Jon Hamm

Jon Hamm is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Don Draper in the period drama television series Mad Men (2007–2015), for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Television Series – Drama in 2008 and 2016, two Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series, and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 2015. He received 16 Primetime Emmy Award nominations for acting in and producing Mad Men and for his guest appearances on 30 Rock and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.

Hamm was born on March 10, 1971, in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Deborah (née Garner) Hamm, a secretary, and Daniel Hamm, who managed a family trucking company. He is of German, English and Irish descent; his surname came from German immigrants. He was raised Catholic.

His parents divorced when he was two years old, and he lived in the St. Louis suburb of Creve Coeur with his mother until her death from colon cancer when he was ten. He then lived with his father and grandmother in nearby Normandy.

Hamm was in a long-term relationship with actor and screenwriter Jennifer Westfeldt from 1997 to 2015. In February 2023, Hamm became engaged to actor Anna Osceola after two years of dating. The two were married in June 2023. (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0)

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• Selleck, Emily. "Jon Hamm marries fiancée Anna Osceola where they filmed 'Mad Men' finale." Page Six, published 25 June 2023. < link > Accessed 25 June 2023.