Jonathan Daniel Hamm (born March 10, 1971) is an American actor best known for playing advertising executive Don Draper for the AMC television drama series, Mad Men (2007-2015).
For much of the mid-1990s, he lived in Los Angeles, making appearances on the Providence Television series, The Division, What About Brian, and Related . In 2000, he made his film debut in the Space Cowboys space movie. The following year, he had a small role in independent comedy, Kissing Jessica Stein (2001).
She gained wide recognition when Mad Men began in July 2007. Her performance earned her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a TV Drama Series in 2008 and again in 2016, as well as a Primetime Emmy Award for Main Actor Position in the Drama Series in 2015. He also directed two episodes of the show.
In 2008, Hamm appeared in a remake of the science fiction movie The Day the Earth Stood Still. His first film role was in the 2010 stolen independent movie Stolen . She also has supporting roles in The Town Movie (2010), Sucker Punch (2011), and Bridesmaids (2011). Hamm has received 16 Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his performances at Mad Men , 30 Rock (2006-2013), and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2015) - presenting).
Other television credits include the Sky Arts Notebook A Young Doctor series and the guest roles at Black Mirror , Parks and Recreation and Summer Hot American Wet: First Day of Camp . He also provided his voice for the animated films Shrek Forever After (2010) and Minion (2015).
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Hamm was born in St. Louis, Missouri, son of Deborah and Daniel Hamm. His father runs a family trucking company, and his mother is a secretary. He is of German, English and Irish descent; his family name came from German immigrants.
Hamm's parents divorced when he was two years old, and he lives at St. Louis County in Creve Coeur with his mother until his death from colon cancer, when he was 10 years old. Hamm then lived with his father in Clayton, Missouri, county seat.
Her first acting role was as Winnie the Pooh for first class. At the age of 16, she acts as Judas for the Godspell drama, and enjoys the experience, though she takes no serious action. He studied at John Burroughs School, a private school in Ladue, where he became a member of soccer, baseball and swimming teams. During this time, she was dating Sarah Clarke, who became an actress. His father died when Hamm was 20 years old.
After graduating in 1989, Hamm enrolled at the University of Texas, where he was a member of the Upsilon Chapter of Sigma Nu fraternity. There, Hamm was arrested for participating in a violent haze incident in November 1990. Mark Sanders was beaten with paddles and brooms by other fraternity members, while Hamm led him with a hammer paw around his fruits around Sander's fraternity; Sanders clothes are also starting to burn. The incident resulted in the fraternity being closed on campus. Hamm makes a plea agreement and completes probation under the deferred adjudication provisions; the allegations were dismissed during August 1995.
Hamm then enrolled at the University of Missouri. In Missouri he answered an ad from a theater company looking for players for Midsummer Night's Dream production, auditioned, and played a role in production. Other roles are followed, such as Leon Czolgosz at Assassins .
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Acting career
After graduating in 1993 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, Hamm returned to high school to teach eighth-grade acting. One of his students is Ellie Kemper, who later became an actress and is now a star with him on the original Netflix television series, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt .
Initial work
Not wanting to stay in a "normal career", Hamm moved to Los Angeles permanently during 1995 with a car and $ 150. He moved into a house with four other actors and started working as a waitress while attending an audition. He acted in the theater, including as Flavius ​​in the production of Shakespeare Timon of Athens with the Holy Fools Theater Company.
Looked older than his age, finding a job as an actor was difficult, even though there was a representative by the William Morris Agency. During 1998, after failing to get an acting job after three years, he was dismissed as a client by William Morris.
Hamm continues to work as a waitress and, briefly, as the set designer for softcore pornography films. After repeatedly failing to get a promising role, Hamm set his 30th birthday as a deadline for success in Hollywood, stating:
You either suck it up and find another agent, or you go home and say you tried it, but that's the end. The last thing I want to be here is one 45 year old actor, with a weak understanding of their own reality, and not really working hard. So I gave myself five years. I said, if I could not do it by the time I was 30 years old, I was in the wrong place. And as soon as I say that, it feels like I'm starting to work right away.
