Jon Hamm
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 blockbusters in 2022 with Tom Cruise in the reboot Top Gun: Maverick.
Known For
Mad Men
Don Draper (2007)
Jon Hamm Movies
Actor
Previous (26)
- 2026 |
- 2026 |
Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass
asJon Hamm
Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass
When her fiancé uses their "celebrity pass" agreement, Midwest bride Gail Daughtry travels to Hollywood seeking revenge by pursuing her own celebrity encounter.
- 2024 |
Transformers One
asSentinel Prime
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.
- 2024 |
Mean Girls
asCoach Carr
Cady Heron is a hit with the Plastics, an A-list girl clique at her new school. But everything changes when she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George.
- 2023 |
Radical Wolfe
asNarrator
With a distinctive style all his own, author and journalist Tom Wolfe reshapes how American stories are told.
- 2022 |
Confess, Fletch
asFletch
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: Maverick
asAdm. Beau 'Cyclone' Simpson
More than thirty years after graduating from Top Gun, Pete Mitchell is still a Navy captain, still flying, and still refusing every promotion that would ground him. When a classified mission requires pilots trained beyond what's currently possible, Maverick is brought in to train them. Among the candidates is Lt. Bradley Bradshaw, call sign Rooster, the son of Goose, Maverick's partner. A legacy sequel about the cost of living in the past, the fear of losing the people you fly with, and what it takes to lead.
- 2021 |
No Sudden Move
asJoe Finney
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.
- 2020 |
Wild Mountain Thyme
asAdam
A pair of star-crossed lovers in Ireland get caught up in their family's land dispute.
- 2020 |
The Jesus Rolls
asPaul Dominique
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 |
Richard Jewell
asTom Shaw
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 |
Lucy in the Sky
asMark Goodwin
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.
- 2019 |
The Report
asDenis McDonough
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.
- 2018 |
- 2018 |
- 2018 |
- 2018 |
Bad Times at the El Royale
asLaramie Seymour Sullivan
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.
- 2018 |
Always at The Carlyle
asSelf
The iconic Carlyle hotel has been an international destination for a particular jet-set as well as a favorite haunt of the most discernible New Yorkers.
- 2017 |
Baby Driver
asBuddy
Coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver must face the music when a doomed heist threatens his life, love, and freedom.
- 2017 |
Marjorie Prime
asWalter
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.
- 2016 |
Keeping Up with the Joneses
asTim Jones
A suburban couple becomes embroiled in an international espionage plot when they discover that their seemingly perfect new neighbors are government spies.
- 2015 |
- 2014 |
Million Dollar Arm
asJB
A sports agent stages an unconventional recruitment strategy to get talented Indian cricket players to play Major League Baseball.
- 2010 |
- 2010 |
Shrek Forever After
asBrogan
Rumpelstiltskin tricks a mid-life crisis burdened Shrek into allowing himself to be erased from existence and cast in a dark alternate timeline where Rumpelstiltskin rules supreme.
- 2002 |
We Were Soldiers
asCapt. Matt Dillon
The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War, and the soldiers on both sides that fought it, while their wives wait nervously and anxiously at home for the good news or the bad news.
Producer
Previous (1)
- 2022 |
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.
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