Biography
Jefferson Mays
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…
Career works
43
Movies
25
Series
18
Career average
6.9/10
Birth date
06/08/1965
Place of birth
Connecticut, USA
Filmography highlights
Movies
Rebuilding
2025 · 6.5
Seneca
2023 · 5.0
The Tragedy of Macbeth
2021 · 6.9
Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
2020 · 10.0
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2018 · 7.1
Curated
2018 · 4.8
Rebel in the Rye
2017 · 6.6
Ned Rifle
2015 · 5.8
I Am Michael
2015 · 5.5
Inherent Vice
2014 · 6.5
The Cask of Amontillado
2014
The Giver
2014 · 6.6
My America
2014
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
2008 · 6.0
The Notorious Bettie Page
2006 · 6.3
Series
Julia
2022 · 7.3
Hacks
2021 · 7.5
Perry Mason
2020 · 7.2
I Am the Night
2019 · 6.5
Westworld
2016 · 8.0
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
2015 · 7.1
The Blacklist
2013 · 7.6
The Americans
2013 · 7.9
The Good Wife
2009 · 7.6
Nurse Jackie
2009 · 7.1
Lie to Me
2009 · 7.9
Fringe
2008 · 8.1
The Closer
2005 · 7.9
Benjamin Franklin
2002 · 6.7
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001 · 7.6