Jon Hamm
Birthdate: Mar 10, 1971
Birthplace: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Jon Hamm (birthname: Jonathan Daniel Hamm) is firmly fixed in audiences’ imaginations as Don Draper, the complicated and ambitious ad executive at the heart of Matthew Weiner’s groundbreaking series, Mad Men (2007-2015). But his post-Mad Men career has shifted toward the movies, which isn’t surprising since Hamm has a gift for commanding the camera’s attention—perhaps the crucial ingredient that movie stars must have.
Hamm’s pre-Mad Men career proved the kind of tough slog experienced by almost all actors, starting with minor roles in such Hollywood movies as Randall Wallace’s We Were Soldiers (2002) with Mel Gibson, Madeleine Stowe, Greg Kinnear, Sam Elliott, and Keri Russell; David Wain’s Ten Commandments anthology, The Ten (2007) with Paul Rudd, Liev Schreiber, Jessica Alba, Justin Theroux, Winona Ryder, Gretchen Mol, and Oliver Platt; The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) with Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates, and John Cleese; the Allen Ginsberg biopic, Howl (2010), with James Franco, Jeff Daniels, and David Strathairn.
With Ben Affleck’s Boston crime drama, The Town (2010), Jon Hamm rose to co-star status with Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jeremy Renner, and Blake Lively. He joined the mainly female ensemble for Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch (2011) with Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone, and Oscar Isaac, followed by Jennifer Westfeldt’s Friends with Kids (2011) with a high-wattage comedy ensemble including Kristin Wiig, Westfeldt, Adam Scott, Maya Rudolph, and Chris O’Dowd. Hamm was the name (and face) above the title of Disney’s Million Dollar Arm (2014), with Aasif Mandvi, Bill Paxton, and Alan Arkin.
Hamm committed to more indie projects after his Mad Men success, including Michael Almereyda’s Marjorie Prime, with Geena Davis and Tim Robbins, in which he was able to dive into a rich role in a sustained theatrical setting; Edgar Wright’s action comedy, Baby Driver (2017) with Ansor Elgart, Kevin Spacey, Jon Bernthal and Eiza Gonzalez; Tribeca festival contender Aardvark (2017), with Zachary Quinto and Marin Ireland; the Mark Pellington/Alex Ross Perry drama, Nostalgia (2018) with Ellen Burstyn, Bruce Dern, Catherine Keener, and Nick Offerman; and the Brad Anderson/Tony Gilroy thriller with Rosamund Pike, Beirut (2018), with Jon Hamm’s name above the title once again.
Jon Hamm has recently opted for a range of unclassifiable projects that mix and match comedy, drama, and action, with the nutty New Line release, Tag (2018) with Jeremy Renner and Ed Helms an ideal example; along with the twisted noir, Bad Times at the El Royale (2018); John Turturro’s The Jesus Rolls (2019); Noah Hawley’s intimate sci-fi Lucy in the Sky (2019) with Natalie Portman and Ellen Burstyn; Clint Eastwood’s docu-drama, Richard Jewell (2019); with Emily Blunt, Jamie Dornan and Christopher Walken in John Patrick Shanley’s comedy-drama Wild Mountain Thyme (2020); and Steven Soderbergh’s crime comedy-drama, No Sudden Move (2021) with Don Cheadle and Benicio Del Toro. Jon Hamm returned to studio blockbuster movies with Tom Cruise in 2022 with the reboot, Top Gun: Maverick.
Personal Details
Jon Hamm’s parents were Deborah and Daniel Hamm. Deborah died when Hamm was ten; Daniel died when Hamm was twenty. After this loss, he suffered from severe chronic depression and alcohol dependency in his 20s. He has two sisters, Julie Schulte and Jennifer Hinze. Hamm studied acting at the University of Missouri, on scholarship. His height is 6’ 1 ¼”.
Known For
Awards
Winner, Best Actor in Drama Series, Emmy Awards (2015); Two-time winner, Best Actor in Television Series, Golden Globes Awards (2008, 2016); Two-time nominee, Best Producer of Episodic Television Drama, Producers Guild Awards (2013, 2016); Two-time winner, Outstanding Ensemble in Drama Series, Screen Actors Guild (2009, 2010).
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Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
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Filmography
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- 2021 | No Sudden MoveasJoe Finney
No Sudden Move
A group of criminals that are brought together under mysterious circumstances and have to work together to uncover what's really going on when their simple job goes completely sideways.
