<P> He starred in the 1999 romantic comedy Undercover Angel with Yasmine Bleeth and the 2002 direct - to - video horror film Hellraiser: Hellseeker . He played Tom in PS, I Love You . Winters played Detective Sam Tyler's father in the US version of Life On Mars . He also played Charley Dixon, Sarah Connor's love interest, in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles . </P> <P> Winters was cast in the ABC drama pilot Happy Town, from the creators of October Road, but was replaced by Steven Weber after shooting the pilot . </P> <P> On June 20, 2010, Winters was introduced as "Mayhem", the recurring character in a new television and radio advertising campaign for Allstate Insurance created by the agency Leo Burnett Chicago . </P> <P> Winters co-starred in one season of the CBS Network cop drama series Battle Creek, playing a small town police force detective opposite Josh Duhamel, the FBI Resident Agent assigned to the town . The series was cancelled in May 2015 . Most recently, he reprised his role on Brooklyn Nine - Nine as The Vulture and had a supporting role as a divorce attorney on the HBO series Divorce . In 2018, he was cast as Mr. Town in the second season of Starz American Gods . </P>

Who is the actor that plays mayhem in the insurance commercials