Aaron Staton

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Aaron Staton with his wife Connie Fletcher (2008)

Aaron Staton (* in West Virginia ) is an American actor . He gained fame primarily through the recurring supporting role of Ken Cosgrove in the award-winning US television series Mad Men (since 2007).

Life

Aaron Staton was born in West Virginia in 1989 and moved with his family to Jacksonville ( Florida ). There he attended Terry Parker High School . Staton appeared as an actor at the Jewish Community Alliance (JCA) theater there , where he was seen in the up-and-coming production of the musical Grease . He also worked as a consultant at the JCA Theater Camps for three years .

Staton studied theater studies at Carnegie Mellon University , which he graduated from in 2004 with a bachelor's degree. In the same year he was on Broadway in New York as a substitute actor for the role of Sky in the hit musical Mamma Mia! Committed. In 2006 Staton appeared in the off-Broadway production of The American Pilot at the Manhattan Theater Club, directed by Lynne Meadow . In the play by David Greig , he took on the lead role of an injured US fighter pilot who crashes over a war-torn foreign country and waits for help.

In parallel to his work in the theater, Staton took on guest roles in various television series from the mid-2000s, including Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2005), Eine himmlische Familie (2006) and Without a Trace (2007). He became known to a broad television audience from 2007 through the role of Ken Cosgrove in the successful television series Mad Men . Staton had originally auditioned for the larger part of Pete Campbell, but Vincent Kartheiser received it. The role of the young and successful account manager and ambitious writer Ken Cosgrove, who competes with Pete Campbell, was rewritten as a recurring supporting character after the start of Mad Men . After the success of Mad Men, Staton took on various supporting roles in the cinema, while in 2011 he was the godfather of the motion capture police officer Cole Phelps in the computer game LA Noire .

Aaron Staton lives in Los Angeles . He is married to American colleague Connie Fletcher , with whom he has a son (* 2010). The couple starred together at the Jacksonville Theater in the musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (2000) and in Andrew Miller's short film Boy Meets Girl (2010). He also worked with his wife on an episode of the television series Imaginary Bitches (2008) and on the computer game LA Noire . Staton wrote the script for Boy Meets Girl , and he continues to count writing music as one of his hobbies.

Filmography (selection)

Movies

  • 2007: Descent
  • 2007: I Believe in America
  • 2007: Nanny Diaries ( The Nanny Diaries )
  • 2007: One Night
  • 2007: The Sound of the Heart ( August Rush )
  • 2010: Boy Meets Girl (short film)
  • 2011: Lost Revolution
  • 2014: Preservation

TV Shows

Video games

Awards

  • 2008: Nomination for the Screen Actors Guild Award as part of the Mad Men acting company
  • 2009: Screen Actors Guild Award for being part of the Mad Men acting company
  • 2010: Screen Actors Guild Award as part of the Mad Men acting company
  • 2011: Nomination for the Screen Actors Guild Award as part of the acting company of Mad Men

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Capitano, Laura: He's a 'Mad' man from Jacksonville. In: Florida Times-Union. September 7, 2008, p. D-1.
  2. ↑ People. In: Florida Times-Union. November 10, 2004, p. K-6.
  3. ^ Profile ( memento of May 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) at amctv.com (accessed on July 8, 2012).
  4. ^ Aaron Staton in the Internet Broadway Database (accessed July 8, 2012).
  5. ^ Isherwood, Charles: A Soldier's Plane Crashes, and Then the Real Danger Begins. In: The New York Times . November 22, 2006, Section E, p. 5.
  6. ↑ Q&A: Aaron Staton (Ken Cosgrove) ( Memento from December 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) at blogs.amctv.com, April 4, 2008 (accessed July 8, 2012).
  7. ↑ To Interview With Aaron Staton of LA Noire at gamespot.com, May 13, 2011 (accessed July 8, 2012).
  8. ^ Patton, Charlie: Funny things in 'Forum'. In: Florida Times-Union. June 15, 2000, p. C-1.
personal data
SURNAME Staton, Aaron
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH West Virginia , United States