Personal Info
Lewis Jefferson Mays
Jefferson Mays
Acting
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 Playwrig…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Rebuilding
as Mr. Cassidy
Weathermaker
as Dad
Seneca
as Narrator (voice)
The Tragedy of Macbeth
as Doctor
Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
as Narrator
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
as Gilbert Longabaugh (segment "The Gal Who Got Rattled")
Curated
as The Curator
Rebel in the Rye
as William Maxwell
I Am Michael
as Preacher Teacher
Ned Rifle
as Dr. Ford
TV Shows
Julia
as Albert Duhamel · 8 ep.
Hacks
as T.L. Gurley · 2 ep.
Perry Mason
as Virgil Sheets · 5 ep.
I Am the Night
as George Hodel · 6 ep.
Westworld
as Liam Dempsey, Sr. · 1 ep.
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
as Daddy · 1 ep.
The Blacklist
as Norman Devane · 1 ep.
The Americans
as Walter Taffet · 4 ep.
The Good Wife
as Diplomat Van Buskirk · 1 ep.
Lie to Me
as Sidney Carlton · 1 ep.