Jefferson Mays

Jefferson Mays

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 Playhouse in July 2001. Mays won the 2004 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play, the 2004 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show, an Obie Award, and a 2004 Theatre World Award for his solo performance. He also won the 2007 Helpmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Play for seasons of I Am My Own Wife in Australia in 2006. In 2007, he appeared as Henry Higgins in a revival of Pygmalion and starred as Private Mason in a revival of Journey's End. In August 2009, Mays appeared at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Quartermaine's Terms by Simon Grey. Mays starred in the 2013 Broadway musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, in which he played eight roles. He won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical. He also was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical and tied for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical (with Neil Patrick Harris).

  • Title: Jefferson Mays
  • Popularity: 4.774
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1965-06-08
  • Place of Birth: Connecticut, USA
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  • Also Known As: Lewis Jefferson Mays
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Jefferson Mays Movies

  • 1994
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    Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade

    Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade

    6.7 1994 HD

    25 years after committing a double murder, Karl Childers is going to be released from an institution for the criminally insane. A local reporter...

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  • 2021
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    The Tragedy of Macbeth

    The Tragedy of Macbeth

    6.935 2021 HD

    Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and...

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  • 1999
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    The Big Brass Ring

    The Big Brass Ring

    4.4 1999 HD

    Blake Pellarin is on the campaign trail to become president of the United States. While making a stop in St. Louis, a chance encounter brings his...

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  • 2015
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    I Am Michael

    I Am Michael

    5.5 2015 HD

    The controversial true story of a gay activist who rejects his homosexuality and becomes a Christian pastor.

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  • 2023
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    Seneca: On the Creation of Earthquakes

    Seneca: On the Creation of Earthquakes

    5 2023 HD

    Rome in 65 AD, Emperor Nero's tyrannical regime has reached its zenith, Nero's self-indulgence and excessiveness brings up the opposition against...

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  • 2014
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    The Cask of Amontillado

    The Cask of Amontillado

    1 2014 HD

    Deep beneath the streets of Italy lie the catacombs of the Montresors, filled with barrels of wine and the bones of the dead. One evening, friends...

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  • 1970
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    Rebuilding

    Rebuilding

    1 1970 HD

    After losing the old family ranch to a wildfire, a cowboy, Dusty, winds up in a small FEMA camp in the vast American West. The last of a long line of...

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  • 2014
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    My America

    My America

    1 2014 HD

    21 monologues written by American playwrights form a sort of fractured portrait of the American collective psyche. Ranging from the sad to the...

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  • 2017
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    Rebel in the Rye

    Rebel in the Rye

    6.6 2017 HD

    The life of celebrated but reclusive author J.D. Salinger, who gained worldwide fame with the publication of his novel The Catcher in the Rye.

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  • 2014
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    The Raven

    The Raven

    1 2014 HD

    In this chilling and lyrical reinterpretation of Edgar Allan Poe's poem, a narrator mourning the loss of his love, Lenore, wavers on the brink of...

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  • 2015
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    Ned Rifle

    Ned Rifle

    5.84 2015 HD

    Henry’s and Fay's son Ned sets out to find and kill his father for destroying his mother's life. But his aims are frustrated by the troublesome...

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  • 2014
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    Inherent Vice

    Inherent Vice

    6.559 2014 HD

    In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend.

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  • 2014
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    The Giver

    The Giver

    6.553 2014 HD

    In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the...

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  • 2005
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    The Notorious Bettie Page

    The Notorious Bettie Page

    6.289 2005 HD

    Bettie Page grew up in a conservative religious family in Tennessee and became a photo model sensation in 1950s New York. Bettie's legendary pin-up...

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  • 2018
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    Curated

    Curated

    4.8 2018 HD

    During a reluctant trip to her late Grandmother's home in the middle of nowhere, Nancy learns that a person's sentiment and complexities aren't...

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  • 2018
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    The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

    The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

    7.135 2018 HD

    Vignettes weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the Civil War. Following the tales of a sharp-shooting...

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  • 2004
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    Alfie

    Alfie

    5.8 2004 HD

    A tale of a philosophical womanizer who is forced to question his seemingly carefree existence.