During 2000, Hamm gained the role of romantic firefighter Burt Ridley in the drama series NBC Providence . His one episode contract grew to 19, and allowed him to stop from the waiting table. Hamm made his movie debut with a single line in Clint Eastwood space adventure Space Cowboys (2000); a substantially more substantial role followed in the independent comedy film Kissing Jessica Stein (2001) and the war movie We Were Soldiers (2002). During the filming, he was 30 years old. His career was supported by his role as police inspector Nate Basso in Lifetime's The Division television series, from 2002 to 2004. Other minor roles featured on the series About Brian, CSI : Miami , Related , Numb3rs , The unit , and Sarah Silverman's Program . Eric Ladin's Hamm's Criminals says that one of the reasons he admired Jon is that while he "made" slower than most actors, Hamm never gave up on acting.
International recognition
Hamm landed his breakthrough role during 2007, when he was cast from over 80 candidates as the protagonist character of Don Draper, in the drama series AMC Mad Men. In this series, set in the fictional advertising agency of the 1960s, he plays the role of suave, married advertising executive with an obscure past. He remembers, "I read the script for Mad Men and I love it. [...] I never thought they would throw me --- I mean I thought they would go with one of the five people who look like me but are movie stars ". He believes that an actor with a "proven track record" may be chosen if another network has broadcast the show. She went through various auditions; every time he explained to the casting director what he could bring to the character, if given a part. Alan Taylor and MadMan creator Matthew Weiner initially thought Hamm was too handsome for the role but ultimately decided, "it's perfect to get rid of the perfect type of man in this section". Weiner also feels that the actor has suffered the loss of his parents early, which is similar to the Draper's background. Hamm said that he used his father's memory to describe Draper, a business man and a well-dressed and influential society hiding a huge inner turmoil and experiencing a change in a world beyond his control.
Mad Men debuted on July 19, 2007, with nearly 1.4 million viewers. It quickly developed a loyal audience, with Hamm receiving strong reviews. Robert Bianco of USA Today is free of Hamm's performance, describing the interpretation of Draper actors as "starmaking performance". Matthew Gilbert from The Boston Globe called Hamm a "brilliant cast".
For his work, Hamm won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Drama - Drama Series during 2008. Also during 2008, he was nominated for both Screen Actors Guild Award for Extraordinary Performance by Male Actor and Emmy Primetime Award for Main Actors Position in Drama Series. During 2009, Hamm was again nominated for a Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award in the same category, and received another Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Best Actor in Drama Series. During 2010, Hamm received his third Golden Globe Award nomination. Mad Men ends a seven-season run on May 17, 2015. Hamm received his first Emmy Primetime Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series on September 20, 2015 after receiving 12 Emmy nominations for acting and producing the series.
Hamm's next film role is for the science fiction movie of 2008 The Day the Earth Stood Still, a remake of the 1951 film of the same title. Although the film received mixed reviews, it was financially successful, generating $ 230 million worldwide. Hamm held Saturday Night Live, season 34, episode 6, on October 25, 2008, and played various roles, including Don Draper in two sketches. She returned as host again on January 30 and October 30, 2010. During 2009, guest-featured Hamm in three episodes of the NBC TV sitcom show 30 Rock , such as Drew Baird, a neighboring doctor and love the flowers of Liz Lemon (Tina Fey). For this show, he received three nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Extraordinary Guest Actor in a Comedy Series.
The main role of Hamm's film came with an independent mystery movie stolen in 2009, where he played a police officer whose son had been missing for eight years. Hamm has a small voice role in the animation feature of Shrek Forever After - released in May 2010, as an ogre leader named Brogan. Also that year, he appeared as an FBI agent in the movie The Town (2010), with Ben Affleck. After receiving "about 40 scripts all set in the 60s, or telling me to play people's ads," Hamm was pleased that the movie offered a "opposite to Don Draper" role. This feature received generally favorable reviews and generated $ 144 million worldwide.
His next acting role is as defense lawyer Jake Ehrlich in the independent film Howl , based on Allen95's epic poem called Allen Ginsberg. On December 12, 2010, Hamm made a guest appearance as an FBI superintendent in the Fox animated series The Simpsons . She appeared in the action-fantasy film Zack Snyder Sucker Punch (2011), as a High Roller character, and doctor. She also has a supporting role in the Bridesmaids comedy as "Kristen rogue and coarse sex friend" Wiig. Hamm is further seen in the independent features of Friends with Kids (2011), which he produces with his partner Jennifer Westfeldt. This story involves a group of friends whose lives change when couples in groups begin to have children.
