Jefferson Mays
Born in Connecticut, USA — Jun 08 1965
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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 appea…
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Carl Rudnick
Law & Order
Mr. Olson
The Blacklist
Norman Devane
The Closer
Dr. Easton
Fringe
Nicholas Boone
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Keifer Gates
The Good Wife
Diplomat Van Buskirk
Westworld
Liam Dempsey, Sr.
Hacks
T.L. Gurley
The Americans
Walter Taffet
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Daddy (voice)
Perry Mason
Virgil Sheets
Inherent Vice
Dr. Threeply
Julia
Albert Duhamel
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Gilbert Longabaugh (segment "The Gal Who Got Rattled")
Liberty!
James Madison
The Giver
Community (voice)
I Am the Night
George Hodel
The Tragedy of Macbeth
Doctor
Alfie
Dr. Miranda Kulp
Benjamin Franklin
Elkanah Watson
Rebuilding
Mr. Cassidy
I Am Michael
Preacher Teacher
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
Bill Nathanson
Grey Knight
Martin Bradley
The Notorious Bettie Page
Little John
Cousin Bette
Stidmann
Seneca
Narrator (voice)
My America
Rebel in the Rye
William Maxwell
The Low Life
Hollywood Mogul
Curated
The Curator
Ned Rifle
Dr. Ford
The Big Brass Ring
Garne Strickland
Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade
Gerry Woolridge
Hudson River Blues
Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
Narrator
The Cask of Amontillado
Fortunato
The Fight
Weathermaker
Dad
The Raven
Voice over (voice)