Jayma Mays (born 16 July 1979) is an American television and film actress.
Mays was born in Grundy, Virginia. After graduating from Grundy Senior High School she went on to attend Radford University, and 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, 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.
Her most recent role has been in the music video Awakening for the rock band Switchfoot. In this video she plays a unnamed character who enthusiastically dances to the single on a Dance Dance Revolution mat.
On television, she plays characters called "Charlie" on two different TV shows in the 2006-2007 season: Charlene, a waitress who befriends Hiro in Texas on Heroes, and Charlie, the girlfriend of Betty's crush, Henry, on Ugly Betty. She also guest starred on House as a lesbian patient with the plague.