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  • 2008
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    How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

    How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

    6.007 2008 HD

    Sidney Young is a down-on-his-luck journalist. Thanks to a stint involving a pig and a glitzy awards ceremony, Sidney turns his fortunes around,...

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  • 1995
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    The Low Life

    The Low Life

    5.8 1995 HD

    Yale graduate John has come to Hollywood to catch his big break. It hasn't happened yet.

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  • 2020
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    Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol

    Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol

    10 2020 HD

    The timeless tale of Ebenezer Scrooge comes to thrilling new life as Tony winner Jefferson Mays plays over 50 roles in a virtuosic masterclass of a...

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  • 2005
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    The Fight

    The Fight

    7 2005 HD

    Explores the famous 1938 heavyweight bout between German Max Schmeling and American Joe Louis and finds two men who, in the shadow of war, became...

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  • 1997
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    Hudson River Blues

    Hudson River Blues

    1 1997 HD

    Hoping to help their marriage, a Manhattan lawyer (Rya Kihlstedt) brings her burned-out husband (Robert Stanton) to her mother's home upstate.

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  • 1998
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    Cousin Bette

    Cousin Bette

    5.7 1998 HD

    Cousin Bette is a poor and lonely seamstress, who, after the death of her prominent and wealthy sister, tries to ingratiate herself into lives of her...

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  • 2020
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    Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol

    Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol

    10 2020 HD

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  • 2008
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    Fringe

    Fringe

    8.129 2008 HD

    FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham, brilliant but formerly institutionalized scientist Walter Bishop and his scheming, reluctant son Peter uncover a...

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  • 2022
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    Julia

    Julia

    7.4 2022 HD

    Through Julia Child’s life and her singular joie de vivre, the series explores a pivotal time in American history – the emergence of...

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  • 2001
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    Law & Order: Criminal Intent

    Law & Order: Criminal Intent

    7.563 2001 HD

    The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense...

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  • 1990
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    Law & Order

    Law & Order

    7.4 1990 HD

    In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until...

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  • 2021
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    Hacks

    Hacks

    7.486 2021 HD

    Explore a dark mentorship that forms between Deborah Vance, a legendary Las Vegas comedian, and an entitled, outcast 25-year-old.

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  • 1997
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    Liberty!

    Liberty!

    7.8 1997 HD

    Dramatic documentary about the birth of the American Republic and the struggle of a loosely connected group of states to become a nation.

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  • 2002
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    Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin

    5.9 2002 HD

    An epic yarn spanning most of the 18th century, the series follows Franklin's career from humble beginnings in Boston to international superstardom:...

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  • 1999
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    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

    7.933 1999 HD

    In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate...

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  • 2019
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    I Am the Night

    I Am the Night

    6.527 2019 HD

    Fauna Hodel, who was given away by her teenage birth mother, begins to investigate the secrets to her past, following a sinister trail that swirls...

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  • 2013
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    The Blacklist

    The Blacklist

    7.6 2013 HD

    Raymond "Red" Reddington, one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, surrenders in person at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He claims that he and...

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  • 2015
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    Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

    Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

    7.156 2015 HD

    When a woman is rescued from a doomsday cult and lands in New York City, she must navigate a world she didn’t think even existed anymore.

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  • 2015
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    Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

    Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

    7.156 2015 HD

    When a woman is rescued from a doomsday cult and lands in New York City, she must navigate a world she didn’t think even existed anymore.

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  • 2016
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    Westworld

    Westworld

    8.044 2016 HD

    A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined...

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  • 2020
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    Perry Mason

    Perry Mason

    7.297 2020 HD

    Set in 1932 Los Angeles, the series focuses on the origin story of famed defense lawyer Perry Mason. Living check-to-check as a low-rent private...

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  • 2013
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    The Americans

    The Americans

    7.859 2013 HD

    Set during the Cold War period in the 1980s, The Americans is the story of Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, two Soviet KGB officers posing as an...

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  • 2005
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    The Closer

    The Closer

    7.864 2005 HD

    Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson transfers from Atlanta to LA to head up a special unit of the LAPD that handles sensitive, high-profile...

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  • 2009
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    The Good Wife

    The Good Wife

    7.581 2009 HD

    Alicia Florrick boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political...

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