Jayma Mays

Jamia Suzette Jayma Mays is an American actress and singer. She is known for playing Emma Pillsbury on the Fox musical series Glee, her recurring role as Charlie Andrews on the NBC scifi serial Heroes, and for starring in the films Paul Blart Mall Cop and The Smurfs. From October 2013 until November 2014, she played the role of Debbie on the sitcom The Millers.

Mays was born in Bristol, Tennessee and raised in Grundy, Virginia, the daughter of Susan Paulette and James Edwin Mays, a high school teacher who also worked in the coal mining industry. 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 associates degree from Southwest Virginia Community College. Mays then attended Virginia Tech for a year before transferring to Radford University.

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