Danny Shepherd and his buddies are the golden boys who think they can get away with anything. When their simple-minded friend, Aaron, commits a violent crime, the boys vow to protect him by covering up evidence. Now, as they desperately struggle to keep the secret, their world begins to fall apart.

Blue Ridge Fall

1999

No artwork available
NR

A criminal lawyer attempts to solve cases by hiring two two law school grads.

Criminology 101

2003

A Stand Up Guy poster
5.1

A low-level mobster takes a stab at stand-up comedy while in the Witness Protection Program.

A Stand Up Guy

2016

The Price of Love poster
5.8

16 year old Bret lives with his indifferent father and a stepmother who abhors him. After yet another fight he leaves home. He meets two guys and a girl who are drifting around. He feels attracted to Roxanne and they decide to continue together to LA. Unfortunately Roxanne gets busted by the police, so Bret is on his own again. In LA he meets some nice guys who offer him lodging. However they are involved with (male) prostitution...

The Price of Love

1995

No artwork available
NR

The story of George Moses Horton, an enslaved poet in 19th-century North Carolina who used his writing to resist bondage and seek freedom.

The Bard

No artwork available
7.0

A rock-n-roll sex comedy about a young girl who will do anything to become a rock star, working in an LA domination parlor to support herself.

Pink as the Day She Was Born

1997

Shattered Dreams poster
6.0

Charlotte marries John. Things seem ok; John has a good job and he's going up in the world, working for the government. But every so often he loses his temper and Charlotte gets the brunt of his anger. During the 18 year course of their marriage, there are at least 8 incidents of physical abuse and countless of mental. Charlotte's family and friends tell her to leave John but she keeps going back, most likely because he has convinced her that she would be nothing without him. It finally explodes in a big divorce battle balancing on the cases of abuse.

Shattered Dreams

1990

The Makings of You poster
6.0

Nothing happens until two people fall in love – and then the whole world changes.

The Makings of You

2014