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{{short description|American actress (born 1979)}}
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| birth_name = Jamia Suzette Mays
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| alma_mater = [[Radford University]]
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'''Jamia Suzette''' "'''Jayma'''" '''Mays'''<ref name=arts/> (born July 16, 1979) is an American actress. She is known for playing [[Emma Pillsbury]] in the [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] musical series ''[[Glee (TV series)|Glee]]'' (2009–2015) and for her starring roles in the films [[Red Eye (2005 American film)|''Red Eye'']] (2005), ''[[Paul Blart: Mall Cop]]'' (2009) and ''[[The Smurfs (film)|The Smurfs]]'' (2011). She is also known for portraying Debbie in the sitcom ''[[The Millers]]'' (2013–2014) and her recurring role as Charlie Andrews on the [[National Broadcasting Company|NBC]] sci-fi series ''[[Heroes (American TV series)|Heroes]]'' (2006–2010). Mays starred as prosecutor Carol Anne Keane in the NBC sitcom ''[[Trial & Error (TV series)|Trial & Error]]'' (2017–2018).
==Early life and education==
Mays was raised in [[Grundy, Virginia]], the daughter of Susan Paulette (née Norris) and James Edwin Mays, a high school teacher who also worked in the coal mining industry.<ref name=arts>{{Cite web|last=Tennis|first=Joe|title=Living A Hollywood Dream|publisher=Bristol Herald Courier, A! Magazine for the Arts|date=March 2, 2009|url=http://www.artsmagazine.info/articles.php?view=detail&id=2009030222161217123|access-date=October 27, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141204134221/http://www.artsmagazine.info/articles.php?view=detail&id=2009030222161217123|archive-date=December 4, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> At age 15, she was offered a job working on the local radio station reading the obituaries. After graduating from [[Grundy High School]], she earned an [[associate degree]] from [[Southwest Virginia Community College]]. Mays then attended [[Virginia Tech]] for a year before transferring to [[Radford University]].<ref name=arts/>
==Career==
[[File:Jayma Mays 2009.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Mays in 2009]]
In 2004, Mays made her first television appearance on ''[[Joey (TV series)|Joey]]''. The following year, she made her feature film debut with a supporting role in ''[[Red Eye (2005 American film)|Red Eye]]''. Mays' other credits include ''[[Six Feet Under (TV series)|Six Feet Under]]'', ''[[Stacked]]'', ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'', ''[[Heroes (American TV series)|Heroes]]'', ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'', ''[[The Comeback (TV series)|The Comeback]]'', ''[[Entourage (American TV series)|Entourage]]'', ''[[Ghost Whisperer]]'', and ''[[Ugly Betty]]''.
Mays appeared in other movies, such as ''Bar Starz'', ''[[Flags of Our Fathers (film)|Flags of Our Fathers]]'' and ''[[Blind Guy Driving]]''. She starred in the spoof film ''[[Epic Movie]]'' and as Amy in ''[[Paul Blart: Mall Cop]]''. She was a patient on ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' in the episode "Sleeping Dogs Lie" in 2006.
Mays has played the love interest of a character played by [[Masi Oka]] in two different roles: [[Charlie Andrews (Heroes)|Charlie Andrews]] on ''Heroes'' and Nina in the direct-to-DVD film ''[[Get Smart's Bruce and Lloyd: Out of Control]]''. She has also been cast as a love interest twice for ''Glee'' co-star [[Matthew Morrison]]; in an unaired TV show called ''Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office'', and as [[Mysophobia|mysophobic]] guidance counsellor [[Emma Pillsbury]] on the [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] show ''[[Glee (TV series)|Glee]]'', which premiered on May 19, 2009. She was part of the main cast of ''Glee'' for the first three seasons, then was made a guest star in seasons four, five, and six. She has also performed musical numbers on ''Glee'' including her solo performance of "Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch-a Touch Me" from ''[[The Rocky Horror Show]]'' during the themed episode "The Rocky Horror Glee Show"; which was also the song she had sung for her audition for the role. In March 2010, Mays played Grace Winslow, the female lead in the live-action/animated film adaptation of ''[[The Smurfs (film)|The Smurfs]]''. She also played the role of Charlotte, [[Henry Grubstick|Henry Grubstick's]] ex-girlfriend on ''Ugly Betty''. In August 2014, Mays helped to raise awareness of the disease [[Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis|ALS]] by participating in the [[Ice Bucket Challenge]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_91TY14jBs|title=Jayma Mays Ice Bucket|last=Benign Ginger|date=August 20, 2014|access-date=October 6, 2018|via=YouTube|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190117032512/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_91TY14jBs|archive-date=January 17, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> She also appeared in the music video for [[Switchfoot]]'s single "[[Awakening (song)|Awakening]]".
