Acting • AGE 61
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 ...


Rebuilding
Mr. Cassidy
2025

Seneca
Narrator (voice)
2023

Julia
Albert Duhamel
2022

The Tragedy of Macbeth
Doctor
2021

Hacks
T.L. Gurley
2021

Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
Narrator
2020

Perry Mason
Virgil Sheets
2020

I Am the Night
George Hodel
2019

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Gilbert Longabaugh (segment "The Gal Who Got Rattled")
2018

Curated
The Curator
2018

Rebel in the Rye
William Maxwell
2017

Westworld
Liam Dempsey, Sr.
2016

Ned Rifle
Dr. Ford
2015

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Daddy (voice)
2015

I Am Michael
Preacher Teacher
2015

Inherent Vice
Dr. Threeply
2014

The Cask of Amontillado
Fortunato
2014

The Giver
Community (voice)
2014

My America
2014

The Blacklist
Norman Devane
2013

The Americans
Walter Taffet
2013

The Good Wife
Diplomat Van Buskirk
2009

Nurse Jackie
Tim
2009

Lie to Me
Sidney Carlton
2009

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
Bill Nathanson
2008

Fringe
Nicholas Boone
2008

The Notorious Bettie Page
Little John
2006

The Closer
Dr. Easton
2005

The Fight
2005

Alfie
Dr. Miranda Kulp
2004

Benjamin Franklin
Elkanah Watson
2002

Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Keifer Gates
2001

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Carl Rudnick
1999

The Big Brass Ring
Garne Strickland
1999

Cousin Bette
Stidmann
1998

Hudson River Blues
1997

Liberty!
James Madison
1997

The Low Life
Hollywood Mogul
1995

Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade
Gerry Woolridge
1994

Grey Knight
Martin Bradley
1993

Law & Order
Mr. Olson
1990

Los Vampires
George Wilmore