Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Jesse Tyler Ferguson (b. 1975) is an American actor. His television and film credits include Mitchell Pritchett in Modern Family, Richie Velch in The Class, a young Tom Hemings in Sally Hemings: An American Scandal, Dr. Gave Farkus in Ugly Betty and a guest judge in So You Think You Can Dance.

Ferguson will appear on Sesame Street to explain the word "fragile" in a Season 42 Word of the Day segment.

Among Ferguson's stage credits are On the Town (as Chip), Little Fish (as Marco), Hair (as Margaret Mead), A Midsummer Night's Dream (as Francis Flute), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Be (as Leaf Coneybear), On the Twentieth Century (as Max Jacobs) and The Merchant of Venice (as Launcelot Gobbo).