From 2017 to 2018, Mays starred in the NBC crime anthology comedy ''[[Trial & Error (TV series)|Trial & Error]]'' as prosecutor Carol Anne Keane. She also appeared in a 2018 episode of ''[[Great News]]'' as Cat, the girlfriend of Greg, played by Mays's husband [[Adam Campbell (actor)|Adam Campbell]].
In April 2021, it was announced that Mays was cast in ''[[Disenchanted (film)|Disenchanted]]'', the long-awaited sequel to the 2007 film ''[[Enchanted (film)|Enchanted]]'', along with [[Maya Rudolph]] and [[Yvette Nicole Brown]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=D'Alessandro |first1=Anthony |title=Maya Rudolph, Yvette Nicole Brown & Jayma Mays Joining Disney+'s 'Enchanted' Sequel 'Disenchanted' |date=April 26, 2021 |url=https://deadline.com/2021/04/disney-enchanted-sequel-disenchanted-maya-rudolph-yvette-nicole-brown-jayma-mays-1234744446/ |publisher=[[Deadline Hollywood]] |access-date=26 April 2021}}</ref>
==Personal life==
Mays met her husband [[Adam Campbell (actor)|Adam Campbell]] on the set of ''[[Epic Movie]]'' in 2006. She gave birth to their son on August 21, 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eonline.com/news/807454/jayma-mays-is-a-mom-glee-star-welcomes-a-son-with-husband-adam-campbell|title=Glee's Jayma Mays Welcomes a Son With Husband Adam Campbell|date=November 6, 2016|access-date=October 6, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181006195402/https://www.eonline.com/news/807454/jayma-mays-is-a-mom-glee-star-welcomes-a-son-with-husband-adam-campbell|archive-date=October 6, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>
==Filmography==
===Film===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
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! Year
! Title
! Role
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| 2005
| ''[[Red Eye (2005 American film)|Red Eye]]''
| Cynthia
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| rowspan=2|2006
| ''[[Blind Dating]]''
| Mandy
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| ''[[Flags of Our Fathers (film)|Flags of Our Fathers]]''
| Nurse in Hawaii
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| rowspan=3|2007
| ''[[Smiley Face (film)|Smiley Face]]''
| Actress in Waiting Room
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| ''[[Epic Movie]]''
| Lucy Pervertski
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| ''Bar Starz''
| Tiffany
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| rowspan=2|2008
| ''[[Get Smart's Bruce and Lloyd: Out of Control]]''
| Nina
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| ''Night Hikers''
| Skellen
| Short film
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| 2009
| ''[[Paul Blart: Mall Cop]]''
| Amy Anderson
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| 2011
| ''[[The Smurfs (film)|The Smurfs]]''
| Grace Winslow
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| rowspan=2|2013
| ''Bananas''
| Narrator
| Short film
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| ''[[The Smurfs 2]]''
| Grace Winslow
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| rowspan=2|2014
| ''Awkward Expressions of Love''
| Liz
| Short film
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| ''[[Last Weekend (2014 film)|Last Weekend]]''
| Blake Curtis
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| rowspan=2|2015
| ''[[Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant]]''
| April Farnekowski
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| ''[[Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2]]''
| Amy Blart-Anderson
| Cameo
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| 2017
| ''[[American Made (film)|American Made]]''
| Dana Sibota
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| rowspan=2|2020
| ''Little Willy''
| Mrs. Caruthers
| Short film
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| ''[[Bill & Ted Face the Music]]''
| Princess Joanna
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| 2022
| ''[[Disenchanted (film)|Disenchanted]]''
| Ruby
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===Television===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
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! Year
! Title
! scope="col" width="200px"| Role
! class="unsortable"| Notes
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| 2004
| ''[[Joey (TV series)|Joey]]''
| Molly
| Episode: "Joey and the Party"
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| rowspan=3|2005
