Jared Gilmore

In just a few short years, Jared S. Gilmore managed to release himself of the anchor that is the label "the third Bobby Draper," graduating from the supporting part on "Mad Men" (AMC 2007-2015) to film roles and network stardom. Since outgrowing his aforementioned tenure as Jon Hamm's wide-eyed son in 2010, the teenaged actor has gone on to seize a focal position on the fantasy drama "Once Upon a Time" (ABC 2011-), successfully jumping between the kingdoms of Sterling Cooper and Storybrooke. It would seem that Gilmore had acting on the mind from day one. Born in San Diego, California, he spent two years at the city's John Robert Powers' training school for budding performers. However, Gilmore has indicated in interviews that his career came about by chance after he met with talent agents who were initially interested in contracting his twin sister Taylor Gilmore. Gilmore's first onscreen role took form as a satirical jab at Bill O'Reilly. Beginning in 2008, the then eight-year-old Gilmore played a child version of the conservative pundit on nine episodes of "Spike Feresten's Talkshow" (Fox 2006-09). The following year, Gilmore won the role that would introduce his face to the critical community: Bobby Draper, son of Jon Hamm's series hero Don Draper on "Mad Men." Joining the cast in the third season, Gilmore usurped the role from Aaron Hart (who himself was the second child to take on the role, after Season 1's Maxwell Huckabee). During Gilmore's reign as the younger of the Draper children, he landed appearances in the little seen family film "Opposite Day" (2009), the Jennifer Lopez romantic comedy "The Back-up Plan" (2010), and a string of episodes on Jada Pinkett Smith's medical drama "Hawthorne" (TNT 2009-2011). After his tenure on the AMC favorite, Gilmore took a more focal role on the ABC series "Once Upon a Time," as one of the program's most prominent characters: Henry Mills, the biological son of series heroine Emma Swan and adopted child of the Evil Queen. In 2012, Gilmore earned a Young Artist Award for his role in the category of Best Performance in a TV Series - Leading Young Actor; he earned a second nomination the following year