Jon Hamm

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Jon Hamm (2014)

Jonathan "Jon" Daniel Hamm (born March 10, 1971 in St. Louis , Missouri ) is an American actor . He gained fame primarily through his leading role as Don Draper in the award-winning television series Mad Men , which he played from 2007 to 2015. For his performance he received an Emmy and two Golden Globe Awards .

biography

Jon Hamm was born in 1971 as Jonathan Daniel Hamm in St. Louis in the American Midwest , where he also grew up. His parents separated when he was two years old and he lived with his mother. After their death from cancer, he grew up with his father and grandmother from the age of ten. The family owned their own truck business. When Jon Hamm was 20 years old, his father died penniless. Hamm, who had already given Pooh in a show at the age of six , attended John Burroughs School in Ladue, Missouri until 1989 , where he was a member of the high school football team. The school costs and the subsequent attendance at the college were financed by a trust fund of his mother, who wanted Hamm to attend the renowned private school.

In the John Burroughs School he met the acting teacher Dwayne Salmon, who let him appear in a production of the play Godspell (“I had the feeling that acting should be an ideal place for orphans like me, orphans in a universal sense too: Man as an actor wanders from project to project and creates a kind of family structure for each of them. "). After graduating from high school, he enrolled at the University of Texas , but left the university before his intermediate diploma due to poor grades, which he said were due to his rampant lifestyle at the time. Hamm returned to his hometown and went to college at the University of Missouri-Columbia , from which he graduated with a bachelor's degree in English. Hamm had received a theater scholarship during his college days and was involved in theater productions. He made his professional stage actor debut in the campus production of the Shakespeare comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream by a Chicago theater company . He later returned to his old high school where he taught drama for a year and worked with his former mentor. During this time he was also involved as a supervisor in a daycare center called Kids Depot .

Hamm during the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver

In the early 1990s, Hamm left St. Louis to pursue a career in show business. With 150 dollars in equity, he moved to live with an aunt in Los Angeles and came across an agent through his acquaintance with the actor Paul Rudd . But it was only after three years that he succeeded in receiving initial offers of roles. Until then, he was able to earn his living by working in a restaurant, as an acting teacher and as a set designer in the soft porn industry. Hamm made his debut in 2000 with the extra role of a young test pilot in Clint Eastwood's comedy Space Cowboys . A first success was the engagement as Burt Ridley in the television series Providence , in which he acted as the object of desire by Paula Cale . The role of the romantic firefighter, originally created only as a guest role, he played in a total of 18 episodes until 2001. Then, in 2002, Hamm received a recurring role as the seemingly carefree inspector Nate Basso in Lady Cops - tough female (The Division) . Until 2004 he played the partner of Tracey Needham in the police series, which is about the lives of five San Francisco police officers . Further guest roles in well-known series such as Gilmore Girls (2002), Charmed - Zauberhaft Hexen or CSI: Miami (both 2005) as well as recurring roles in What About Brian (2006-2007) and The Unit - A Question of Honor (2006-2007) closed while he was back in theaters with the supporting role of Captain Matt Dillon in Randall Wallace's war film We Were Heroes .

However, the 1.82 m tall actor turned down many offers because, according to his own statements, he only wanted to take on roles that interested him. Hamm's big breakthrough as a television actor was given by the lead role in the drama series Mad Men , which was broadcast by AMC in 2007 and is about the employees of a fictional New York advertising agency in the early 1960s. Hamm had to audition a total of seven times for the part of the married family father Don Draper, creative director and later junior boss, who surrounded affairs and a mysterious past. The reward for the portrait of the actor, who previously mainly acted in the comedy field, which was played to "smooth perfection", was winning the 2008 Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series . Hamm had been able to prevail against the twice previously successful British Hugh Laurie ( Dr. House ), while the series (created after an idea by Sopranos screenwriter Matthew Weiner ) was also awarded the Golden Globe and the Emmy .

Jon Hamm lives in Los Angeles and counts actors like Jeff Bridges , Sam Elliott and Greg Kinnear among his role models. The passionate golfer was in a relationship with the American actress and screenwriter Jennifer Westfeldt , with whom he was on stage in 1997 at the performance of her off-Broadway play Lipschtick . Both were also seen together in the play-based film Kissing Jessica (2001) and in the feature film Ira and Abby (2006). Together they founded the production company Points West Pictures in 2009 , which co-produced Westfeldt's comedy film Friends with Kids (2011). In September 2015, Hamm and Westfeldt publicly announced their separation after an 18-year relationship.

Two films followed in 2008, including the part of Dr. Granier in Scott Derrickson's remake of the science fiction classic The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951). That same year, Mad Men began airing its second season , and Hamm was ranked third in People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive poll, behind Australian actor Hugh Jackman and James Bond actor Daniel Craig . In 2009, Hamm also played in the third season of Mad Men , won another Golden Globe and another Emmy nomination for the role of Don Draper and the Golden Nymph of the Monte Carlo TV Festival . Two more Emmy nominations earned him guest appearances as the friendly, awkward pediatrician Dr. Drew Baird alongside Tina Fey in the comedy series 30 Rock . After hiring Mad Men in 2015, he won the award for best actor in a drama series after seven unsuccessful Emmy nominations that same year.

In June 2011, Hamm signed a three-year contract for three more seasons of Mad Men . He directed the third episode of the fifth season for the first time (2012). Since 2012 he can also be seen as the older me of Daniel Radcliffe in the miniseries A Young Doctor's Notebook .

