Jon Hamm (Role)              : Don Draper

Birthday                           : 3-10-1971

Birthplace                        : St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Birth Name                      : Jonathan Daniel Hamm

Recent Role                     : Dr. Drew Baird on 30 Rock

Gender                           : Male

Jonathan Hamm, an American actor, is also known as Jonathan Daniel ‘Jon’ Hamm. His major work is on television. Jon attended John Burroughs School in Ladue, Missouri. He got a scholarship and joined the University of Missouri. During that time period, he also worked as a day care teacher. Then, he taught high school at John Burroughs, and decided to move to Hollywood.

It was 2000 when Hamm made his professional acting debut and his first appearance was on ‘The Hughleys’. He next appeared in the feature film ‘Space Cowboys’ and his next appearance was on ‘Kissing Jessica Stein’ and following it was ‘We Were Soldiers’.

Among Jonathan Hamm’s recurring roles on TV are- ‘Providence’, ‘The Division’, ‘What About Brian’, and ‘The Unit’. He then joined ‘Mad Men’ and this role earned him a Golden Globe award and an Emmy nomination.

In 2008, Hamm was seen appearing in the films ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’ and ‘The Boy in the Box’. In 2009, Jonathan Hamm would be seen in a 2009 horror film called ‘Heart’.

Hamm has also hosted an episode of ‘Saturday Night Live’, NBC sketch comedy show. Hamm also masqueraded as John F. Kennedy and James Mason on two different sketch shows. In 2009, he will also be seen on ‘30 Rock’, as a doctor neighbor and love interest of Liz Lemon.

Currently, Hamm is living in Los Angeles along with his long term partner, Jennifer Westfield, actress and co-writer of Kissing Jessica Stein.

Among his other acting credits are ‘The Ten’, ‘Ira and Abby’, ‘We were Soldiers’, ‘Space Cowboys’, ‘The Sarah Silverman Program’, , ‘Numb3rs’, ‘Related’, ‘CSI: Miami’, ‘Point Pleasant’, ‘Charmed’, ‘Gilmore Girls’, ‘Early Bird Special’, ‘Providence’, ‘The Trouble with Normal’ and ‘The Hughleys’.

Role on ‘Mad Men’

Jonathan Hamm appears as Don Draper on ‘Mad Men‘. He works as the creative director of the Sterling Cooper Advertising Agency. He’s married to Betty Draper and has two children Sally and Robert. In the first season of series, he has an affair with Rachel Menken.