John Slattery

John Slattery, Actor: Mad Men. John Slattery was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Joan (Mulhern), a CPA, and John "Jack" Slattery, a leather merchant, both of Irish descent. John landed his first TV gig on the 1988 series Dirty Dozen: The Series (1988) and has worked steadily since then. His television career has included the short-lived series Under Cover (1991), Homefront (1991), Maggie (1998) and Feds (...

John M. Slattery, Jr. (born August 13, 1962)[2] is an American actor and director. He is best known for his role as Roger Sterling in the AMC drama series Mad Men and for his role as Howard Stark in cameo appearances in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Iron Man 2, Ant-Man, and Captain America: Civil War.

As booze-addled ad man Roger Sterling, he provides TV’s most talked-about drama with its most talked-about moments. But good luck getting John Slattery to talk about them, writes Helena de Bertodano.

Mr. Slattery walks the streets of the Village neighborhood where he and his wife once lived -- and walks away from Roger Sterling.

Roger Sterling (John Slattery) ducks out of the Sterling Cooper offices for a hotel-room romp with Jane Siegel (Peyton List), for whom he eventually divorces his wife in Season Two of Mad MenJohn Slattery gets paid to do all those terrible, unhealthy things that the rest of us can only dream about. Chain-smoke in public buildings. Drink bourbon at the office. Have extramarital affairs with busty secretaries. Eat too many raw oysters and then vomit on his clients. Ask Sarah Jessica Parker to pee on him. Okay, maybe just some of the things the rest of us dream about.There was a time when having a fictional urine fetish—which he did so memorably on Sex & The City, playing Carrie Bradshaw’s dirty, dirty politician boyfriend—looked like it may be the best and only legacy for the 46-year-old actor. Prior to his near-golden shower TV debut, Slattery was known mostly for small roles in shows like Homefront, Will & Grace and Judging Amy, among others. But then along came a little AMC series called Mad Men, a drama about Madison Avenue circa 1960, where public drunkenness and blatant sexism still ruled the land. Slattery plays ad agency exec Roger Sterling, a guy who loves sex and booze almost as much as ignoring the symptoms of his many heart attacks. “I’ve been living the last twenty years like I’m on shore leave,” he once proclaimed. Bold words coming from a man whose complexion resembles curdled milk.The third season of Mad Man —the finale airs on AMC this Sunday, November 8—has been a slow one for Slattery. But while Roger Sterling didn’t always have the biggest story arcs, he did have the best zingers of the season. “Let me put it in account terms,” he told an underling who had suggested to a client that they target ads to “negroes”. “Are you aware of the number of hand jobs I’m going to have to give?” Later, when a co-worker lost his foot in a lawn mower accident (“just when he got it in the door,” Sterling wise-cracked), Sterling surveyed the bloody carnage and remarked, “It looks like Iwo Jima in here.” And then there’s the already infamous story about his father, who drove his car into a tree during his fourth heart attack and was buried with one very manicured arm. I called Slattery to talk about the vicarious thrills of playing an unapologetic misogynistic lush.

Dodgy Roger: John Slattery as Mad Men's great hedonist, Roger Sterling.John Slattery plays the unapologetically sybaritic Roger Sterling, one of two named partners at the Sterling Cooper ad agency and arguably Mad Men’s least conflicted character. Last month, Slattery was nominated for an Emmy for his work on the series’ eventful second season, during which Roger left his wife for Don Draper’s secretary. As it happens, Mrs. Sterling is played by Talia Balsam, Slattery’s wife in real life. We spoke over breakfast in a homey restaurant not far from his apartment in Tribeca. [Read Bruce Handy’s feature story on Mad Men in this month’s issue.]Bruce Handy: Tell me about how you were cast in Mad Men.John Slattery: I read the pilot and thought it was different than most of the stuff that I had been looking at. I was asked to come in and read for the part of Don Draper, which was really the biggest draw. So I really did prepare the thing and went in and I worked hard on it and then read for Don and they actually gave me adjustments and I went and I did it again. And then they sort of said, “Well, look, here’s the deal. We have a guy. The reason we asked you to come in and read for Draper is because we didn’t think that you’d come in a read for Roger because there wasn’t that much Roger in the script.” So I was a little disappointed. I really liked the script, but I was less enthused now because I didn’t see the character on the page. And so many times you get told one thing and it turns out to be disappointing—you know, you’re just a fifth banana in something and you’re stuck because it’s TV and you signed a long contract. So I was wary [about playing Roger]. I was on the fence a little bit, even while shooting it. And I think Matt finally was like, “Look man, we’re not jerking you around here. We’re serious about this and I’ve really thought this out. I promise you this will be a great character and it will be a big part of the show.” But, you know, you hedge your bets emotionally, maybe. You think, well, all right, just in case this thing does turn out to be disappointing, I’m not really going to invest myself in it. I mean, I did my job. I did the scenes as well as I could. I didn’t tank it or anything, but, ah…

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John Slattery says ‘Mad Men’ ending is “both unpredictable and totally organic to the story”.

_GQ_ goes one-on-one with _Mad Men_'s Roger Sterling to talk about Matthew Weiner's contract dispute, being typecast, and growing into that gray mane

Last night’s episode of Mad Men was called “Far Away Places,” and perhaps no one traveled as far as Roger Sterling, the veteran ad man who, along with ...