Jefferson Mays
Acting
Born: 1965-06-08 · Connecticut, USA
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
🎬 Movies (25)
Rebuilding
2025
Mr. Cassidy
Weathermaker
2025
Dad
Seneca
2023
Narrator (voice)
The Tragedy of Macbeth
2021
Doctor
Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
2020
Narrator
Curated
2018
The Curator
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2018
Gilbert Longabaugh (segment "The Gal Who Got Rattled")
Rebel in the Rye
2017
William Maxwell
I Am Michael
2015
Preacher Teacher
Ned Rifle
2015
Dr. Ford
The Cask of Amontillado
2014
Fortunato
The Giver
2014
Community (voice)
My America
2014
The Raven
2014
Voice over (voice)
Inherent Vice
2014
Dr. Threeply
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
2008
Bill Nathanson
The Notorious Bettie Page
2006
Little John
The Fight
2005
Alfie
2004
Dr. Miranda Kulp
The Big Brass Ring
1999
Garne Strickland
Cousin Bette
1998
Stidmann
Hudson River Blues
1997
The Low Life
1995
Hollywood Mogul
Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade
1994
Gerry Woolridge
Grey Knight
1993
Martin Bradley
📺 TV Shows (18)
Julia
2022
Albert Duhamel
Hacks
2021
T.L. Gurley
Perry Mason
2020
Virgil Sheets
I Am the Night
2019
George Hodel
Westworld
2016
Liam Dempsey, Sr.
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
2015
Daddy
The Blacklist
2013
Norman Devane
The Americans
2013
Walter Taffet
The Good Wife
2009
Diplomat Van Buskirk
Nurse Jackie
2009
Tim
Lie to Me
2009
Sidney Carlton
Fringe
2008
Nicholas Boone
The Closer
2005
Dr. Easton
Benjamin Franklin
2002
Elkanah Watson
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
Keifer Gates
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Carl Rudnick
Liberty!
1997
James Madison
Law & Order
1990
Mr. Olson