James Wolk Debuts on ‘Mad Men’: What’s With His Character?

One of the new characters Matthew Weiner introduced on Sunday's Mad Men's season 6 premiere was Bob Benson, a hyper-enthusiastic, brown-nosing accounts employee at Sterling Draper Cooper Pryce portrayed by James Wolk.

As Bob, Wolk -- who resembles a younger and more dashing Kyle Chandler, with his blue eyes, dark hair and wholesome demeanor -- attempts to get into the good graces of Don Draper (Jon Hamm), the superstar adman he's always wanted to meet. Bob fetches Don coffee and hangs out in near Don's office, waiting to catch the busy, perpetually-in-crisis firm heavyweight's eye. While he loiters, secret sci-fi writer Ken Grosgrove (Aaron Staton), apparently no big fan of Bob, stares him down and scares him away. Something says this won't be the last we see of the bright-eyed, bushy-tailed Don admirer.

And there's something about Wolk -- an intelligence and intensity -- that makes him more than just a pretty face. The 28-year-old actor has racked up a host of TV credits with a leading role on the short-lived Fox series Lone Star and recurring parts on Showtime's Shameless and ABC's Happy Endings. The Michigan native also portrayed Sigourney Weaver's son in the 2012 USA mini-series Political Animals, featuring Weaver as a Hillary Clinton-esque Secretary of State. His film credits include the phone-sex comedy For a Good Time, Call ... .