
Jefferson Mays
Known for ActingBorn 1965-06-08 (age 60)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
★ 10.0View details →
Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
2020 · Movie
★ 8.0View details →
Westworld
2016 · Series
★ 8.1View details →
Fringe
2008 · Series
★ 7.9View details →
The Americans
2013 · Series
★ 7.9View details →
Lie to Me
2009 · Series
★ 8.0View details →
Hudson River Blues
1997 · Movie
★ 7.9View details →
The Closer
2005 · Series
★ 7.9View details →
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999 · Series
★ 7.8View details →
Liberty!
1997 · Series
★ 7.6View details →
The Blacklist
2013 · Series
★ 7.6View details →
The Good Wife
2009 · Series
★ 7.5View details →
Hacks
2021 · Series
★ 7.6View details →
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001 · Series
★ 7.3View details →
Julia
2022 · Series
★ 7.2View details →
Perry Mason
2020 · Series
★ 7.1View details →
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2018 · Movie
★ 7.1View details →
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
2015 · Series
★ 7.2View details →
The Fight
2005 · Movie
★ 7.3View details →
Law & Order
1990 · Series
★ 7.1View details →
Nurse Jackie
2009 · Series
★ 6.9View details →
The Tragedy of Macbeth
2021 · Movie
★ 6.6View details →
Rebel in the Rye
2017 · Movie
★ 6.5View details →
Rebuilding
2025 · Movie
★ 6.7View details →
Benjamin Franklin
2002 · Series
★ 6.5View details →
I Am the Night
2019 · Series
★ 6.6View details →
The Giver
2014 · Movie
★ 6.5View details →
Inherent Vice
2014 · Movie
★ 6.7View details →
Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade
1994 · Movie
★ 6.3View details →
The Notorious Bettie Page
2006 · Movie
★ 6.0View details →
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
2008 · Movie
★ 5.8View details →
Ned Rifle
2015 · Movie
★ 5.9View details →
Alfie
2004 · Movie
★ 5.5View details →
I Am Michael
2015 · Movie
★ 5.5View details →
Cousin Bette
1998 · Movie
★ 5.4View details →
The Low Life
1995 · Movie
★ 5.0View details →
Seneca
2023 · Movie
★ 5.1View details →
Grey Knight
1993 · Movie
★ 4.8View details →
Curated
2018 · Movie
★ 4.6View details →
The Big Brass Ring
1999 · Movie
Weathermaker
View details →
Weathermaker
2025 · Movie

View details →
The Cask of Amontillado
2014 · Movie
The Raven
View details →
The Raven
2014 · Movie

View details →
My America
2014 · Movie