| ''[[The Comeback (TV series)|The Comeback]]''
| Sales Girl
| Episode: "Valerie Demands Dignity"
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| ''[[Six Feet Under (TV series)|Six Feet Under]]''
| Donna
| Episode: "The Rainbow of Her Reasons"
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| ''[[Stacked]]''
| Brenda
| Episode: "Nobody Says I Love You"
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| 2005, 2013
| ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]''
| Coat Check Girl
| 2 episodes
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| rowspan=5|2006
| ''If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home Now''
| Sandra
| Pilot (unaired)
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| ''[[30 Even Scarier Movie Moments]]''
| Herself
| Miniseries
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| ''[[House (TV series)|House]]''
| Hannah
| Episode: "[[Sleeping Dogs Lie (House)|Sleeping Dogs Lie]]"
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| ''[[Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip]]''
| Daphne
| Episode: "Pilot"
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| ''[[Entourage (American TV series)|Entourage]]''
| Jen
| Episode: "Sorry, Ari"
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| 2006–2010
| ''[[Heroes (American TV series)|Heroes]]''
| [[List of characters in Heroes#Charlie Andrews|Charlie Andrews]]
| Recurring role; 5 episodes
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| 2007
| ''Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office''
| Angela
| Pilot (unaired)
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| 2007–2008
| ''[[Ugly Betty]]''
| Charlie
| Recurring role; 8 episodes
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| rowspan="2" |2007
| ''[[Ghost Whisperer]]''
| Jennifer Billings
| Episode: "The Underneath"
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| ''[[Pushing Daisies]]''
| Elsita / Elsa
| Episode: "Pigeon"
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| 2008–2019
| ''[[Drunk History]]''
| Annabelle / [[Abigail Adams]] / [[Marjory Stoneman Douglas]] / Florence Schaffner
| Recurring role; 4 episodes
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| 2008
| ''[[Back to You (TV series)|Back to You]]''
| Shelley Ken
| Episode: "Date Night"
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| 2009–2015
| ''[[Glee (TV series)|Glee]]''
| [[Emma Pillsbury]]
| Main role (seasons 1–3); recurring (season 4–6)
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| 2012–2014
| ''[[The League]]''
| Trixie Von Stein
| Recurring role; 6 episodes
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| 2013
| ''[[NTSF:SD:SUV::]]''
| Clock
| Episode: "The Great Train Stoppery"
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| 2013–2015
| ''[[The Millers]]''
| Debbie
| Main role; 34 episodes
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| 2014–2015
| ''[[Getting On (American TV series)|Getting On]]''
| Suzi Sasso
| 5 episodes
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| 2015–2018
| ''[[The Adventures of Puss in Boots]]''
| Dulcinea
| Voice; Main role
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| 2015
| ''[[Resident Advisors (TV series)|Resident Advisors]]''
|Michaela Roberts
|Episode: "Motivational Speaker"
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| 2015
| ''[[Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp]]''
| Jessica
| 2 episodes
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| 2015
| ''[[Gigi Does It]]''
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|Episode: "Love Thyself"
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| 2017–2018
| ''[[Trial & Error (TV series)|Trial & Error]]''
| Carol Anne Keane
| Main role
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| 2018
| ''[[Great News]]''
| Cat
| Episode: "Catfight"
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| 2022
| ''[[United States of Al]]''
| Cindy
| 6 episodes
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| 2025
| ''[[Leanne (TV series)|Leanne]]''
| Mary
| 10 episodes
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===Music videos===
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! Year
! Title
! Artist
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| 2007
| "[[Awakening (song)|Awakening]]"
| [[Switchfoot]]
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==References==
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