Jay R. Ferguson

Born: 1974-07-25

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.


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The Lucky One

as Keith Clayton
Released: 2012-04-19

A Marine travels to Louisiana after serving three tours in Iraq and searches for the unknown...

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Campfire Tales

as Cliff (segment "The Campfire")
Released: 1997-05-16

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

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Higher Learning

as Billy
Released: 1995-01-11

African-American student Malik is on a track scholarship; academics are not his strong suit, and...

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The Killer Inside Me

as Elmer Conway
Released: 2010-02-19

Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small west Texas town, patient and...

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Club Life

as Steven
Released: 2015-05-29

When Johnny D. is forced to take on his family's financial troubles, he turns to the Manhattan...

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Girl

as Parker Blackman
Released: 1998-11-05

Andrea Marr is a bright, straight-A, mature, 18-year-old high school senior on the verge of...

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The In Crowd

as Andy
Released: 2000-07-19

A mentally disturbed young woman takes a job at a posh country club and falls in with a clique...

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Hollywood Palms

as Riley
Released: 2000-12-31

Set entirely in the Hollywood Palms apartment building and its yard, this movie looks at how...

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Back in the Day

as Mark
Released: 2014-01-07

Sometimes in order to move forward, you have to go back. And in this raunchy comedy, Jim Owens...

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Blue Ridge Fall

as Shane
Released: 1999-10-07

After a boy kills his father he must turn to his frinds to cover his tracks with tests their...

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The Price of Love

as Beau
Released: 1995-11-28

16 year old Bret lives with his indifferent father and a stepmother who abhors him. After yet...

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The Makings of You

as Wallis
Released: 2014-11-13

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

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Shattered Dreams

as Older Dotti
Released: 1990-05-13

Charlotte marries John. Things seem ok; John has a good job and he's going up in the world,...

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The Year That Trembled

as Isaac Hoskins
Released: 2002-03-22

The Year That Trembled is a coming-of-age story set in 1970 in the shadow of Kent State that...

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A Stand Up Guy

as Manny
Released: 2016-02-09

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

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Little Loopers

as Todd
Released: 2015-03-31

Former golf pro directed to serve community service by teaching teenagers to play golf. A kind...

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The Romanoffs: End of the Line

as Joe Garner
Released: 2018-11-16

EPISODE 7 On a trip abroad to pursue their legacy, a couple faces destruction.

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Castle

as Dick Coonan
First aired: 2009-03-09

After a serial killer imitates the plots of his novels, successful mystery novelist Richard...

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CSI: Miami

as uncredited
First aired: 2002-09-23

CSI: Miami follows Crime Scene Investigators working for the Miami-Dade Police Department as...

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Medium

as Tommy Lehane
First aired: 2005-01-03

Allison Dubois works in the District Attorney’s office using her natural intuition about people...

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Twin Peaks

as Special Agent Randall Headley
First aired: 1990-04-08

The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin...

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Mad Men

as Stan Rizzo
First aired: 2007-07-19

Set in 1960-1970 New York, this sexy, stylized and provocative drama follows the lives of the...

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Ray Donovan

as Thomas Volcheck
First aired: 2013-06-30

Set in the sprawling mecca of the rich and famous, Ray Donovan does the dirty work for LA's top...

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Lie to Me

as uncredited
First aired: 2009-01-21

The world's leading deception researcher, Dr. Cal Lightman, studies facial expression, body...

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Weeds

as Keith
First aired: 2005-08-07

After the unexpected death of her husband, a suburban mom resorts to selling weed to support her...

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Judging Amy

as Dr. Todd Hooper
First aired: 1999-09-19

Judging Amy is an American television drama that was telecast from September 19, 1999, through...

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Burn Notice

as John O'Lear
First aired: 2007-06-28

A formerly blacklisted spy uses his unique skills and training to help people in desperate...

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The Mindy Project

as Drew Schakowsky
First aired: 2012-09-25

Obstetrician/gynecologist Mindy Lahiri tries to balance her personal and professional life,...

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American Crime Story

as Agent Keith Evans, FBI
First aired: 2016-02-02

An anthology series centered around some of history's most famous criminal investigations.

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The Conners

as Ben
First aired: 2018-10-16

This iconic family—Dan, Jackie, Darlene, Becky and D.J.—grapples with parenthood, dating, an...

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Surface

as Rich Connelly
First aired: 2005-09-19

A marine biologist, an insurance salesman and a teenage boy find their lives changed when a new...

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Sleeper Cell

as uncredited
First aired: 2005-12-04

A chilling and unflinching look at all sides of a complicated issue, focusing on an...

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The Real O'Neals

as Pat O'Neal
First aired: 2016-03-02

A contemporary take on a seemingly perfect Catholic family, whose lives take an unexpected turn...

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Evening Shade

as Taylor Newton
First aired: 1990-09-21

Evening Shade is an American sitcom television series that aired on CBS from 1990 to 1994. The...

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The Romanoffs

as Joe Garner
First aired: 2018-10-11

An anthology series centered around people who believe themselves to be the modern-day...

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Glory Days

as Rudy Dunlop
First aired: 2002-01-16

Wunderkind author Mike Dolan achieved literary fame at age 21 with a steamy expose on his...

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The Outsiders

as Ponyboy Curtis
First aired: 1990-03-25

The story of the Curtis brothers, a group of troubled teens in 1960s Oklahoma, struggling to...

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Briarpatch

as Jake Spivey
First aired: 2020-02-06

Dogged investigator Allegra Dill returns to her border-town Texas home after her sister is...

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Living Biblically

as Chip Curry
First aired: 2018-02-26

An adaptation of the non-fiction book by A.J. Jacobs, in which a man tries to live in accordance...

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The Unknown

as uncredited
First aired: 2012-07-13

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