Actor

Jefferson Mays

June 8, 1965 · Connecticut, USA

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.

Notable work

8
Westworld (2016)
as Liam Dempsey, Sr.
6.6
The Giver (2014)
as Community (voice)
7.1
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
as Gilbert Longabaugh (segment "The Gal Who Got Rattled")
8
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)
as Carl Rudnick
7.6
The Blacklist (2013)
as Norman Devane
8.1
Fringe (2008)
as Nicholas Boone
6.5
Inherent Vice (2014)
as Dr. Threeply
7.9
Lie to Me (2009)
as Sidney Carlton
7.9
The Americans (2013)
as Walter Taffet
5.8
Alfie (2004)
as Dr. Miranda Kulp
6.9
The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)
as Doctor
6
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)
as Bill Nathanson

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