WHERE ARE THE ‘MAD’ STARS NOW?
AMC’s Mad Men premiered 10 years ago, on July 19, 2007, running for seven critically adored seasons. What have its stars been up to since the hit ’60s drama went off the air in 2015? USA TODAY’s Patrick Ryan takes a look back and sees where they landed.
JOHN HAMM
THEN: Jon Hamm created one of TV’s most memorable antiheroes in Don Draper, a tortured, Old Fashioned-swilling ad man with a secret past and a knack for heart-tugging pitches.
NOW: The charismatic actor has tapped into his funny side ever since hanging up Draper’s suit, appearing in offbeat TV comedies
Children’s Hospital and Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of
Camp, and earning a guest-actor Emmy nomination playing cult leader Reverend Richard Wayne Gary Wayne in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. He currently co-stars in Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver with Eiza Gonzalez as a sexy outlaw couple.
ELISABETH MOSS
Elisabeth Moss made a THEN: feminist icon of Peggy Olson, an unflappable copywriter and Don’s evenly matched protégé.
The prolific actress has NOW: starred in the most critically acclaimed projects of her Mad
Men co-stars, earning her eighth Emmy nomination for Hulu’s politically charged dystopian drama The Handmaid’s Tale and appearing in Swedish satire The
Square, a bonkers morality play that won the Palme d’Or award at the Cannes Film Festival in May. Next up, she returns as tormented detective Robin Griffin in SundanceTV’s Top of the Lake:
China Girl in September.
JANUARY JONES
January Jones brought THEN: quiet power to frustrated housewife and domineering mother Betty Draper, who was (perhaps unfairly) the series’ most disliked character.
When she’s not posting NOW: hilariously captioned photos on Instagram, the former Mrs. Draper can be seen on Fox’s The Last
Man on Earth, playing the onetime love interest of Will Forte’s wacky apocalypse survivor for three seasons.
CHRISTINA HENDRICKS
Christina Hendricks THEN: brought beauty and brains to knockout secretary Joan Holloway, who worked her way up to partner at Sterling Cooper & Partners.
Hendricks has racked up a NOW: varied résumé, appearing in last summer’s macabre thriller The Neon Demon, Comedy Central’s
Downton Abbey spoof Another Period and last spring ’s Fist Fight with Tracy Morgan. On the horizon, she stars opposite Glenn Close in Agatha Christie’s
Crooked House, Uzo Aduba in motherhood comedy Egg and Retta in NBC drama series Good Girls.
KIERNAN SHIPKA
THEN: Kiernan Shipka showed poise beyond her years as Don and Betty’s perceptive daughter, Sally, who endured years of problematic parenting and managed to come out on top.
The 17-year-old style icon NOW: has grown into more mature roles, playing a murderous boarding-school student in indie horror film The Blackcoat’s Daughter and the petulant real-life daughter of Susan Sarandon’s Bette Davis in FX’s Emmy-nominated miniseries Feud: Bette and Joan.