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- 2024 | Transformers OneasSentinel Prime
Transformers One
The untold origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron, better known as sworn enemies, but who once were friends bonded like brothers who changed the fate of Cybertron forever.
- 2023 | Maggie Moore(s)as Jordan Sanders
- 2023 | Metalocalypse: Army of the Doomstaras Emcee, Klokateer
- 2023 | Radical WolfeasNarrator
Radical Wolfe
With a distinctive style all his own, author and journalist Tom Wolfe reshapes how American stories are told.
- 2022 | Corner Officeas Orson
- 2022 | Confess, FletchasFletch
Confess, Fletch
After becoming the prime suspect in a murder, Fletch strives to prove his innocence while simultaneously searching for his girlfriend's stolen art collection.
- 2022 | Top Gun: MaverickasAdm. Beau 'Cyclone' Simpson
Top Gun: Maverick
The story involves Maverick confronting his past while training a group of younger Top Gun graduates, including the son of his deceased best friend, for a dangerous mission.
- 2021 | King of Cool
- 2020 | Wild Mountain ThymeasAdam
Wild Mountain Thyme
A pair of star-crossed lovers in Ireland get caught up in their family's land dispute.
- 2019 | The Jesus RollsasPaul Dominique
The Jesus Rolls
A trio of misfits whose irreverent, sexually charged dynamic evolves into a surprising love story as their spontaneous and flippant attitude towards the past or future backfires time and again.
- 2019 | Sid & Judyas Sid Luft
- 2019 | Richard JewellasTom Shaw
Richard Jewell
Security guard Richard Jewell is an instant hero after foiling a bomb attack at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, but his life becomes a nightmare when the FBI leaks to the media that he is a suspect in the case.
- 2019 | The ReportasDenis McDonough
The Report
Idealistic Senate staffer Daniel J. Jones, tasked by his boss to lead an investigation into the CIA's post 9/11 Detention and Interrogation Program, uncovers shocking secrets.
- 2019 | Lucy in the SkyasMark Goodwin
Lucy in the Sky
Astronaut Lucy Cola returns to Earth after a transcendent experience during a mission to space, and begins to lose touch with reality in a world that now seems too small.
- 2018 | Bad Times at the El RoyaleasLaramie Seymour Sullivan
Bad Times at the El Royale
1969. Four strangers check in at the El Royale Hotel. The hotel is deserted, staffed by a single desk clerk. Some of the new guests' reasons for being there are less than innocent and some are not who they appear to be.
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- 2018 | Nostalgia (2018)asWill
Nostalgia (2018)
A mosaic of stories about love and loss, exploring our relationship to the objects, artifacts, and memories that shape our lives.
- 2017 | Aardvarkas Craig
- 2017 | Marjorie PrimeasWalter
Marjorie Prime
A service that provides holographic recreations of deceased loved ones allows a woman to come face-to-face with the younger version of her late husband.
- 2017 | Baby DriverasBuddy
Baby Driver
After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail.
- 2016 | Circus Kid
- 2016 | Keeping Up with the JonesesasTim Jones
Keeping Up with the Joneses
A suburban couple becomes embroiled in an international espionage plot when they discover that their seemingly perfect new neighbors are government spies.
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- 2014 | Million Dollar ArmasJB
Million Dollar Arm
A sports agent stages an unconventional recruitment strategy to get talented Indian cricket players to play Major League Baseball.
- 2013 | The Congressas Dylan Truliner
- 2011 | Friends with Kids
- 2011 | Friends with Kidsas Ben
- 2011 | Sucker Punchas Doctor
- 2011 | Sucker Punchas High Roller
- 2010 | Howlas Jake Ehrlich
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- 2010 | Shrek Forever Afteras Brogan
- 2009 | Stolenas Tom Adkins Sr.
- 2008 | The Day the Earth Stood Stillas Michael Granier
- 2007 | The Tenas Skydiving Guide Chris Knarl
- 2001 | Early Bird Specialas Red Headed Cop
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- 2019 | Always at The Carlyle
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Some Facts About Jon Hamm
First Role: Jon Hamm’s first stage role, in the first grade, was Winnie-the-Pooh.
It’s A Job: Hamm worked as a set dresser on porn film sets.
One Day at a Time: Jon Hamm recovered from alcohol addiction in 2015, which had dogged him since a severe bout of depression in his 20s after the death of his father.
Non-smoker: Despite the fact that his Mad Men‘s Don Draper is a heavy smoker, Hamm quit smoking in his 20s, and used herbal cigarettes for the role.
