Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Jesse Tyler Ferguson is an American actor best known for playing Mitchell Pritchett — one half of Modern Family's central gay couple, alongside Eric Stonestreet's Cameron — on Modern Family (2009), earning five Emmy nominations. Mitchell and Cameron's wedding in season five (2014) was one of the most-watched same-sex weddings in television history. Ferguson made his Broadway debut in On the Town and later earned a Tony nomination for Take Me Out, alongside credits including Fully Committed and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. He has been openly gay throughout his career and married attorney Justin Mikita in 2013, just before his character's on-screen wedding; the two co-founded Tie the Knot, a nonprofit that sells bow ties to raise money for marriage equality. Since 2023 he has hosted the food-and-conversation podcast Dinner's on Me.