Jefferson Mays
Birthday
1965/06/08 (59 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Connecticut, USA
Also know as
Lewis Jefferson Mays
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, fro...Read more
Acting
(1994) Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade
as Gerry Woolridge
(2021) The Tragedy of Macbeth
as Doctor
(1999) The Big Brass Ring
as Garne Strickland
(2015) I Am Michael
as Preacher Teacher
(2023) Seneca
as Narrator (voice)
(2014) The Cask of Amontillado
as Fortunato
(2025) Rebuilding
as ---
(2014) My America
as ---
(2017) Rebel in the Rye
as William Maxwell
(2014) The Raven
as Voice over (voice)
(2015) Ned Rifle
as Dr. Ford
(2014) Inherent Vice
as Dr. Threeply
(2014) The Giver
as Community (voice)
(2005) The Notorious Bettie Page
as Little John
(2018) Curated
as The Curator
(2018) The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
as Gilbert Longabaugh (segment "The Gal Who Got Rattled")
(2004) Alfie
as Dr. Miranda Kulp
(2008) How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
as Bill Nathanson
(1995) The Low Life
as Hollywood Mogul
(2020) Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
as Narrator
(2005) The Fight
as ---
(1997) Hudson River Blues
as ---
(1998) Cousin Bette
as Stidmann
(2008) Fringe
as Nicholas Boone
(2022) Julia
as Albert Duhamel
(2001) Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Keifer Gates
(1990) Law & Order
as Mr. Olson
(2021) Hacks
as T.L. Gurley
(1997) Liberty!
as James Madison
(2002) Benjamin Franklin
as Elkanah Watson
(1999) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Carl Rudnick
(2019) I Am the Night
as George Hodel
(2013) The Blacklist
as Norman Devane
(2015) Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
as Daddy (voice)
(2015) Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
as Daddy
(2016) Westworld
as Liam Dempsey, Sr.
(2020) Perry Mason
as Virgil Sheets
(2013) The Americans
as Walter Taffet
(2005) The Closer
as Dr. Easton
(2009) The Good Wife
as Diplomat Van Buskirk