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| Born | Lewis Jefferson Mays (1965-06-08) June 8, 1965 (age 59) Connecticut, United States |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1988–present |
Jefferson Mays (born Lewis Jefferson Mays; June 8, 1965) is an American theatre and film actor.
A Connecticut native, Mays trained at Yale College, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree, and the University of California, San Diego, where he earned an Master of Fine Arts. He has appeared at La Jolla Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, the Williamstown Theatre Festival, and Playwrights Horizons.
In 2004, Mays won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show, an Obie Award, and a Theatre World Award for his solo Broadway performance in I Am My Own Wife, a Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Doug Wright.
Mays is married to Australian actress Susan Lyons.
Credits
- Film
- Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade (1994)
- The Low Life (1995)
- Cousin Bette (1998)
- The Big Brass Ring (1999)
- Kinsey (2004)
- Alfie (2004)
- The Notorious Bettie Page (2005)
- Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (2005)
- Stage
- Pygmalion (2007)
- Journey's End (2007)
- I Am My Own Wife (2003)
- Hamlet (1995)
External links
- Jefferson Mays at IMDb
- Jefferson Mays at the Internet Broadway Database
- Jefferson Mays biography at "I Am My Own Wife"
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