She has a recurring role in sitcom Todd Margaret's sitcom in 2012, as a billionaire socio-pathic servant Dave Mountford (Blake Harrison). Hamm hosted 21 ESPYS Awards on July 17, 2013. The following year, he played as a sports agent J.B. Bernstein in the Disney sports drama Million Dollar Arm (2014). He teamed up with Daniel Radcliffe on A Young Doctor's Notebook , plays an old version of Radcliffe characters, from December 2012 to December 2013. In December 2014, Hamm's guest starred in a special Christmas episode of the UK fiction science anthology series Black Mirror , titled "White Christmas". She has a number of roles during 2015, on the comedy show Unmyreaker Kimmy Schmidt and Summer Hot American Wet: First Day of Camp . She is featured in the animated comedy Minions , as Herb Overkill's voice. Minion is a huge box office success; despite the diverse reviews, but earned a total of over $ 1 billion worldwide.
Hamm is featured in the Keeping Up with the Joneses comedy, alongside Zach Galifianakis and Gal Gadot; the film was filmed during the spring of 2015, and was released during October 2016 after a seven-month delay. He later appeared in the science fiction movie Marjorie Prime, aired at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, the crime comedy film Edgar Wright Baby Driver, which premiered in South 2017 by Southwest. Festivals and drama Aardvark, which aired at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival. In 2018, Hamm appeared in the drama Nostalgia and the Beirut political thriller. Hamm appeared on episode of
In 2017 Hamm joined the BBC and the Amazon television adaptation of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman Good Omens as an angel Gabriel.
Personal life
Hamm had a relationship with actress and screenwriter Jennifer Westfeldt from 1997 to 2015.
In an interview about his relationship with Westfeldt, Hamm said: "We may not have a piece of paper that says we are husband and wife, but after 10 years, Jennifer is more than just a girlfriend.What we have is much deeper, and we both know For me, people get married when they are ready to have children, which I did not decide. "Along with Westfeldt, Hamm has appeared in Gap-related campaign ads. During April 2009, Hamm and Westfeldt formed their own production company, Points West Pictures. Hamm and Westfeldt are proponents of animal rescue and have adopted a mixed race dog named Cora from the Animal Shelter in California.
Although his role as Don Draper requires Hamm to smoke, he quit smoking when he was 24 years old. On the set she does not smoke is actually a cigarette, but a herbal cigarette that does not contain tobacco or nicotine.
During March 2015, Hamm's representative confirmed that Hamm recently completed patient care for alcoholism. In addition, Hamm reported developing vitiligo during the filming of Mad Men .
Hamm is a golfer and tennis player, and a loyal fan of the National Hockey League (NHL) team, St. Louis Blues; He even appeared in two TV commercials for the team. He is a fan of the Major League Baseball (MLB) team, St. Louis Cardinals', and narrated the official spotlight film for the 2011 World Series, won by Cardinals. Hamm also told the NFL series of Amazon documentaries All Or Nothing since 2015. Also, in 2012, he plays in MLB Legend and Celebrity All Star Softball game as a member of NL. He represents the Cardinals, and hits the home run during the game.
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During March 2010, Mercedes-Benz hired Hamm (replacing actor Richard Thomas) as their new voice actor for the S400 Hybrid campaign. During 2013, American Airlines made its debut in a television commercial entitled "Change is in the Air", featuring Hamm sounds. Hamm is an American Airlines frequent flyer, and his character is Mad Men. Don Draper often talks about the ideals of winning accounts like American Airlines. Hamm also appeared in several ads in an ongoing advertising campaign for H & amps income tax services R Block.
Reception
Considered internationally as a sex symbol, Hamm was named one of S Sexiest Man Living's Salon.com in 2007 and one of the Sexiest Men magazine People Live in 2008. During November 2008, Entertainment Weekly earned it as one of the Entertainers of the Year. She was again crowned as one of the magazine's entertainers of the Year 2010. Hamm also won the International Man's
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