Known For
Acting
Born
Jun 08, 1965
Place of Birth
Connecticut, USA
Credits
44 titles
Jefferson Mays
Biography
Jefferson Mays (born Lewis Jefferson Mays; June 8, 1965) is an American film, stage and television actor. Mays was raised in Clinton, Connecticut with his parents, a naval intelligence officer and a children's librarian, and his siblings. Mays graduated from Yale College, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree, and the University of California, San Diego, where he earned a Master of Fine Arts. Mays appeared on Broadway in I Am My Own Wife, a Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Doug Wright, from November 2003 (previews) to October 31, 2004. He had appeared in the play Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in May 2003, and at the La Jolla Playhouse in July 2001. Mays won the 2004 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play, the 2004 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show, an Obie Award, and a 2004 Theatre World Award for his solo performance. He also won the 2007 Helpmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Play for seasons of I Am My Own Wife in Australia in 2006. In 2007, he appeared as Henry Higgins in a revival of Pygmalion and starred as Private Mason in a revival of Journey's End. In August 2009, Mays appeared at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Quartermaine's Terms by Simon Grey. Mays starred in the 2013 Broadway musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, in which he played eight roles. He won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical. He also was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical and tied for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical (with Neil Patrick Harris).
Known For
Filmography
Los Vampires
George Wilmore
Rebuilding
Mr. Cassidy
Weathermaker
Dad
Seneca
Narrator (voice)
Julia
Albert Duhamel
The Tragedy of Macbeth
Doctor
Hacks
T.L. Gurley
Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
Narrator
Perry Mason
Virgil Sheets
I Am the Night
George Hodel
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Gilbert Longabaugh (segment "The Gal Who Got Rattled")
Curated
The Curator
Rebel in the Rye
William Maxwell
Westworld
Liam Dempsey, Sr.
Ned Rifle
Dr. Ford
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Daddy (voice)
I Am Michael
Preacher Teacher
Inherent Vice
Dr. Threeply
The Raven
Voice over (voice)
The Cask of Amontillado
Fortunato
The Giver
Community (voice)
My America
The Blacklist
Norman Devane
The Americans
Walter Taffet
The Good Wife
Diplomat Van Buskirk
Nurse Jackie
Tim
Lie to Me
Sidney Carlton
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
Bill Nathanson
Fringe
Nicholas Boone
The Notorious Bettie Page
Little John
The Closer
Dr. Easton
The Fight
Alfie
Dr. Miranda Kulp
Benjamin Franklin
Elkanah Watson
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Keifer Gates
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Carl Rudnick
The Big Brass Ring
Garne Strickland
Cousin Bette
Stidmann
Hudson River Blues
Eric
Liberty!
James Madison
The Low Life
Hollywood Mogul
Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade
Gerry Woolridge
Grey Knight
Martin Bradley
Law & Order
Mr. Olson