- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- June 8, 1965
- Place of Birth
- Connecticut, USA
Jefferson Mays
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 2…
Filmography
movieRebuilding
2025 · Mr. Cassidy
Weathermaker
movieWeathermaker
2025 · Dad
movieSeneca
2023 · Narrator (voice)
tvJulia
2022 · Albert Duhamel
movieThe Tragedy of Macbeth
2021 · Doctor
tvHacks
2021 · T.L. Gurley
movieCharles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
2020 · Narrator, Writer
tvPerry Mason
2020 · Virgil Sheets
tvI Am the Night
2019 · George Hodel
movieThe Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2018 · Gilbert Longabaugh (segment "The Gal Who Got Rattled")
movieCurated
2018 · The Curator
movieRebel in the Rye
2017 · William Maxwell
tvWestworld
2016 · Liam Dempsey, Sr.
movieNed Rifle
2015 · Dr. Ford
tvUnbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
2015 · Daddy (voice)
movieI Am Michael
2015 · Preacher Teacher
movieInherent Vice
2014 · Dr. Threeply
The Raven
movieThe Raven
2014 · Voice over (voice)
movieThe Cask of Amontillado
2014 · Fortunato
movieThe Giver
2014 · Community (voice)
movieMy America
2014
tvThe Blacklist
2013 · Norman Devane
tvThe Americans
2013 · Walter Taffet
tvThe Good Wife
2009 · Diplomat Van Buskirk
tvNurse Jackie
2009 · Tim
tvLie to Me
2009 · Sidney Carlton
movieHow to Lose Friends & Alienate People
2008 · Bill Nathanson
tvFringe
2008 · Nicholas Boone
movieThe Notorious Bettie Page
2006 · Little John
tvThe Closer
2005 · Dr. Easton
movieThe Fight
2005
movieAlfie
2004 · Dr. Miranda Kulp
tvBenjamin Franklin
2002 · Elkanah Watson
tvLaw & Order: Criminal Intent
2001 · Keifer Gates
tvLaw & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999 · Carl Rudnick
movieThe Big Brass Ring
1999 · Garne Strickland
movieCousin Bette
1998 · Stidmann
movieHudson River Blues
1997
tvLiberty!
1997 · James Madison
movieThe Low Life
1995 · Hollywood Mogul
movieSome Folks Call It a Sling Blade
1994 · Gerry Woolridge
movieGrey Knight
1993 · Martin Bradley
tvLaw & Order
1990 · Mr. Olson
movieLos Vampires
— · George Wilmore