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Jefferson Mays
Born	Lewis Jefferson Mays

Jefferson Mays (born 8 June 1965) is an American award-winning theatre and film 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 Master of Fine Arts. 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 performance in I Am My Own Wife, a Pulitzer Prize winning play by Doug Wright.

He is married to Australian actress Susan Lyons.

Work

Film

Stage

Pygmalion (2007)
Journey's End (2007)
I Am My Own Wife (2003)
Hamlet (1995)

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Jefferson Mays biography at "I Am My Own Wife"

v t e Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Play
1947–1975	José Ferrer / Fredric March (1947) Henry Fonda / Paul Kelly / Basil Rathbone (1948) Rex Harrison (1949) Sidney Blackmer (1950) Claude Rains (1951) José Ferrer (1952) Tom Ewell (1953) David Wayne (1954) Alfred Lunt (1955) Paul Muni (1956) Fredric March (1957) Ralph Bellamy (1958) Jason Robards Jr. (1959) Melvyn Douglas (1960) Zero Mostel (1961) Paul Scofield (1962) Arthur Hill (1963) Alec Guinness (1964) Walter Matthau (1965) Hal Holbrook (1966) Paul Rogers (1967) Martin Balsam (1968) James Earl Jones (1969) Fritz Weaver (1970) Brian Bedford (1971) Cliff Gorman (1972) Alan Bates (1973) Michael Moriarty (1974) John Kani and Winston Ntshona (1975)
1976–2000	John Wood (1976) Al Pacino (1977) Barnard Hughes (1978) Tom Conti (1979) John Rubinstein (1980) Ian McKellen (1981) Roger Rees (1982) Harvey Fierstein (1983) Jeremy Irons (1984) Derek Jacobi (1985) Judd Hirsch (1986) James Earl Jones (1987) Ron Silver (1988) Philip Bosco (1989) Robert Morse (1990) Nigel Hawthorne (1991) Judd Hirsch (1992) Ron Leibman (1993) Stephen Spinella (1994) Ralph Fiennes (1995) George Grizzard (1996) Christopher Plummer (1997) Anthony LaPaglia (1998) Brian Dennehy (1999) Stephen Dillane (2000)
2001–present	Richard Easton (2001) Alan Bates (2002) Brian Dennehy (2003) Jefferson Mays (2004) Bill Irwin (2005) Richard Griffiths (2006) Frank Langella (2007) Mark Rylance (2008) Geoffrey Rush (2009) Denzel Washington (2010) Mark Rylance (2011) James Corden (2012) Tracy Letts (2013) Bryan Cranston (2014) Alex Sharp (2015) Frank Langella (2016) Kevin Kline (2017) Andrew Garfield (2018) Bryan Cranston (2019) Andrew Burnap (2020/21) Simon Russell Beale (2022) Sean Hayes (2023) Jeremy Strong (2024)

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