Aaron Staton is an American actor. He is known for his role as Ken Cosgrove in Mad Men (2007–present) and his role as Cole Phelps in the video game L.A. Noire. He was born August 1980 in Huntington, West Virginia. His birthdate has been incorrectly posted as February 1978. He grew up mostly in Jacksonville, Florida, and graduated from Terry Parker High School in 1998. Staton is a 2004 graduate of the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama. He is married to actress Connie Fletcher. Fletcher gave birth to their first child, a son named Beckett, on June 29, 2010. He won a Screen Actors Guild Award, along with the rest of the Mad Men cast, for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in 2008 and 2009. Staton has also made appearances in television series such as Law & Order: SVU, 7th Heaven, and Without a Trace. He has done extensive voice and facial acting for the video game L.A. Noire, in which he plays the main protagonist Cole Phelps.