What is Jon Hamm's best TV role?

He's slipped from a brooding ad man into cult leaders, archangels and small-screen villains, with a few comedic curveballs along the way. Which performance stands tallest?

1. 1
   Don Draper

   Jon Hamm's career-defining role as the brilliant, troubled ad executive in AMC's Mad Men, which won him an Emmy.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Roy Tillman

   A menacing, self-styled constitutional sheriff in the fifth season of FX's Fargo.
   689pts
3. 3
   Paul Marks

   The charismatic tech billionaire who tries to acquire the network in Apple TV+'s The Morning Show.
   517pts
4. 4
   Monty Miller

   The oil-company boss in Taylor Sheridan's Paramount+ drama Landman.
   423pts
5. 5
   Matt Trent

   The smooth, sinister salesman in the chilling Black Mirror feature episode White Christmas.
   423pts
6. 6
   Dr. Drew Baird

   The impossibly handsome, oblivious love interest of Liz Lemon in NBC's 30 Rock.
   310pts
7. 7
   The Falcon

   An action-hero camp counselor in the Netflix prequel Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp.
   310pts
8. 8
   Reverend Richard Wayne Gary Wayne

   The cult-leader antagonist in Netflix's Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, a role that earned him an Emmy nomination.
   0pts
9. 9
   Andrew "Coop" Cooper

   A divorced hedge-fund manager who starts burgling his wealthy neighbors in Apple TV+'s Your Friends & Neighbors, Hamm's 2025 return to a leading TV role.
10. 10
    Archangel Gabriel

    The vain, oblivious Archangel Gabriel in Prime Video's Good Omens, who arrives with no memory and drives the plot of the show's 2023 second season.
11. 11
    Fred Heckman

    A veteran Indianapolis radio newsman drawn into a real 63-hour hostage standoff from 1977 in MGM+'s 2026 true-crime drama American Hostage.
12. 12
    The Older Doctor

    The older, morphine-haunted self of Daniel Radcliffe's country doctor in the darkly comic A Young Doctor's Notebook, adapted from Mikhail Bulgakov's stories.
13. 13
    Burt Ridley

    A firefighter who grew from a single guest spot into a 19-episode recurring part in NBC's family drama Providence, Hamm's first major TV role.
14. 14
    Nate Basso

    A police inspector in Lifetime's San Francisco crime drama The Division, a recurring early-2000s role that helped establish Hamm before Mad Men.

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