Leslie Jordan
American actor (1955–2022)
Leslie Allen Jordan (April 29, 1955 – October 24, 2022) was an American actor, comedian, writer, and singer. His television roles include Beverley Leslie on Will & Grace (2001–2006 and 2017–2020), several characters in 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 Earl "Brother Boy" Ingram in the 1996 play Sordid Lives, later portraying the character in the 2000 film of the same name. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he became an Instagram contributor, amassing 5.8 million followers in 2020, and published his autobiography How Y'all Doing? Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived in April 2021.
Early and personal life
Jordan was born in Memphis, Tennessee on April 29, 1955 and grew up in Chattanooga. He graduated from Brainerd High School. He said his mother, Peggy Ann Jordan (née Griffin; 1935–2022) was supportive and accepting, despite never truly understanding him. Leslie's father, Allen Bernard Jordan, was a major in the United States Army Reserve and died along with two others in the crash of a civilian Beechcraft Debonair airplane at Camp Shelby, on March 31, 1967. At the time Leslie was almost 12 years old.
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