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	Jayma Mays
Gender:	Female
Age:	33
Born:	July 16, 1979
Character:	Emma Pillsbury
Occupation:	Actress
Years Active:	2004-present

Jayma Suzette Mays (born July 16, 1979), is a 33-year-old American television and film actress best known for her performance as Emma Pillsbury, a guidance counsellor on the FOX musical-comedy TV show, Glee.

Biography

Mays was born in Grundy, Virginia as Jamia Suzette Mays . After graduating from Grundy Senior High School, she attended 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 House, Six Feet Under, The Comeback, Entourage, Stacked, How I Met Your Mother, Heroes, Ghost Whisperer and Ugly Betty. Jayma was in other movies, such as: Bar Starz, Flags of Our Fathers and Blind Dating. She also starred in the spoof film Epic Movie where she met her husband Adam Campbell.

She has played the love interest of a character played by Masi Oka in two different roles: Charlie 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.^[1] She also stars as Amy in Paul Blart: Mall Cop.

She is currently starring on the FOX TV show Glee, as Emma Pillsbury. It premiered on September 9, 2009. Jayma has been in four seasons of the series so far.

Mays played the female lead in a live action/animation hybrid film version of the Smurfs.

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Role
2005	Red Eye	Cynthia
2006	Blind Dating	Mandy
2006	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

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2004	Joey	Molly	1 episode
2005	The Comeback	Sales Girl	1 episode
	Six Feet Under	Donna	1 episode
	How I Met Your Mother	Coat Check Girl	2 episodes
	Stacked	Brenda	1 episode
2005- 2006	Entourage	Jennifer	3 episodes (1 uncredited)
2006	If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home Now	Sandra	TV pilot
	House	Hannah	1 episode
	30 Even Scarier Movie Moments	Herself	TV miniseries
	Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip	Daphne	1 episode (pilot)
	Heroes	Charlie Andrews	3 episodes
2007	Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office	Angela	TV pilot
	Back to You	Shelley	1 episode
	Ugly Betty	Charlie	8 episodes
	Ghost Whisperer	Jennifer Billings	1 episode
2008	Pushing Daisies	Elsita / Elsa	1 episode
2009	Glee	Emma	Series regular (Seasons 1-3) Recurring (Season 4)
2012	The League	Trixie Von Stein	3 episodes

Trivia

She likes cats.
She only uses white towels.
She loves country music.
Has "Bambi eyes".
Referred to by her co-stars as "Jayma-mazing ".
Yellow is her favourite color.
She loves Indian food.
She eats a peanut butter sandwich every day.
She has 2 cats called Heidi and Fräulein.
Because her husband is English, she sometimes slips into a British accent without realizing it.
She is best friends with Glee co-stars Jessalyn Gilsig and Matthew Morrison.
She sang Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch Me for her Glee audition.
She has dimples.
Earlier in her television career she was a guest star on a season one episode of “How I Met Your Mother”, a show with Neil Patrick Harris apart of the cast. Year later, Harris appeared in a season one episode of “Glee”, a show with Jayma Mays apart of the cast. Then in 2011, they both stared in the screen adaption of “Smurfs”.
She worked with Matthew on the 2007 pilot Nice Girls Don't Get The Corner Office, he played Angela's friend and co-worker Brody.
She is 5'4".