Jefferson Mays

Personal Info

Birthday

June 8, 1965

(60 years old)

Place of Birth

Connecticut, USA

Also Known As

Lewis Jefferson Mays

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, 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.

Known For

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Law & Order

The Blacklist

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Fringe

The Good Wife

Westworld

The Closer

Filmography

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