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Revision as of 22:30, 24 March 2007 by Welsh (talk | contribs) (clean up, Replaced: peform → perform (2) using AWB)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Jefferson Mays is an 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 performance in 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)
Broadway performances
- I Am My Own Wife (2003)
- Journey's End (2007)
External links
- Jefferson Mays at IMDb
- Jefferson Mays at the Internet Broadway Database
- Jefferson Mays biography at "I Am My Own Wife"
- Performance Working in the Theatre seminar video at American Theatre Wing.org, April 2004
- Jefferson Mays Downstage Center XM radio interview, 2004
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