Jayma Mays

Jayma Mays
Mays at the premiere party for Glee, May 11, 2009
Born	Jayma Suzette Mays
Occupation(s)	Actress, singer
Years active	2004–present
Spouse(s)	Adam Campbell (m. 2007-present)

Jayma Suzette Mays (born July 16, 1979) is an American television and film actress, and singer. She is perhaps best known for playing mysophobic guidance counselor Emma Pillsbury on the American television series Glee and for her recurring roles on Ugly Betty as Charlie and on Heroes as Charlie Andrews.

Life and career

Mays was born in Grundy, Virginia, the daughter of Paulette (née Norris) and James Mays, a high school teacher who also worked in the coal mining industry. She was raised in Grundy, Virginia. After graduating from Grundy High School, she attended Southwest Virginia Community College, then transferred to Virginia Tech before finally ending up at Radford University where she graduated with a degree in Performing Arts.

In 2004, she made her first television appearance on Joey. The following year, she made her feature film debut with a supporting role in Red Eye. Mays' other credits include Six Feet Under, The Comeback, Entourage, Stacked, How I Met Your Mother, Heroes, Pushing Daisies, Ghost Whisperer and Ugly Betty. Jayma was in other movies, such as Bar Starz, Flags of Our Fathers and Blind Guy Driving. She also starred in the spoof film Epic Movie where she met her husband Adam Campbell. She also was a patient on 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 on Heroes, and Nina in the direct-to-DVD film Get Smart's Bruce and Lloyd: Out of Control. She also played Elsita, who lives and works in a windmill as well as her mother Elsa in episode four of Pushing Daisies. Mays costarred in vol.2.5 of Derek Water's online series Drunk History as Benjamin Franklin's love interest. She also starred as Amy in Paul Blart: Mall Cop.

Mays currently stars as Emma Pillsbury on the Fox show Glee, which premiered on May 19, 2009. In March 2010, Mays was cast as the female lead in a live action/animation hybrid film version of The Smurfs.

Filmography

Film appearances
Year	Title	Role	Notes
2005	Red Eye	Cynthia
2006	Blind Dating	Mandy
	Flags of Our Fathers	Nurse in Hawaii
2007	Smiley Face	Actress in Waiting Room
	Epic Movie	Lucy
	Bar Starz	Tiffany
2008	Get Smart's Bruce and Lloyd: Out of Control	Nina
2009	Paul Blart: Mall Cop	Amy
2011	The Smurfs	Grace Winslow	Post-Production

Television appearances
Year	Title	Role	Notes
2004	Joey	Molly	Episode: "Joey and the Party"
2005	The Comeback	Sales Girl	Episode: "Valerie Demands Dignity"
	Six Feet Under	Donna	Episode: "The Rainbow of Her Reasons"
	How I Met Your Mother	Coat Check Girl	Episode: "Okay Awesome"
	Stacked	Brenda	Episode: "Nobody Says I Love You"
2005	Entourage	Jennifer	Episodes: "Sorry, Ari"
2006	If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home Now	Sandra	TV pilot
	30 Even Scarier Movie Moments	Herself	TV miniseries
	House	Hannah	Episode: "Sleeping Dogs Lie"
	Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip	Daphne	Episode: "Pilot"
	Entourage	Jennifer	Episode: "Sorry, Ari"
	Heroes	Charlie Andrews	Episodes: "Seven Minutes to Midnight", "Homecoming", "Six Months Ago"
2007	Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office	Angela	TV pilot
	Ugly Betty	Charlie	6 episodes
	Ghost Whisperer	Jennifer Billings	Episode: "The Underneath"
	Pushing Daisies	Elsita	Episode: "Pigeon"
	Drunk History	Annabelle	Episode: "Drunk History Vol. 2.5: Featuring Jack Black"
2008	Ugly Betty	Charlie	Episodes: "Twenty-four Candles", "Betty's Baby Bump"
	Back to You	Shelley	Episode: "Date Night"
2009	Heroes	Charlie Andrews	Episodes: "Tabula Rasa", "Once Upon a Time in Texas"
2009–present	Glee	Emma Pillsbury	Series regular Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

External links

• Jayma Mays at IMDb
• Jayma Mays at TV.com