John Pyper-Ferguson is an Australian-born Canadianactor. He has appeared in a wide range of films and television shows. His notable works include playing Sonny Hamilton on Hamilton's Quest, Peter Hutter on The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., and Joe Whedon on Brothers & Sisters. He also portrayed Tomas Vergis on the science fiction dramatelevision seriesCaprica, Tex on the TNTtelevision series The Last Ship, as well as Jack Soloff on USA Network's television series Suits.
Pyper-Ferguson began his acting career on the prime timedramaHamilton's Quest as Sonny Hamilton. This brought about Hollywoodfilm roles in movies such as ', Pin, Ski School, Bird on a Wire, Stay Tuned, a brief appearance in Unforgiven, and Killer Image. He concurrently continued his television career with several guest appearances, including shows like Night Heat, 21 Jump Street as Joshua, Bordertown as August Fox and Lonny Gibbons, Neon Rider as Zak and Det. Miller, MacGyver, ', and Walker, Texas Ranger. From 1993 to 1994, John played a recurring character on The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. as Pete Hutter. A significant moment in his career was his portrayal of Brian Cullen on ', for which he earned a Gemini Award-nomination, Best Performance by an Actor in a Guest RoleDramatic Series. Subsequent television guest roles consist of his appearances on Children of the Dust, Legend., Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years, recurrences on The X-Files as Paul and Det. John Kresge, Nash Bridges as Zack Spears, and The Outer Limits as Brian Chason. The following credits are The Sentinel, Millennium as Jim Gilroy, Jake Waterston and Ben Fisher, ', , Harsh Realm, and finally Jack & Jill as Kevin. Filling out the rest of the decade, he appears in several feature films like Frank & Jesse as Clell Miller, Hard Core Logo, For Richer or Poorer, Drive, and I'll Take You There''.
2000–present
He started appearing on the television series Arli$$, ER, ' as Husband and Dr. William Byrne, a recurring role on The Huntress as Jake Blumenthal, The Outer Limits as Dr. Kenneth Vaughn, Jack & Jill as Kevin, The Guardian, 24, a recurring role as Gabriel Sims on Jeremiah, Smallville, ', Into the West as Josiah Bell, The Closer, and Night Stalker as Agent Bernard Fain. In 2006, John Pyper-Ferguson joined the main cast of Brothers & Sisters as a series regular, playing the character Joe Whedon. From 2007 to 2011, his television credits are Everest as Roger Marshall, Cane as Hudson, The L Word, Cold Case as Pete Doyle, Fear Itself as Rowdy Edlund, ', Bones, Mental, Lie to Me, Flashpoint, Criminal Minds, Lost, White Collar, Dark Blue, Castle, Hellcats, Alphas, and a performance on the science fiction series Fringe, as two alternate versions of the character named John McClennan. His film career moved on to notable movies like Pearl Harbor, Black Dawn, She's the Man, ', Tekken, ', A Night for Dying Tigers, Conviction, Born to Race, and Drive. From 2005 to 2013, Pyper-Ferguson was cast in an abundance of TV shows set in the reimagined BSG universe. On the space operathriller series Battlestar Galactica he played Captain Cole "Stinger" Taylor. On its science fiction drama prequel Caprica, he portrayed Tomas Vergis, the Tauron billionaire and adversary of Daniel Graystone, with whom he—on multiple occasions—goes head-to-head. He played Xander Toth in the military science fiction television pilot entitled '. In 2014, Pyper-Ferguson began appearing as Tex, a special forces soldier, during the first season of the TNT drama The Last Ship; in the second season, he was upped to the regular cast on the show. However, his character was killed off at the end of season three though he reprised the role briefly in the series finale. In 2015, he appeared as Jack Soloff, a recurring character on the USA Network drama Suits. In 2017, he appeared as a guest in season four of The 100 as Bill Cadogan, the leader of the Second Dawndoomsday cult. In season seven, he reprised the role as a recurring character. He is playing a character named Jack Jones in the upcoming film, Three Days in Havana.
