Michael Burtch

Jon Hamm's entire life ran a decade behind schedule, and it kept working out. His mother died when he was 10. His father when he was 20. He spent his 20s waiting tables and teaching drama at his old high school in St. Louis. His agency dropped him. He gave himself until 30 to make it as an actor. Mad Men found him at 36. Then came 2015. The show ended, his 18-year relationship ended, and he went through rehab, all within months of each other. The final episode of Mad Men put Don Draper at a retreat in Big Sur, where a young actress played the receptionist who checks him in. Five years later, they started dating. In June 2023 he married her, at 52, on the exact patch of Big Sur coastline where they filmed that episode. Now he's expecting his first child at 55, with the woman from the final scene of the show that made him.