Which actor played Stan Rizzo, the art director who joins SCDP on Mad Men?

Jay R. Ferguson played Stan Rizzo, the art director who joins Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce on Mad Men.

Stan is introduced as a creative professional with a background at Doyle Dane Bernbach and experience working on Lyndon B. Johnson’s 1964 presidential campaign. He joins SCDP after Salvatore Romano’s departure and becomes a recurring presence in the agency’s art department.

Initially, Stan clashes with Peggy Olson. His abrasive, macho attitude leads him to underestimate her, but Peggy turns the confrontation around by calling his bluff during a provocative workplace challenge. Their relationship gradually develops into a productive creative partnership.

Stan is sometimes confused with Aaron Staton’s Ken Cosgrove, another SCDP employee, or Ben Feldman’s Michael Ginsberg, who joins later as a copywriter. Stan remains with the agency through its successive reorganizations and becomes one of the creative staff members who survives the firm’s major cuts.