Eaddy Mays

After completing college, Mays remained in the North Georgia area working in commercial radio and television in both Athens and Atlanta, Georgia. She was Operations Manager as well as Morning Show co-host at WGMG FM radio station and continued her involvement with community theatre directing "Steel Magnolias"[6] and starring in "Crimes of the Heart" as Meg MaGrath.[7]

Though Mays worked in local television hosting a music video show at WNGM-TV34 in Athens, Georgia, (now known as WUVG-DT) her earliest credited television work was in the 1996 pilot episode of the crime procedural Profiler (TV series), in which she portrayed a police desk sergeant.

For several years, Mays continued to accumulate multiple television and film credits in the Southeast taking advantage of the tremendous growth in the region's entertainment industry stimulated by the 2008 tax incentive signed by former Georgia Governor, Sonny Perdue. The tax incentive created an exponential expansion of film and television production in Georgia gave Atlanta the nickname, "Hollywood of the South."[8] But the growth also increased competition in the market, as Mays's is reported saying during an interview with Atlanta's NBC affiliate WXIA-TV 11Alive: "L.A. actors are saying 'We'll come to Atlanta; we'll work as local talent; we'll fly ourselves here, and we'll work for scale….That means we as actors have to be more competitive. We can't look like local hires anymore."[9]

In 2009, when cast as a cancer patient for a Lexington Medical Center commercial, Mays shaved her own head completely bald,[10] capturing the event on video which was posted by Lexington Medical Center on YouTube. This radical change in appearance prompted a shift in Mays's career and shortly thereafter she was cast in the recurring role of "Victoria Argent" in MTV's supernatural drama series, Teen Wolf. She appeared occasionally in season 1; and throughout season 2 she was featured as a chilling, memorable villain.[11] For her portrayal of Victoria Argent, Zap2it.com honored Mays as one of the "Underrated TV Stars of 2012."[12]

There was speculation about whether Mays would reprise her role in the third season of the show, which broadcast in the US in June 2013. When interviewed about the matter, Mays said, "It's Teen Wolf – anything is possible. No one knows anything for sure on this project; they even shot two endings to season two! …. You just never know, and that's part of why Teen Wolf is so wonderful and Jeff Davis [the show's creator and executive producer] is so brilliant."[13] Mays' Victoria Argent character ultimately did return in the third season of Teen Wolf, appearing in several episodes as a presence in her character's daughter's psyche, as well as in a flashback sequence in the mid-season finale.

In 2010, Mays expanded her career experience to include film and television producer[14] when she co-wrote, produced and starred in the independent feature film, romantic comedy Highland Fling, about a fun-loving Scotsman and a straight-laced southern belle shooting a reality TV show at a Scottish Highland Festival in small town America.[15]

Mays is in negotiations to sell Highland Fling, which is currently making the rounds of the independent film festival circuit after first being accepted as the opening night film at the Atlanta Underground Film Festival in 2012.[16]

Although Highland Fling is a fictional story, it involves actual, real-time events since Mays and her crew simultaneously produced the reality television show pilot, Under the Kilt.[14] Under the Kilt captures the making and unfolding of Gallabrae, the annual Scottish Highland Games held in Greenville, South Carolina. During the filming, Mays accepted an invitation to join a luncheon at the event where she dined sitting next to His Royal Highness, The Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex,[17] Most Distinguished Guest that year.

Mays was asked by producer, writer, Martin Thomas, to accept the co-leading role of "Stephanie" in the 2014 action, crime-thriller feature film Fighting Back.

In 2009, Mays moved the base of operation for her production company, Eaddy Mays Productions, Inc., from Los Angeles, California back to Atlanta, Georgia, where she now also owns and operates the company.