Jefferson Mays
Jefferson Mays was born in Connecticut, United States on June 8th, 1965 and is the Stage Actor. At the age of 58, Jefferson Mays biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Lewis Jefferson Mays (born June 8, 1965) is a Tony Award-winning American actor and audiobook narrator.
Personal life
Mays is married to Australian actress Susan Lyons.
Life and career
Mays was raised in Clinton, Connecticut, with his parents, a naval intelligence officer, and a children's librarian, as well as his siblings. Mays graduated from Yale College, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree, and the University of California, San Diego, where he obtained a Master of Fine Arts from the graduate acting program. He appeared at La Jolla Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, the Williamstown Theatre Festival, and Playwrights Horizons.
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 appeared in the play Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in May 2003 and in July 2001 at the La Jolla Playhouse. Mays received the 2004 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play, the 2004 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Exhibition, an Obie Award, and the 2004 Theatre World Award for his solo appearance. In a Play for Seasons of I Am My Own Wife in Australia in 2006, he also received the 2007 Helpmann Award for Best Male Actor.
In 2007, Mays appeared in two Broadway revivals. In Pygmalion, Henry Higgins was named Henry Higgins, in which he received acclaim for his work. "Pitch-perfect," the TheaterMania reviewer said, and the show is a "resurrection." He appeared in a revival of Journey's End in February to June 2007, in which he appeared as Private Mason. The film was "acutely staged and action," Ben Brantley of The New York Times called it. "Mays is a trustworthy, obliging Mason," a TheaterMania reviewer said.
Mays appeared in Quartermaine's Terms by Simon Grey in August 2009.
Mays appeared in A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, a Broadway production in which he appeared in nine parts. He appeared in the musical from October 2013 (previews) to its conclusion on January 17, 2016. He received the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical. He had been nominated for the Best Actor in a Musical and was tied for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical (with Neil Patrick Harris). Mays performed Terje Rd-Larsen in the Broadway play Oslo, for which he was given the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play nomination. Mays is expected to appear in the forthcoming revival of The Music Man, which will open on Broadway in 2022.
Mays also narrates audiobooks, including "The Expanse series and "The Invention of Sound" by Chuck Palahniuk.
Mays has appeared in numerous television shows as cross-dressing murderer Carl Rudnick and as Black Dahlia perpetrator George Hodel in Turner Network Television's I Am the Night; he appeared in many television shows as well; particularly as actor George Hodel in the Turner Network Television miniseries I Am the Night. Kimmy Schmidt, The Good Wife, Nurse Jackie, and The Americans are among his television credits.