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Jefferson Mays is a American film and stage actor.

A Connecticut native, Mays trained at Yale College, where he received a B.A., and the University of California, San Diego where he earned an M.F.A.. He has appeared at La Jolla Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and Playwrights Horizons.

In 2004, Mays won a Tony Award for Best Leading Actor, an Obie Award, a Drama Desk Award, and a Theatre World Award, all for his solo Broadway peformance, I Am My Own Wife, a Pulitzer Prize winning play by Doug Wright.

Selected films

• 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)

External links

• Jefferson Mays biography at "I Am My Own Wife"

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