Jefferson Mays

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1965-06-08 (60 years old)

Place of Birth

Connecticut, USA

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, 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 Play...

Acting

1994

1999

The Big Brass Ring

as Garne Strickland

2015

I Am Michael

as Preacher Teacher

2023

Seneca

as Narrator (voice)

2014

2025

Rebuilding

as Mr. Cassidy

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

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

1995

The Low Life

as Hollywood Mogul

1998

Cousin Bette

as Stidmann

1993

Grey Knight

as Martin Bradley

Production

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