He is originally from Huntington, West Virginia. He grew up mostly in Jacksonville, Florida, and graduated from Terry Parker High School. He is married to actress Connie Fletcher. Staton is a 2004 graduate of the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama. Fletcher and Staton are expecting their first child together.
Career
He won a Screen Actors Guild Award, along with the rest of the Mad Men cast, for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in 2008 and 2009. Staton has also made appearances in television series such as Law & Order: SVU, 7th Heaven, and Without a Trace.
In 2011 he was featured as Detective Cole Phelps in the video game L.A. Noire.