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Jefferson Mays
Born: 8th Jun 1965 Connecticut, USA
Dept: Acting
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).
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 43
Film: 25 (58%)
Television: 18 (42%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Science Fiction, History, War
Filmography
2025
After wildfires take his ranch, a cowboy named Dusty winds up in a FEMA camp, finding community with others who lost homes, including his daughter and ... view
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Mr. Cassidy
2025
A woman is contacted out of the blue by the father she hasn't seen since age five. She soon discovers the real – and really strange – reason that ... view
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Dad
Original title: Seneca: On the Creation of Earthquakes
2023
Rome in 65 AD, Emperor Nero's tyrannical regime has reached its zenith, Nero's self-indulgence and excessiveness brings up the opposition against him, ... view
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Narrator (voice)
Mar 2022 (first aired)
Through Julia Child’s life and her singular joie de vivre, the series explores a pivotal time in American history – the emergence of public televi ... view
Character:
Albert Duhamel (8 ep.)
2021
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurre ... view
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Doctor
May 2021 (first aired)
Explore a dark mentorship that forms between Deborah Vance, a legendary Las Vegas comedian, and an entitled, outcast 25-year-old. ... view
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T.L. Gurley (2 ep.)
2020
The timeless tale of Ebenezer Scrooge comes to thrilling new life as Tony winner Jefferson Mays plays over 50 roles in a virtuosic masterclass of a pe ... view
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Narrator
Jun 2020 (first aired)
Set in 1932 Los Angeles, the series focuses on the origin story of famed defense lawyer Perry Mason. Living check-to-check as a low-rent private inves ... view
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Virgil Sheets (5 ep.)
Jan 2019 (first aired)
Fauna Hodel, who was given away by her teenage birth mother, begins to investigate the secrets to her past, following a sinister trail that swirls eve ... view
Character:
George Hodel (6 ep.)
2018
Vignettes weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the Civil War. Following the tales of a sharp-shooting songste ... view
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Gilbert Longabaugh (segment "The Gal Who Got Rattled")
2018
During a reluctant trip to her late Grandmother's home in the middle of nowhere, Nancy learns that a person's sentiment and complexities aren't limite ... view
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The Curator
2017
The life of celebrated but reclusive author J.D. Salinger, who gained worldwide fame with the publication of his novel The Catcher in the Rye. ... view
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William Maxwell
Oct 2016 (first aired)
A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past ... view
Character:
Liam Dempsey, Sr. (1 ep.)
2015
Henry’s and Fay's son Ned sets out to find and kill his father for destroying his mother's life. But his aims are frustrated by the troublesome Susa ... view
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Dr. Ford
Mar 2015 (first aired)
When a woman is rescued from a doomsday cult and lands in New York City, she must navigate a world she didn't think even existed anymore. ... view
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Daddy (voice) (1 ep.)
Daddy (1 ep.)
2015
The controversial true story of a gay activist who rejects his homosexuality and becomes a Christian pastor. ... view
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Preacher Teacher
2014
In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend. ... view
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Dr. Threeply
2014
In this chilling and lyrical reinterpretation of Edgar Allan Poe's poem, a narrator mourning the loss of his love, Lenore, wavers on the brink of insa ... view
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Voice over (voice)
2014
Deep beneath the streets of Italy lie the catacombs of the Montresors, filled with barrels of wine and the bones of the dead. One evening, friends For ... view
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Fortunato
2014
In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the tr ... view
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Community (voice)
2014
21 monologues written by American playwrights form a sort of fractured portrait of the American collective psyche. Ranging from the sad to the hilario ... view
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Sep 2013 (first aired)
Raymond "Red" Reddington, one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, surrenders in person at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He claims that he and t ... view
Character:
Norman Devane (1 ep.)
Jan 2013 (first aired)
Set during the Cold War period in the 1980s, The Americans is the story of Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, two Soviet KGB officers posing as an America ... view
Character:
Walter Taffet (4 ep.)
Sep 2009 (first aired)
Alicia Florrick boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corrup ... view
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Diplomat Van Buskirk (1 ep.)
Jun 2009 (first aired)
Every day is a matter of life and death in a hectic New York City hospital, but for Nurse Jackie that's the easiest part. Between chronic back pain th ... view
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Tim (1 ep.)
Jan 2009 (first aired)
The world's leading deception researcher, Dr. Cal Lightman, studies facial expression, body language and tone of voice to determine when a person is l ... view
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Sidney Carlton (1 ep.)
2008
Sidney Young is a down-on-his-luck journalist. Thanks to a stint involving a pig and a glitzy awards ceremony, Sidney turns his fortunes around, attra ... view
Character:
Bill Nathanson
Sep 2008 (first aired)
FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham, brilliant but formerly institutionalized scientist Walter Bishop and his scheming, reluctant son Peter uncover a dead ... view
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Nicholas Boone (1 ep.)
2006
Bettie Page grew up in a conservative religious family in Tennessee and became a photo model sensation in 1950s New York. Bettie's legendary pin-up ph ... view
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Little John
Jun 2005 (first aired)
Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson transfers from Atlanta to LA to head up a special unit of the LAPD that handles sensitive, high-profile murde ... view
Character:
Dr. Easton (1 ep.)
2005
Explores the famous 1938 heavyweight bout between German Max Schmeling and American Joe Louis and finds two men who, in the shadow of war, became relu ... view
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2004
A tale of a philosophical womanizer who is forced to question his seemingly carefree existence. ... view
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Dr. Miranda Kulp
Nov 2002 (first aired)
An epic yarn spanning most of the 18th century, the series follows Franklin's career from humble beginnings in Boston to international superstardom: f ... view
Character:
Elkanah Watson (3 ep.)
Sep 2001 (first aired)
The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological ... view
Character:
Keifer Gates (1 ep.)
Sep 1999 (first aired)
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate ... view
Character:
Carl Rudnick (7 ep.)
1999
Blake Pellarin is on the campaign trail to become president of the United States. While making a stop in St. Louis, a chance encounter brings his past ... view
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Garne Strickland
1998
In 19th century Paris, Bette Fischer, a poor and homely spinster, forms an alliance with the seductive courtesan Valerie Marneffe to orchestrate reven ... view
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Stidmann
1997
Hoping to help their marriage, a Manhattan lawyer (Rya Kihlstedt) brings her burned-out husband (Robert Stanton) to her mother's home upstate. ... view
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Nov 1997 (first aired)
Dramatic documentary about the birth of the American Republic and the struggle of a loosely connected group of states to become a nation. ... view
Character:
James Madison (6 ep.)
1995
Yale graduate John has come to Hollywood to catch his big break. It hasn't happened yet. ... view
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Hollywood Mogul
1994
25 years after committing a double murder, Karl Childers is going to be released from an institution for the criminally insane. A local reporter comes ... view
Character:
Gerry Woolridge
1993
During the Civil War, Confederate soldiers accidentally free an evil voodoo entity brought back by slave traders. The entity possesses the dead bodies ... view
Character:
Martin Bradley
Sep 1990 (first aired)
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someo ... view
Character:
Mr. Olson (1 ep.)