Glee star Jayma Mays welcomes first child with husband Adam Campbell

Jayma Mays, a singer-actress best known for playing Emma Pillsbury on Glee, is a new mom.

The 37-year-old actress, who's also been seen on Heroes and The Millers, welcomed son Jude this past August with her husband Adam Campbell, a British actor, E! first reported.

The couple first united in 2006 while working on the comedy spoof Epic Movie, getting to know one another well through the filming process.

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New parents: Jayma Mays and Adam Campbell, seen here at a 2014 Glee event, welcomed baby son Jude this past August 

Red carpet ravisher: The beautiful actress was seen at a 2015 event in Los Angeles for the non-profit Milk + Bookies

Fresh-faced: The songstress appeared in 85 episodes of the Fox musical hit from 2009 until 2015

Jayma described the details of their unlikely courtship to to US in 2013.

'We played brother and sister, which is so incredibly sexy. We were very responsible, very professional, but that’s how we met,' said Jayma, who's also been seen on How I Met Your Mother, The League and Ugly Betty. 'So we got to goof off, basically, every day together for three months and get to know each other really well.

Double-threat: The hit show gave Jayma a chance to display her talents in both singing and acting

'And then we started dating,' said Mays, who tied the knot with Campbell in October of 2007.

In an earlier interview with the outlet, Mays praised her husband, who's also been seen on programs such as Mixology, Dice and The Comedians, for doing all the little things a spouse could ask for.

'He makes me coffee every single morning which I could not live without, so every morning I feel so lucky, and I thank him every day,' the Tennessee-born beauty said.

Foreshadowing: The new mom got some practice with strollers in a Glee episode with co-star Matthew Morrison last year

Mays is currently working on the NBC comedy Trial & Error, which co-stars John Lithgow, Sherri Shepherd and Steven Boyer, and is slated to premiere next year. In it, she plays an assistant district attorney named Carol Anne Keane who's prosecuting Lithgow's character over the murder of his wife, according to Deadline.

It's been a fruitful season for McKinley High School alums, as a few of Mays' co-stars on the Ryan Murphy musical hit have also had reason to pass out cigars in recent times.

Heather Morris, who played Brittany Pierce on the show, had her second baby with spouse Taylor Hubbell February 11, son Owen Bartlett. Stunning Naya Rivera, who played Santana Lopez, welcomed had her first child, Josey Hollis Dorsey, with husband Ryan Dorsey on September 17, 2015.

Already great with kids: Mays posed with child actor Jacob Tremblay, who she worked with on The Smurfs 2

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