Jesse Tyler Ferguson (born October 22, 1975) is an American actor known for portraying Mitchell Pritchett on the ABC sitcom Modern Family, which has earned him 3 nominations for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. Previously he played the role of Richie Velch in the CBS sitcom The Class.
Ferguson graduated from St. Pius X high school in 1994 and attended The American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA) in New York City. He worked mainly in off-Broadway and Broadway shows, including the Tony Award-winning, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, where he originated the role of Leaf Coneybear.
In the summer of 2007, Ferguson starred in the Public Theatre’s Shakespeare in the Park production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and co-starred in the 2008 thriller, Untraceable. At present, Ferguson plays the role of Mitchell Pritchett, the openly gay lawyer on the acclaimed ABC sitcom Modern Family. For his performance, Ferguson has received three consecutive Emmy Awardnominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series (2010, 2011 and 2012).
In March 2012, Ferguson was featured in a performance of Dustin Lance Black’s play, 8 – a staged reenactment of the federal trial that overturned California’s Prop 8 ban on same-sex marriage – as Dr. Ilan Meyer. The production was held at theWilshire Ebell Theatre and broadcast on YouTube to raise money for the American Foundation for Equal Rights, a non-profit organization funding the plaintiffs’ legal team and sponsoring the play. Commenting on Kirk Cameron’s remarks on the March 6, 2012 episode of Piers Morgan Tonight, in which Cameron called homosexuality unnatural and “detrimental to society”, Ferguson said “The only unnatural thing about me being gay is that I had a crush on Kirk Cameron until about 24 hours ago.”
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