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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
June 8, 1965
Place of Birth
Connecticut, USA
Also Known As
- Lewis Jefferson Mays
Jefferson Mays
0.4 Popularity
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
6.7
Mr. Cassidy
Rebuilding
2025
🎬
0.0
Dad
Weathermaker
2025
4.9
Narrator (voice)
Seneca
2023
7.3
Albert Duhamel
Julia
2022
6.9
Doctor
The Tragedy of Macbeth
2021
7.5
T.L. Gurley
Hacks
2021
10.0
Narrator
Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
2020
7.2
Virgil Sheets
Perry Mason
2020
6.5
George Hodel
I Am the Night
2019
7.1
Gilbert Longabaugh (segment "The Gal Who Got Rattled")
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2018
Credits
Rebuilding
as Mr. Cassidy
2025
6.7
🎬
Weathermaker
as Dad
2025
0.0
Seneca
as Narrator (voice)
2023
4.9
Julia
as Albert Duhamel
2022
7.3
The Tragedy of Macbeth
as Doctor
2021
6.9
Hacks
as T.L. Gurley
2021
7.5
Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
as Narrator
2020
10.0
Perry Mason
as Virgil Sheets
2020
7.2
I Am the Night
as George Hodel
2019
6.5
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
as Gilbert Longabaugh (segment "The Gal Who Got Rattled")
2018
7.1
Curated
as The Curator
2018
4.8
Rebel in the Rye
as William Maxwell
2017
6.6
Westworld
as Liam Dempsey, Sr.
2016
8.0
Ned Rifle
as Dr. Ford
2015
5.8
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
as Daddy (voice)
2015
7.1
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
as Daddy
2015
7.1
I Am Michael
as Preacher Teacher
2015
5.5
Inherent Vice
as Dr. Threeply
2014
6.5
🎬
The Raven
as Voice over (voice)
2014
0.0
The Cask of Amontillado
as Fortunato
2014
0.0
The Giver
as Community (voice)
2014
6.6
My America
2014
0.0
The Blacklist
as Norman Devane
2013
7.6
The Americans
as Walter Taffet
2013
7.9
The Good Wife
as Diplomat Van Buskirk
2009
7.6
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
as Bill Nathanson
2008
6.0
Fringe
as Nicholas Boone
2008
8.1
The Notorious Bettie Page
as Little John
2005
6.3
The Closer
as Dr. Easton
2005
7.9
The Fight
2005
7.0
Alfie
as Dr. Miranda Kulp
2004
5.8
🎬
Benjamin Franklin
as Elkanah Watson
2002
5.9
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Keifer Gates
2001
7.6
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Carl Rudnick
1999
7.9
The Big Brass Ring
as Garne Strickland
1999
4.2
Cousin Bette
as Stidmann
1998
5.5
Hudson River Blues
1997
0.0
Liberty!
as James Madison
1997
7.8
The Low Life
as Hollywood Mogul
1995
5.1
Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade
as Gerry Woolridge
1994
6.6
Grey Knight
as Martin Bradley
1993
4.7
Law & Order
as Mr. Olson
1990
7.4