Mason Vale Cotton (born June 25, 2002) is an American actor known for his roles as M.J. Delfino in the ABC soap opera Desperate Housewives (2008–2012) and as Bobby Draper in the AMC drama series Mad Men (2012–2015), the latter of which earned him a nomination for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in 2016.
[1] He was born on June 25, 2002, in San Diego, California, and began acting with an uncredited role in the 2006 television special A Dennis the Menace Christmas.
Cotton then continued his career as a child actor in the AMC drama series Mad Men (2012–2015) as Bobby Draper, a role that garnered him a nomination at the 2016 Screen Actors Guild Awards, in the category of Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series as part of the series' ensemble cast.
Additionally, he provided additional voices for the 2011 animated film Happy Feet Two and played Max in the film Russell Madness (2015) and its 2020 series spinoff Russell Maniac.
In 2017, he voiced the title character in the television film Hey Arnold!