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,...
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Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade
As Gerry Woolridge
The Tragedy of Macbeth
As Doctor
The Big Brass Ring
As Garne Strickland
I Am Michael
As Preacher Teacher
Seneca: On the Creation of Earthquakes
As Narrator (voice)
The Cask of Amontillado
As Fortunato
Rebuilding
The Raven
As Voice over (voice)
Ned Rifle
As Dr. Ford
Rebel in the Rye
As William Maxwell
Inherent Vice
As Dr. Threeply
The Giver
As Community (voice)
My America
The Notorious Bettie Page
As Little John
Curated
As The Curator
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
As Gilbert Longabaugh (segment "The Gal Who Got Rattled")
Alfie
As Dr. Miranda Kulp
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
As Bill Nathanson
The Low Life
As Hollywood Mogul
Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
As Narrator
The Fight
Hudson River Blues
Cousin Bette
As Stidmann
Fringe
As Nicholas Boone
Julia
As Albert Duhamel
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
As Keifer Gates
Law & Order
As Mr. Olson
Hacks
As T.L. Gurley
Liberty!
As James Madison
Benjamin Franklin
As Elkanah Watson
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
As Carl Rudnick
I Am the Night
As George Hodel
The Blacklist
As Norman Devane
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
As Daddy (voice)
Westworld
As Liam Dempsey, Sr.
Perry Mason
As Virgil Sheets
The Americans
As Walter Taffet
The Closer
As Dr. Easton
The Good Wife
As Diplomat Van Buskirk