Ben Feldman

Feldman was born in Potomac, Maryland. His mother is Kris Feldman,[1] and his father, Robert "Bob" Feldman, runs a Maryland advertising agency.[2][3] Feldman was raised in his father's faith, attending Conservative Jewish and Orthodox Jewish synagogues and schools.[4][5] He has a sister, Morgan.[1] His maternal aunt, Susan Feniger, is a chef in Los Angeles.[6]

He was involved in camp and school theater from the age of 6. He attended Winston Churchill High School in Potomac. He worked as a camp counselor in the theater and taught a videography class for several summers in Bethesda, and attended Ithaca College in New York, where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in acting.[7]

After graduating, he moved to New York City, where he performed on Broadway and eventually moved to Los Angeles to act in film and television.[8]

From 2009 to 2011, he was a regular on the television series Drop Dead Diva in the role of guardian angel Fred before leaving the series at the start of the fourth season.[9] In April 2012, he joined the cast of AMC's Mad Men as a regular, playing the character Michael Ginsberg.[10] More recently Feldman appeared as Ron LaFlamme on HBO's Silicon Valley[11] from 2014 to 2019, and since 2015, has played the lead Jonah Simms in the NBC sitcom Superstore.[12]

Feldman resides in Los Angeles, California. In 2012, he became engaged to Michelle Mulitz.[13] They were married on October 12, 2013, at Smokey Glen Farm in Gaithersburg, Maryland.[14][15]

In June 2017, it was announced that they were expecting their first child.[16] On October 24, 2017, the couple welcomed their son Charlie.[17] Their second child, a daughter, was born in May 2019.[18]

• Ben Feldman at IMDb
• Ben Feldman at the Internet Broadway Database
• Angelica Cellars
• Ben Feldman's biography on Filmbug