In 2017 he was accepted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), which awards the Oscars every year.

Filmography (selection)

Feature films (selection)

TV Shows

Voice actor

Jon Hamm has been dubbed by various voice actors, since Mad Men in most of his film and series appearances by Sascha Rotermund .

Awards

Emmy

  • 2008 : Nominated for Best Actor in a Drama Series for Mad Men
  • 2009 : Nominated for Best Actor in a Drama Series for Mad Men and Best Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for 30 Rock
  • 2010 : Nominated for Best Actor in a Drama Series for Mad Men and Best Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for 30 Rock
  • 2011 : Nominated for Best Actor in a Drama Series for Mad Men
  • 2012 : Nominated for Best Actor in a Drama Series for Mad Men and Best Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for 30 Rock
  • 2013 : Nominated for Best Actor in a Drama Series for Mad Men
  • 2014 : Nominated for Best Actor in a Drama Series for Mad Men
  • 2015 : Nominated for Best Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
  • 2015: Best Actor in a Drama Series for Mad Men

Golden Globe Award

  • 2008 : Best Actor in a Drama Series for Mad Men
  • 2009 : Nominated for Best Actor in a Drama Series for Mad Men
  • 2010 : Nominated for Best Actor in a Drama Series for Mad Men
  • 2011 : Nominated for Best Actor in a Drama Series for Mad Men
  • 2013 : Nominated for Best Actor in a Drama Series for Mad Men
  • 2016 : Best Actor in a Drama Series for Mad Men

Further

Monte Carlo TV Festival

  • 2009: Golden Nymph for Best Actor in a Drama Series for Mad Men
  • 2010: Nominated for the Golden Nymph for Best Actor in a Drama Series for Mad Men
  • 2011: Golden Nymph for Best Actor in a Drama Series for Mad Men

Satellite Awards

  • 2008 : Nominated for Best Actor in a Television Series - Drama for Mad Men
  • 2009 : Nominated for Best Actor in a Television Series - Drama for Mad Men

Screen Actors Guild Awards

  • 2008 : Nominated in the categories of Best Actor in a TV Series - Drama and Best Acting Ensemble - Drama for Mad Men
  • 2009 : Best Acting Ensemble and nominated for Best Actor in a Television Series - Drama for Mad Men
  • 2010: Best Acting Company - Drama and nominated for Best Actor in a Television Series - Drama for Mad Men
  • 2011: Nominated in the categories of Best Actor in a TV Series - Drama and Best Acting Ensemble - Drama for Mad Men

TV Land Awards

  • 2008: nominated in the category: Mad Ad Man (or Woman) of the Year for Mad Men

Television Critics Association Awards

  • 2008: nominated in the category Best Individual Achievement - Drama for Mad Men
  • 2009: Nominated for Best Individual Achievement - Drama for Mad Men
  • 2011: Best Individual Achievement - Drama for Mad Men

The Hollywood Reporter Award

  • 2010: Best Actor for Mad Men

Web links

Commons : Jon Hamm  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b cf. Profile at hollywood.com (English; accessed September 23, 2008)
  3. ↑ a b c d cf. Lee, Luaine: Jon Hamm finally gets his big break with AMC's 'Mad Men' . In: The Monitor (McAllen, Texas) July 19, 2007, McClatchy-Tribune News Service
  4. ↑ cf. Amatangelo, Amy: Starring role could be Hamm's lucky strike . In: The Boston Herald, July 19, 2007, p. 38
  5. ↑ cf. Gregorian, Vahe: Burroughs' Goal: Winning 2A Title . In: St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri), Aug. 14, 1989, Sports, p. 5
  6. ↑ Interview ( Memento of the original from December 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at gq-magazin.de, December 9, 2010 (accessed November 5, 2011).  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gq-magazin.de
  7. ↑ a b c d cf. Jon Hamm . In: Newsmakers, Issue 2. Gale, 2009 (accessed via Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich .: Gale, 2009)
  8. ↑ cf. Knutzen, Eirik: Jon Hamm . Copley News Service, Sep 7, 2007 at 3:55 AM EST
  9. ↑ cf. Rudd, Paul: Jon Hamm: talking to Mad Men's main man in the gray flannel suit . In: Interview 38 (2005), No. 2, p. 40. ISSN  0149-8932
  10. ↑ a b Lenka Hladikova: Five Facts Jon Hamm: He was young and needed the money. Serienjunkies.de , March 10, 2011, accessed April 7, 2011 .
  11. ↑ cf. MacDonald, Gayle: The sexiest guy in the hottest show . In: The Globe and Mail (Canada), June 7, 2008, p. R14
  12. ↑ cf. Gilbert, Matthew: Slick `Mad Men 'visits Madison Ave. at dawn of the '60s . In: The Boston Globe, July 19, 2007, p. E1
  13. ↑ cf. Biography in the Internet Movie Database (IMDb; accessed September 23, 2008)
  14. ↑ Sexiest Man Alive portrait at people.com (accessed November 21, 2008)
  15. ↑ Jon Hamm . In: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 44/2011 from November 1, 2011 (accessed via Munzinger Online ).
  16. ↑ "Class of 2017". Accessed June 30, 2017. http://www.app.oscars.org/class2017/ .
  17. ↑ Overview of the participants in the IMDb. Accessed August 4, 2017 .
  18. ↑ German synchronous index | Actor | Jon Hamm. Retrieved May 22, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hamm, Jon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hamm, Jonathan Daniel (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Louis , Missouri, United States