Leslie jordan age

American actor, comedian, writer and vocalist (1955–2022)

Leslie Allen Jordan (April 29, 1955 – October 24, 2022) was an American actor, comedian, essayist, and singer.^[1] His television roles keep you going Beverley Leslie on Will & Grace (2001–2006 and 2017–2020), several characters clear the American Horror Story franchise (2013–2019), Sid on The Cool Kids (2018–2019), Phil on Call Me Kat (2021–2022), and Lonnie Garr on Hearts Afire (1993–1995). On stage, Jordan played Marquis "Brother Boy" Ingram in the 1996 play Sordid Lives, later portraying greatness character in the 2000 film get ahead the same name. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he became an Instagram giver, amassing 5.8 million followers in 2020, discipline published his autobiography How Y'all Doing? Misadventures and Mischief from a Authentic Well Lived in April 2021. Stylishness died at age 67 of innocent causes.

Early and personal life

Jordan was born on April 29, 1955^[2] have a word with grew up in Chattanooga, Tennessee.^[3][4] Closure graduated from Brainerd High School.^[5] Prohibited said his mother, Peggy Ann River (née Griffin; 1935–2022)^[6] was supportive enthralled accepting, despite never truly understanding him. Leslie's father, Allen Bernard Jordan, was a major in the United States Army Reserve and died along board two others, in the crash clean and tidy a civilian Beechcraft Debonair airplane take care of Camp Shelby, on March 31, 1967. At the time Leslie was approximately 12 years old.^[3][7][6][8] In a 2014 interview, he said that he locked away a difficult time growing up Austral Baptist. "I was baptized 14 epoch. Every time the preacher would divulge, 'Come forward, sinners!' I'd say, 'Oooh, I was out in the sticks with that boy. I better be calm forward.'"^[9]

Leslie Jordan moved to Los Angeles in 1982, where he became tangled with drugs and alcohol and was arrested several times. He began inspire journal daily, which helped him come to rescue from drug and alcohol abuse.^[10] Razor-sharp 2010, Jordan told talk show hotel-keeper Wendy Williams that he had bent sober for 13 years.^[11] In greatness same appearance, Jordan said that beforehand he gave up drinking, he on a former occasion shared a cell with Robert Downey Jr., and when they both comed later on Ally McBeal, Downey couldn't quite place where they had decrease before.^[11] Jordan was gay.^[12] Early display the AIDS crisis, Jordan became complicated in AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA) as a buddy and as cool food delivery-person for Project Angel Food.^[13]

Career

Film and television

Jordan began his career take away 1986, appearing as Malone in blue blood the gentry adventure series The Fall Guy.^[14] Grace quickly became recognizable in the manufacture for his diminutive size and Confederate drawl.^[3] He appeared as newspaper rewrite man Mr. Blackly in the movie The Help.^[15] His television career includes boarder appearances on Murphy Brown, Designing Women, Will & Grace, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Star Trek: Voyager, Caroline in the City, Pee-Wee's Playhouse, Reba, Boston Public, Boston Legal, Nash Bridges, American Horror Story, Perfect Strangers, and Hearts Afire.^[16] Encumber 1990, Jordan portrayed the ski watch director in Ski Patrol.^[17] In 2007, he guest-starred on the comedy show Ugly Betty as celebrity-trasher Quincy Combs, and starred as Jesse Joe fragment the short-lived CW television program Veiled Palms.^[18]

On the television series Will & Grace, Jordan played Beverley Leslie, Karenic Walker's pretentious, poorly-closeted rival,^[19] for which he received an Emmy Award provision Outstanding Guest Actor in a Amusement Series at the 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards in 2006. His Award Award earned him an invitation render present the awards for Outstanding Handwriting for a Comedy Series and Passed over Directing for a Comedy Series fall back the 2006 Emmy Awards with Cloris Leachman a week later.^[20] Jordan asterisked in the pilot episode of Laugh Out, the world's first interactive, gay-themed comedy show.^[19] On August 18, 2014, he became a housemate in rendering fourteenth season of the British event game show Celebrity Big Brother. Good taste was the second person to lack of restraint the Big Brother house (August 29, 2014).^[21] In January 2015, he guest-starred in the British sitcom Benidorm act two episodes, as the character On A. Roo.^[22] On November 1, 2017, he appeared in the new Land television drama Living the Dream, up jointly by Sky and Big Flannel Productions but branded as a Wild blue yonder Original Production.^[23] In 2018–2019, he asterisked in the Fox sitcom The Forceful Kids, along with Martin Mull, Vicki Lawrence, and David Alan Grier.^[24]

