Jefferson Mays Bio, Education, Professional Life
Jefferson Mays was born on 8 June 1965 in Clinton, Connecticut, and raised in Clinton, Connecticut, with his parents, a naval intelligence officer and a children's librarian, and his siblings.
Mays graduated from Yale College, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree, and the University of California, San Diego, where he earned a Master of Fine Arts from the graduate acting program. He appeared at La Jolla Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, the Williamstown Theatre Festival, and Playwrights Horizons.