Jonathan Daniel Hamm born March 10, is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Don Draper in the period drama series Mad Men — , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] for which he won numerous accolades , including a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards.
He was divorced from my mom when she died, but even so, there's a deep sense of tragedy in that. I never had the opportunity to, as an adult, sit down and talk to him about that. It's a real loss. I was quasi-adopted by my friends' families And even today I get emails or cards from these women who, for lack of a better word, were my mom. We talk about what it means to be a family. Mostly it's about showing up. And being aware enough to check in and say, 'How are you doing?
Jonathan Daniel Hamm was born on March 10, , in St. Louis suburb of Creve Coeur with his mother [ 12 ] until her death from colon cancer when Hamm was 10 years old. His first acting role was as Winnie-the-Pooh in first grade. He attended John Burroughs School , a private school in Ladue , where he was a member of the football, baseball and swim teams.
After graduation in , Hamm enrolled at the University of Texas. After graduating in with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, [ 24 ] Hamm returned to his high school to teach eighth-grade acting. Hamm, who didn't wish to pursue a "normal career," moved to Los Angeles permanently in You either suck that up and find another agent, or you go home and say you gave it a shot, but that's the end of that.
The last thing I wanted to be out here was one of those actors who's 45 years old, with a tenuous grasp of their own reality, and not really working much. So I gave myself five years. I said, if I can't get it going by the time I'm 30, I'm in the wrong place. And as soon as I said that, it's like I started working right away. Hamm landed his breakthrough role in , when he was chosen from over 80 candidates [ 30 ] to play Don Draper , protagonist of AMC 's drama series Mad Men.
