Actor
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, fro ...

Known For
Acting
2025 -- Rebuilding |
2023 -- Seneca | Narrator (voice)
2021 -- The Tragedy of Macbeth | Doctor
2020 -- Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol | Narrator
2018 -- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs | Gilbert Longabaugh (segment "The Gal Who Got Rattled")
2018 -- Curated | The Curator
2017 -- Rebel in the Rye | William Maxwell
2015 -- Ned Rifle | Dr. Ford
2015 -- I Am Michael | Preacher Teacher
2014 -- Inherent Vice | Dr. Threeply
2014 -- The Raven | Voice over (voice)
2014 -- The Cask of Amontillado | Fortunato
2014 -- The Giver | Community (voice)
2014 -- My America |
2008 -- How to Lose Friends & Alienate People | Bill Nathanson
2005 -- The Notorious Bettie Page | Little John
2005 -- The Fight |
2004 -- Alfie | Dr. Miranda Kulp
1999 -- The Big Brass Ring | Garne Strickland
1998 -- Cousin Bette | Stidmann
1997 -- Hudson River Blues |
1995 -- The Low Life | Hollywood Mogul
1994 -- Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade | Gerry Woolridge
1993 -- Grey Knight | Martin Bradley
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