Jefferson Mays
Known for: Acting
Born: June 8, 1965
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…
Known for
The Raven
2014
Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
2020
Weathermaker
2025
The Cask of Amontillado
2014
Curated
2018
The Fight
2005
Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade
1994
Rebuilding
2025
Los Vampires
The Big Brass Ring
1999
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
2008
Ned Rifle
2015
Rebel in the Rye
2017
The Low Life
1995
I Am Michael
2015
Grey Knight
1993
Seneca
2023
Cousin Bette
1998
The Notorious Bettie Page
2006
Alfie
2004
Hudson River Blues
1997
The Tragedy of Macbeth
2021
My America
2014
The Giver
2014
Fringe
2008
Julia
2022
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
Law & Order
1990
Hacks
2021
Liberty!
1997
Benjamin Franklin
2002
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2018
I Am the Night
2019
The Blacklist
2013
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
2015
Westworld
2016
Perry Mason
2020
The Americans
2013
The Closer
2005
The Good Wife
2009
Nurse Jackie
2009
Lie to Me
2009
Inherent Vice
2014