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 Birth Date: July 16, 1979
Birth Place: Grundy, Virginia, USA
Jayma was born Jamia Suzette Mays. She was raised in Grundy, Virginia, with her older brother and sister. Her father was a high school teacher at Grundy Senior High School for 7 years, before spending 25 years working in the coal-mining industry. He is now retired and lives with Jayma's mother in Bristol.
At school, Jayma enjoyed Math and singing. She graduated from high school in 1997. She then went on to get an Associate degree from Southwest Virginia Community College. She then did a year at Virginia Tech, transferring to Radford University. After earning her degree in Theatre in 2000, she moved to California.
She started out with an internship with actor Timothy Busfield, of the television series "thirtysomething" (1987). In 2004, she had her screen television debut on "Joey" (2004). Her first feature film came, a year later, in Red Eye (2005). Her breakthrough role came when she won the role of "Emma Pillsbury" on the hit show, "Glee" (2009).
Jayma Mays makes her feature film debut in “Red Eye.” Later this year, she co-stars in the independent romantic comedy “Blind Guy,” for director James Keach.
On television, Mays was most recently seen on the new Lisa Kudrow series “The Comeback” and in a guest role on “Six Feet Under,” both on HBO. In addition, she has a recurring role on the hit HBO series “Entourage,” and has guest starred on the NBC sitcom “Joey.”
Born and raised in Virginia, Mays majored in Performing Arts at Radford University, where she had roles in a number of plays. She spent one summer in Sacramento as an apprentice at Timothy Busfield's B Street Theatre. Following graduation, Mays moved to Los Angeles to pursue her acting career. She has appeared on the Los Angeles stage in several plays, including a production of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” in which she played the lead role of Janet.
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