What the Cast of Mad Men Are Up To 10 Years Later

Jon Hamm

Jon Hamm’s big breakthrough role was playing the protagonist of Mad Men, the dashing, relatable, conflicted Don Draper. Both during the series and since it wrapped, Hamm has continued his successful acting career. He landed big parts in The Town (2010), Sucker Punch (2011) and Bridesmaids (2011). He also appeared on a few other popular television shows, including 30 Rock and The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. 

Right around the time that Mad Men was wrapping, at the peak of his fame, Hamm began to struggle. His 18-year relationship with actor and director Jennifer Westfeldt ended. Subsequently, Hamm entered rehab for alcoholism. However, he has re-emerged healthier and happier. This year, he has a big, fun role in the heist hit Baby Driver. 

Elizabeth Moss

She captured our big feminist hearts in her role as Peggy Olson on Mad Men, but Elisabeth Moss had been a successful actor since she was a kid. Although she gained the widest audience yet as Olson went from scared secretary to stalwart copywriter, Moss’ career trajectory is still moving upward. 

In 2013, she starred in two seasons of the acclaimed miniseries Top of the Lake. Then, in April 2017, she starred in the successful Hulu series The Handmaid’s Tale, which was just greenlighted for another season. You may have also seen her in the indie film Queen of Earth or the dark British drama High Rise. Moss plays Masha in the upcoming stage-to-screen adaptation of The Seagull later this year.

January Jones

Although she had significant parts in movies like American Wedding and We Are Marshall, January Jones didn’t hit the big time until she was cast as the seemingly perfect 1960s housewife Betty Draper in Mad Men. 

Since the Mad Men finale aired in 2015, Jones moved on to play a major role in another television series, Fox’s The Last Man on Earth. In this post-apocalyptic comedy, she plays Melissa Chartres, a former real estate agent who is one of only a handful of people to survive a terrible virus that plagued the planet. You might have also seen Jones in X-Men: First Class, where she played Emma Frost.

Christina Hendricks

Christina Hendricks played one of the most beloved characters on Mad Men: Joan Holloway, the sensible, sassy office manager who was, many times, the only person holding everything together. 

Before her role as Holloway (which earned her six Emmy nominations), Hendricks was a model for many years. Now that Mad Men is over, she is still busy acting for both movies and television. Currently, she plays Chair in the Comedy Central sitcom Another Period, which is a period spoof of Keeping Up With the Kardashians. She also appears on the drama Hap and Leonard on SundanceTV. 

Kiernan Shipka

Fans of Mad Men watched Kiernan Shipka grow up as the sensitive and sometimes troubled daughter of Don and Betty Draper. Shipka, who was just 7 when Mad Men started, is now 17 and continuing her successful acting career. 

On the big screen, she had roles in the movies When Marie Was There, Fan Girl and The Blackcoat’s Daughter. On television, she had a recurring role on Feud: Bette and Joan as the daughter of Bette Davis. 

John Slattery

For many, including us, John Slattery will always be Roger Sterling, the hard-hitting ad man who somehow remained likable through all the drama of the New York advertising world. But Slattery worked hard off the set of Mad Men, both during filming and after the series wrapped. 

Slattery directed five episodes of Mad Men during the show’s run. He took what he learned to direct his own film, God’s Pocket, in 2014. He also appeared in Captain America: Civil War as Howard Stark and Churchill as Dwight D. Eisenhower. 

Vincent Kartheiser

On Mad Men, Vincent Kartheiser was a central character, privileged ad man Peter Campbell. Over the course of the show’s seasons, Pete had a lot of growing up to do. He went from bachelor to family man to single man, and he also worked his way up the corporate ladder — by merit or by blackmail — and became one of the most prominent ad execs when all was said and done.

IRL, Kartheiser has maintained an active acting career since Mad Men wrapped. You may have spotted him in TV shows like Casual, Saints & Strangers or Genius. He’s also appeared in more independent films like My Friend Dahmer and Netflix’s The Most Hated Woman in America. Or you may have spotted him on the red carpet as the handsome date for his girlfriend, actor Alexis Bledel (Gilmore Girls, The Handmaid’s Tale).

Alison Brie

Alison Brie played Pete Campbell’s long-suffering wife, Trudy, until Mad Men wrapped in 2015. But she’s been a very busy actor both during and after her role on the acclaimed AMC drama. 

Brie is certainly in entertainment news this summer as the Netflix hit Glow becomes the obsession of fans and critics alike. In the drama/comedy, Brie stars as Ruth Wilder, a struggling actor who finds herself cast in a new all-women professional wrestling show. She has also appeared in smaller roles in several movies in recent years, including 22 Jump Street and The Lego Movie. 

Off-screen, Brie began dating actor Dave Franco (younger brother of James Franco) in 2015, and they quietly married earlier this year. 

Aaron Staton

Aaron Staton played Ken Cosgrove, an aspiring novelist who was unable to make the magic happen in his writing career as well as his advertising career. Good-natured but ultimately average AF, Ken was a dependable supporting character. 

Post-Mad Men, Staton performed in the video game L.A. Noire, which earned him a BAFTA for his performance. He’s recently has recurring roles a variety of TV shows, including Girlfriend’s Guide to Divorce, Ray Donovan and My Mother and Other Strangers.

Rich Sommer

Rich Sommer played the somewhat oafish Harry Crane on Mad Men. Ultimately harmless and a little bit feckless, Harry was a good team player when it came to getting the job done. 

Sommer, for his part, hasn’t slowed down since Mad Men ended. He’s become a part of the Netflix stable of actors, appearing on the original shows Glow, Love and Wet Hot American Summer: 10 Years Later. He’s also popped up on TV in a ton — no, really, a ton — of shows: Grey’s Anatomy, Adventure Time, Masters of Sex and Regular Show. Whew, that’s a lot of work. 

Jessica Paré

Megan Draper had big shoes to fill when she became Don’s second wife in Mad Men, and Jessica Paré had big shoes to fill when she joined the cast as the young, quiet, pretty replacement for Betty. 

While Paré hasn’t been in much television since her stint on AMC, she has been in several movies, including Standby, Brooklyn and Lovesick. The reason might be clear when you hear about her personal life. Paré started dating Canadian punk rocker John Kastner during the filming of Mad Men. They had their first child, a boy named Blues, right as the series ended. However, rumor has it that Paré has a big part in a new CBS pilot about Navy SEALs.

Jared Harris

English actor Jared Harris added some international flair to Mad Men when he joined the cast in the role of Lane Pryce. The definition of a gentleman, devoted to work and family, Lane was an esteemed member of the Sterling, Cooper, Draper & Pryce team — that is, until his untimely demise, which left the company forever changed.

Harris, who has been acting since the late ’80s in film and TV, has appeared in some exciting projects since his early exit on Mad Men. You may have seen him in TV shows like Fringe, The Expanse or Netflix’s The Crown. Or perhaps you saw him in big box office hits like Pompeii, Lincoln, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. or The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones.

Christopher Stanley

Handsome everyman Christopher Stanley played, for the better part of five seasons, Betty Draper’s second husband, Henry Francis. A local politician and interminably patient, Henry was the upstanding gentleman Betty deserved to end up with (even if she didn’t always treat him well). 

Stanley’s film and TV roles have been a bit fewer than his Mad Men counterparts, but when he does appear, it’s typically high-profile. Since the show ended, Stanley’s appeared in American Crime and the TV series Lethal Weapon, and you can see him in the upcoming TV series Kick.