Leslie Jordan

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Leslie Jordan

Born Leslie Allen Jordan
April 29, 1955 (1955-04-29) (age 53)
Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
Official website

Leslie Allen Jordan (born April 29, 1955) is an American Emmy Award-winning actor.

Hailing from Chattanooga, Tennessee and at a height of just 4 ft 11 in (1.50 m), Jordan has become an instantly recognizable face in film and television. He is most well known for his television work - including guest appearances on Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Star Trek: Voyager, Reba, Boston Public, Boston Legal, and his secondary role on Hearts Afire. He has recently guest-starred on the popular comedy-drama Ugly Betty as celebrity-trasher Quincy Combs. In 2007, Jordan starred as Jesse Joe in the short-lived CW television program, Hidden Palms.

Jordan is best known for his role of Karen's pretentious rival Beverley Leslie on the hit series Will & Grace. For that role he received an Emmy Award for Best Guest Actor in a Comedy Series at the 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards in 2006.

Jordan is an accomplished stage actor and playwright. In one of his best-known performances onstage, he played Brother Boy in Sordid Lives, a role he took to the big screen in the popular cult film of the same name. Jordan has stated that he will be reprising his role as "Brother Boy" in the upcoming 2008 Del Shores' TV series "Sordid Lives: The Series" (LOGO/MTV) based on the film "Sordid Lives" with Emmy nominated actress Delta Burke.[1] He wrote and starred in the autobiographical play Lost in the Pershing Point Hotel, which was also made into a motion picture. He recently toured the country performing his one-man stage comedy, Like a Dog on Linoleum, to rave reviews. In this show, he tells stories of the high and low points of his life, from his father's death in a plane crash when he was just 11 years old, to his battles with substance abuse and his weakness for street hustlers.

Jordan, who is openly gay, has recently starred in the pilot episode of Laugh Out, the world's first interactive, gay-themed comedy show.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Tim Parks. "The ‘Sordid Lives’ of ‘Southern Baptist Sissies", The Gay and Lesbian Times, 17-Aug-2006. Retrieved on 2008-04-08. 

[edit] External links


v • d • e
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor - Comedy Series

Derek Jacobi (2001) · Anthony LaPaglia (2002) · Gene Wilder (2003) · John Turturro (2004) · Bobby Cannavale (2005) · Leslie Jordan (2006) · Stanley Tucci (2007)