Mad Men, the AMC period drama about Manhattan advertising executives in the 1960s, was the major turning point in Jon Hamm‘s career. Starting out in the art department for softcore adult movies, Hamm landed the leading role of Don Draper in the series and his career skyrocketed exponentially. A complex and emotionally selfish survivor of the Vietnam War, Draper is one of the leading executives in Manhattan with a convoluted past strung on a web of lies. However, after the show wrapped its 7th Season in 2014, Hamm struggled with typecasting, and had to make a drastic change to prove casting agents wrong.