Jefferson Mays

Known for ActingBorn 1965-06-08 (age 61)Connecticut, USA

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).Read more

Movies & web series

Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol

Westworld

Fringe

The Americans

Hudson River Blues

Lie to Me

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

The Closer

Liberty!

The Blacklist

The Good Wife

Hacks

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Julia

Perry Mason

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

The Fight

Law & Order

Nurse Jackie

The Tragedy of Macbeth

Rebel in the Rye

Rebuilding

Benjamin Franklin

I Am the Night

The Giver

Inherent Vice

Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade

The Notorious Bettie Page

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

Ned Rifle

Alfie

I Am Michael

Cousin Bette

The Low Life

Seneca

Grey Knight

Curated

The Big Brass Ring

Weathermaker

The Cask of Amontillado

My America

The Raven