Awards & Winners

Jefferson Mays

Date of Birth 08-June-1965
Place of Birth Connecticut
(New England, United States of America, Contiguous United States)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Lewis Jefferson Mays, Jeff Mays, L. Jefferson Mays
Profession Actor
Jefferson Mays is an American theatre and film actor. A Connecticut native, Mays trained at Yale College, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree, 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, the Williamstown Theatre Festival, and Playwrights Horizons. In 2004, Mays won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show, an Obie Award, and a Theatre World Award for his solo Broadway performance in I Am My Own Wife, a Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Doug Wright. In 2007, Mays starred in two highly acclaimed Broadway revivals: Pygmalion, in which he won critical praise as Henry Higgins, and a well received revival of Journey's End in which he starred as Private Mason. Mays is currently starring in the 2013 Broadway musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, in which he plays eight roles. He has won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical.

Awards by Jefferson Mays

Check all the awards nominated and won by Jefferson Mays.

2014


Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical
Honored for : A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical
Honored for : A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder

Nominations 2014 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder
Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder

2012


Nominations 2012 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play Blood and Gifts
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play Blood and Gifts

2006


Helen Hayes Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production
Honored for : I Am My Own Wife
(for the production at the National Theatre)

Nominations 2006 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Helen Hayes Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production I Am My Own Wife
for the production at the National Theatre

2004


Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play
Honored for : I Am My Own Wife
Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Solo Performance
Honored for : I Am My Own Wife
Obie Award for Performance
Honored for : I Am My Own Wife
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance
Honored for : I Am My Own Wife
(Outstanding Solo Performance)

Nominations 2004 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play I Am My Own Wife
Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Solo Performance I Am My Own Wife
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance I Am My Own Wife
Outstanding Solo Performance

1994


Obie Award for Performance
Honored for : Orestes