Jefferson Mays's Birth Card: The 9 of Diamonds

In the record

Lewis Jefferson Mays (born June 8, 1965) is an American actor. The birth-card coordinate for June 8 is the 9 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2004 Best Actor in a Play (I Am My Own Wife) win.

Tony Award record (leading acting)

• 2004 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play — I Am My Own Wife as Charlotte von Mahlsdorf

The 9 of Diamonds coordinate

Jefferson Mays's birthday maps to the 9 of Diamonds (The Universal Provider). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Tony Award and not a verdict on Jefferson Mays. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You give in a way you can sustain, and you let someone give back.

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Jefferson Mays in the public record

He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including a Tony Award, a Helen Hayes Award, a Lucille Lortel Award, two Drama Desk Awards, two Outer Critics Circle Awards and three Obie Awards. Mays was 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. Mays appeared on Broadway in I Am My Own Wife, a Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Doug Wright, from November 2003 (previews) to October 31, 2004. He had appeared in the play Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in May 2003, and at the La Jolla Playhouse in July 2001. Mays won the 2004 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play, the 2004 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show, an Obie Award, and a 2004 Theatre World Award for his solo performance. He also won the 2007 Helpmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Play for seasons of I Am My Own Wife in Australia in 2006.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Jefferson Mays (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 8 of Hearts

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Jefferson Mays, and not a forecast of a Tony.

Commanding emotional situations with strength and clarity

Mays was raised in Clinton, Connecticut, with his parents, a naval intelligence officer and a children's librarian, and his siblings.

Paired on relationship and feeling — the domain ♥ governs in this system. Markers in the record: children.

Also on the record

1. Mays starred in two Broadway revivals in 2007.
2. He appeared as Henry Higgins in Pygmalion, in which he won critical praise.
3. The TheaterMania reviewer called him "pitch-perfect", and the production an "excellent revival".
4. He appeared in a revival of Journey's End in February to June 2007, in which he starred as Private Mason.

Other leading Tony winners with this card

• Alexis Smith — 1972 Best Actress in a Musical (Follies)
• Brian Bedford — 1971 Best Actor in a Play (The School for Wives)
• Geoffrey Rush — 2009 Best Actor in a Play (Exit the King)
• Joaquina Kalukango — 2022 Best Actress in a Musical (Paradise Square)
• Joshua Henry — 2026 Best Actor in a Musical (Ragtime)
• Katharine Cornell — 1948 Best Actress in a Play (Antony and Cleopatra)
• Mark Rylance — 2008 Best Actor in a Play (Boeing-Boeing); 2011 Best Actor in a Play (Jerusalem)
• Robert Preston — 1958 Best Actor in a Musical (The Music Man); 1967 Best Actor in a Musical (I Do! I Do!)

FAQ

What is Jefferson Mays's birth card?

The 9 of Diamonds. June 8 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Tony Award?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.

Where do Jefferson Mays's dates come from?

Birth date 1965-06-08 is the day-precision date on Jefferson Mays's Wikipedia person page, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only Wikipedia dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Tony Award wins come from the Wikipedia leading-acting lists, which record the Tony Awards. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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