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Jefferson Mays

Jefferson Mays

Actor · Born 1965-06-08 · Connecticut, USA

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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 Qu…

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Westworld (2016) — Liam Dempsey, Sr.
  2. The Giver (2014) — Community (voice)
  3. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) — Gilbert Longabaugh (segment "The Gal Who Got Rattled")
  4. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) — Carl Rudnick
  5. The Blacklist (2013) — Norman Devane
  6. Fringe (2008) — Nicholas Boone
  7. Inherent Vice (2014) — Dr. Threeply
  8. Lie to Me (2009) — Sidney Carlton
  9. The Americans (2013) — Walter Taffet
  10. Alfie (2004) — Dr. Miranda Kulp
  11. The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) — Doctor
  12. How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008) — Bill Nathanson
  13. Law & Order (1990) — Mr. Olson
  14. The Good Wife (2009) — Diplomat Van Buskirk
  15. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2015) — Daddy (voice)
  16. Perry Mason (2020) — Virgil Sheets
  17. Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001) — Keifer Gates
  18. Hacks (2021) — T.L. Gurley
  19. The Closer (2005) — Dr. Easton
  20. Rebel in the Rye (2017) — William Maxwell
  21. Nurse Jackie (2009) — Tim
  22. I Am Michael (2015) — Preacher Teacher
  23. The Notorious Bettie Page (2006) — Little John
  24. I Am the Night (2019) — George Hodel
  25. Rebuilding (2025) — Mr. Cassidy
  26. Julia (2022) — Albert Duhamel
  27. Ned Rifle (2015) — Dr. Ford
  28. Cousin Bette (1998) — Stidmann
  29. Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade (1994) — Gerry Woolridge
  30. Seneca (2023) — Narrator (voice)
  31. The Big Brass Ring (1999) — Garne Strickland
  32. Grey Knight (1993) — Martin Bradley
  33. Liberty! (1997) — James Madison
  34. The Low Life (1995) — Hollywood Mogul
  35. The Fight (2005)
  36. Benjamin Franklin (2002) — Elkanah Watson
  37. Curated (2018) — The Curator
  38. Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol (2020) — Narrator
  39. Hudson River Blues (1997)
  40. The Cask of Amontillado (2014) — Fortunato