A native of Dallas, Texas, Jay R. Ferguson moved to Los Angeles and
embarked on his acting career at age 14 when he was cast in the lead
role of “Ponyboy” in the television series adaptation of Francis
Ford Coppola’s film “The Outsiders.”

Most recently, Ferguson starred with Rosario Dawson in the USA
miniseries “Briarpatch,” opposite Kathryn Hahn, in a critically
acclaimed episode of Matt Weiner’s “The Romanoffs” for Amazon
and was the lead in the CBS comedy “Living Biblically.” Other
recent television credits include the ABC series “The Real
O’Neals,” Showtime’s revival of “Twin Peaks” for director
David Lynch and FX’s Emmy®-winning “The Assassination of Gianni
Versace: American Crime Story.” Ferguson received multiple SAG
nominations for his series regular role of Stan Rizzo in the Emmy
Award-winning “Mad Men.” Prior, Ferguson played series regular
roles in “Sleeper Cell,” “Surface,” “Easy Money” and
“Evening Shade.” He can currently be seen as Ben on ABC’s “The
Conners.”

Ferguson’s feature film credits include “The Lucky One,” based
on the bestselling Nicholas Sparks novel, in which he starred opposite
Zac Efron and Taylor Shilling; Michael Winterbottom’s “The Killer
Inside Me”; and John Singleton’s “Higher Learning.”
