Jesse Tyler Ferguson

American actor

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Born: 1975
Works: 1

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Food Between Friends

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Acting · Missoula, Montana, USA

Jesse Tyler Ferguson is an American actor and Tony Award winner. He's best known for his role as Mitchell Pritchett on the sitcom Modern Family from 2009 to 2020. For his performance, he received five consecutive Primetime Emmy nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. Ferguson has also won an Outer Critics Circle Award for his role in Take Me Out. Since Modern Family ended…

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Stop! That! Train! — Business Person2026
All That We Love — Stan2025
A Very Jonas Christmas Movie — Santa2025
Twelfth Night — Andrew Aguecheek2025
Mid-Century Modern — Tevin2025
The Great American Baking Show: Celebrity Summer2025
Elsbeth — Skip Mason2024
Dinner Time Live with David Chang — Self

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Jesse Tyler Ferguson (born October 22, 1975) is an American actor. From 2009 to 2020, he portrayed Mitchell Pritchett on the sitcom Modern Family, for which he earned five consecutive nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. He is also known for his theatrical work, winning a Tony Award in 2022 for Best Featured Actor in a Play for Take Me Out, and originating the role of Leaf Coneybear in the original Broadway cast of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee in 2006.

Ferguson made his Broadway debut in On the Town (1998), He has appeared in numerous productions of Shakespeare in the Park, acting in A Midsummer Night's Dream (2007), A Winter's Tale (2010), The Merchant of Venice (2010), The Tempest (2015), and Twelfth Night; or What You Will (2025). In 2016, he starred on Broadway in Fully Committed, for which he won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance.