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).
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
as Gilbert Longabaugh (segment "The Gal Who Got Rattled")Vignettes weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the...
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Inherent Vice
as Dr. ThreeplyIn Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello...
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The Tragedy of Macbeth
as DoctorMacbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will...
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The Giver
as Community (voice)In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young...
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Alfie
as Dr. Miranda KulpA tale of a philosophical womanizer who is forced to question his seemingly carefree existence.
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Sidney Young is a down-on-his-luck journalist. Thanks to a stint involving a pig and a glitzy...
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Rebel in the Rye
as William MaxwellThe life of celebrated but reclusive author J.D. Salinger, who gained worldwide fame with the...
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The Notorious Bettie Page
as Little JohnBettie Page grew up in a conservative religious family in Tennessee and became a photo model...
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I Am Michael
as Preacher TeacherThe controversial true story of a gay activist who rejects his homosexuality and becomes a...
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Ned Rifle
as Dr. FordHenry’s and Fay's son Ned sets out to find and kill his father for destroying his mother's life....
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Seneca: On the Creation of Earthquakes
as Narrator (voice)Rome in 65 AD, Emperor Nero's tyrannical regime has reached its zenith, Nero's self-indulgence...
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Cousin Bette
as StidmannCousin Bette is a poor and lonely seamstress, who, after the death of her prominent and wealthy...
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The Big Brass Ring
as Garne StricklandBlake Pellarin is on the campaign trail to become president of the United States. While making a...
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Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
as NarratorThe timeless tale of Ebenezer Scrooge comes to thrilling new life as Tony winner Jefferson Mays...
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Hudson River Blues
as uncreditedHoping to help their marriage, a Manhattan lawyer (Rya Kihlstedt) brings her burned-out husband...
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Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade
as Gerry Woolridge25 years after committing a double murder, Karl Childers is going to be released from an...
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Curated
as The CuratorDuring a reluctant trip to her late Grandmother's home in the middle of nowhere, Nancy learns...
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My America
as uncredited21 monologues written by American playwrights form a sort of fractured portrait of the American...
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The Low Life
as Hollywood MogulYale graduate John has come to Hollywood to catch his big break. It hasn't happened yet.
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The Cask of Amontillado
as FortunatoDeep beneath the streets of Italy lie the catacombs of the Montresors, filled with barrels of...
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The Fight
as uncreditedExplores the famous 1938 heavyweight bout between German Max Schmeling and American Joe Louis...
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Carl RudnickIn the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In...
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The Blacklist
as Norman DevaneRaymond "Red" Reddington, one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, surrenders in person at FBI...
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Law & Order
as Mr. OlsonIn cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing...
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Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Keifer GatesThe third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its...
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The Closer
as Dr. EastonDeputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson transfers from Atlanta to LA to head up a special unit...
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Fringe
as Nicholas BooneFBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham, brilliant but formerly institutionalized scientist Walter...
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Westworld
as Liam Dempsey, Sr.A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the...
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The Good Wife
as Diplomat Van BuskirkAlicia Florrick boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce...
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The Americans
as Walter TaffetSet during the Cold War period in the 1980s, The Americans is the story of Elizabeth and Philip...
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Hacks
as T.L. GurleyExplore a dark mentorship that forms between Deborah Vance, a legendary Las Vegas comedian, and...
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Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
as Daddy (voice)When a woman is rescued from a doomsday cult and lands in New York City, she must navigate a...
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Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
as DaddyWhen a woman is rescued from a doomsday cult and lands in New York City, she must navigate a...
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Perry Mason
as Virgil SheetsSet in 1932 Los Angeles, the series focuses on the origin story of famed defense lawyer Perry...
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I Am the Night
as George HodelFauna Hodel, who was given away by her teenage birth mother, begins to investigate the secrets...
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Julia
as Albert DuhamelThrough Julia Child’s life and her singular joie de vivre, the series explores a pivotal time in...
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Liberty!
as James MadisonDramatic documentary about the birth of the American Republic and the struggle of a loosely...
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