Leslie Allen Jordan (April 29, 1955 – October 24, 2022) Stage, film and television actor, comedian, writer, and singer. His television roles included Lonnie Garr on Hearts Afire (1993–1995), Beverley Leslie on Will & Grace (2001–2006, 2017–2020), for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series in 2006, several characters in the American Horror Story franchise (2013–2019), Sid on The Cool Kids (2018–2019), and Phil on Call Me Kat (2021–2022).
Jordan began his career in 1986, appearing as Malone in the adventure series The Fall Guy. He quickly became recognisable in the industry for his diminutive size and Southern drawl. His television career includes guest appearances on Murphy Brown, 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, and Hearts Afire.
In 2007, he guest-starred on the comedy drama Ugly Betty as celebrity-trasher Quincy Combs, and starred as Jesse Joe in the short-lived CW television program Hidden Palms.
On the television series Will & Grace, Jordan played Beverley Leslie, Karen's pretentious, sexually ambiguous rival, for which he received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series at the 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards in 2006. His Emmy Award earned him an invitation to present the awards for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series and Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series at the 2006 Emmy Awards with Cloris Leachman a week later.
Jordan starred in the pilot episode of Laugh Out, the world's first interactive, gay-themed comedy show. On August 18, 2014, Jordan became a housemate in the fourteenth season of the British reality game show Celebrity Big Brother. He was the second person to leave the Big Brother house (August 29, 2014). In January 2015, Jordan guest-starred in the British sitcom Benidorm for two episodes, as the character Buck A. Roo.
On November 1, 2017, Jordan appeared in the new British television drama Living the Dream, produced jointly by Sky and Big Talk Productions, but branded as a Sky Original Production.
In 2018-2019, Jordan starred in the Fox sitcom The Cool Kids, along with Martin Mull, Vicki Lawrence, and David Alan Grier.
On April 2, 2020, it was announced Jordan would play the role of Phil in the Fox sitcom Call Me Kat, along with Mayim Bialik, Swoosie Kurtz, Kyla Pratt, and Cheyenne Jackson. (Wikipedia)
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Three shows from 1992--a show too sophisticated for FOX, a quick burnout for an uber-producer, and Markie Post's SECOND sitcom.
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Can I just stop and say. How genuinely life-changing these past few months have been and how grateful I am for everyone who's come along for the ride? I started this summer burnt out and feeling lost and here I am, middle of July, with a job I wouldn't trade for the world and a wonderful community of people around me. Each and every one of you has made me feel so welcome and revived a part of myself I thought disappeared long ago in ways I can't even begin to describe. The Rock-afire Explosion fan base means the absolute WORLD to me, and I just wanna say, the fact that I get to actually meet some of you this coming weekend has me so insanely excited.
Anyway. :)
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