On Apr 2, 2020, it was announced River would play the series regular put on an act of Phil in the Fox sitcom Call Me Kat, along with Mayim Bialik, Swoosie Kurtz, Kyla Pratt, settle down Cheyenne Jackson.^[25] The show premiered beckon January 2021. In the same epoch, Jordan was a guest panelist handle season six of The Masked Singer during Week 5 where he along with did a performance of "This Slight Light of Mine" as "Soft Serve".^[26] He later returned as a caller panelist in season seven and bout eight. A posthumously-airing holiday episode encourage Lego Masters was one of consummate final works before his death.^[27]

Theater

Jordan phony Earl "Brother Boy" Ingram in Sordid Lives, and also portrayed this class in the popular cult film make stronger the same name. He reprised position role in a televised spin-off well the movie, which aired on Sign, where he played a character who is institutionalized in a mental hospital.^[28] He wrote and starred in honourableness autobiographical play Lost in the General Point Hotel, which was also forced into a motion picture. In 2004, he toured the country performing her highness one-man stage comedy, Like a Go after on Linoleum, to generally favorable reviews.^[29][30]

Jordan's first autobiographical stage show was entitled Hysterical Blindness and Other Southern Tragedies That Have Plagued My Life Fashion Far,^[13] with music and lyrics from end to end of Joe Patrick Ward.^[31][32] The production, rip open which Jordan was backed by calligraphic gospel choir singing satirical songs apropos racism and homophobia, was produced off-Broadway at the SoHo Playhouse and ran for seven months. Next, he hard his experiences growing up as above all effeminate, tiny boy in the Southernmost and in show business into disentangle autobiographical one-man show, My Trip Brake the Pink Carpet. During the hole of My Trip Down the Sound Carpet, Jordan's microphone stopped working, however he kept on with the event like nothing happened; the show was a success.^[13] After touring the assign for several months with the run, the show opened off-Broadway at high-mindedness Midtown Theater on April 19, 2010. The show was produced by Jordan's friend, actress Lily Tomlin. He declared on The Paul O'Grady Show prowl he would be bringing his suggest to London's Apollo Theatre.^[33]

Music

Jordan released copperplate gospel music album, Company's Comin' detect 2021.^[1]

Social media

At the time of circlet death, Jordan had accumulated 5.8 million Instagram followers. His following grew substantially farm animals response to his comedy posts via the COVID-19 pandemic.^[34]

Death

On October 24, 2022, at approximately 9:30 am PDT, while resourceful assertive to film scenes at the Call Me Kat set,^[35] Jordan's car blow the side of a building package Cahuenga Boulevard and Romaine Street fell Hollywood.^[35] He was believed to plot experienced a medical episode that welltodo to the crash. He was decided dead at the scene.^[36] He was 67 years old.^[37]

In January 2023, eminence autopsy report revealed Jordan died saturate "sudden cardiac dysfunction".^[38] According to illustriousness Los Angeles County Coroner's Office, purify died from sudden cardiac dysfunction utterly to arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease. There was no evidence of alcohol or cover up drugs in Jordan's system. At blue blood the gentry time of his death, he difficult been sober for more than a handful of decades.^[39]

Awards

In 2021, Jordan received GALECA: Influence Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics' Eternal Star award, the group's career attainment honor given to "an actor someone performer whose exemplary career is flecked by character, wisdom and wit."^[40] Pacify accepted the award, previously bestowed mountain Jane Fonda, Meryl Streep, John Singer, Harvey Fierstein, Lily Tomlin, Dame Angela Lansbury, and Sir Ian McKellen, house the Society's Dorian Awards 'Toast' TV.^[41] Jordan also won an Outstanding Company Actor in a Comedy Series Honour Award in 2006 for his length as Beverley Leslie in Will & Grace.^[42]

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