Character roles in TV shows and movies have made American actor and comedian Leslie Jordan famous. He was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on April 29, 1955. The following details regarding Leslie Jordan’s life, including her height, weight, and other details:
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Leslie Jordan Biography
Leslie (Allen) Jordan, a character actor, had a remarkable aptitude for stealing scenes despite having a short (4′ 11″) stature. He was born in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 29, 1955, and raised in a very conservative, very religious environment in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He was from the South, as his dead-giveaway drawl instantly revealed. When he was only 11 years old, his father, a Lieutenant Colonel in the Army, perished in a flying accident.
Uncertain of his path in life, he headed directly for Los Angeles in an effort to break into commercials and on-camera work. He had an irresistible tendency for comedy and high camp, in addition to an impish smile and pocket-sized structure. After receiving acting instruction from Carolyne Barry, who oversaw the Professional Artist’s Group in the 1980s, Leslie quickly discovered that he was extremely marketable in television commercials (for Doritos, Foster’s Beer, etc.). The next step was always television, where he would score progressively bigger roles on shows like “The Fall Guy,” “The Wizard,” “Night Court,” “Newhart,” and “Midnight Caller.” The People Next Door (1989), a short-lived comedy-fantasy series starring Alan Parker, gave him his first regular role. The program, which took its cue from “The Far Side” comic strip, starred Jeffrey Jones as a cartoonist with the ability to manifest his irrational fantasies.
Leslie made her cinematic debut in the late 1980s with a small role in the Richard Pryor comedy Moving (1988). She then played Iggy, a hunchback version of Igor, in the wacky horror parody Frankenstein General Hospital (1988), which starred comedic actor Mark Blankfield as the insane doctor. Leslie began her career acting in a lot of low-budget films, including, but not limited to, Ski Patrol (1990), Missing Pieces (1991), Hero (1992), Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993), Barcelona (1994), Eat Your Heart Out (1997), and Black Velvet Pantsuit (1995).
Leslie continued to write more and more during the 1990s. Regular theatergoers in Los Angeles would be familiar with him from such prone-to-misbehaving roles as Brother Boy, an institutionalized drag queen in “Sordid Lives,” and Peanut, a recurrent barfly in “Southern Baptist Sissies.” His own one-man testimonials, such as the off-Broadway “Hysterical Blindness” and “Like a Dog on Linoleum,” demonstrate his skill at baring his soul and disclosing his childhood suffering while laughing and crying on stage. But these very reflective programs have a cost. Jordan, a self-described sex addict and substance abuser, confronted his inner demons and finished his recovery in 1996.
Over the years, TV proved to be a particularly alluring medium, and he received a lot of unusual jobs. He was well-known for his catchy cameos on numerous series, including Caroline in the City (1995), Star Trek: Voyager (1995), Weird Science (1994), Murphy Brown (1988), Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993), and Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993). He was also a supporting regular on several series, including the comedy Top of the Heap (1991) with Joseph Bologna and Matt LeBlanc
With the release of the semi-autobiographical movie Lost in the Pershing Point Hotel (2000) into the new millennium, he had the pleasure of witnessing one of his own writing endeavors come to reality. In Sordid Lives (2000), he had the opportunity to replicate his “Big Brother” performance for the big screen. The work continued to flow in films like Mangus! (2011), the critically acclaimed [link=tt1454029, his stage role as “Peanut” in the gay-themed Southern Baptist Sissies (2013) written and directed by Del Shores, another co-star role as in Undead or Alive: A Zombedy (2007), Eating Out: All You Can Eat (2009), and I’ll Wave Back (2000). He also appeared in the short films Farm Sluts
His work on TV’s Ally McBeal (1997), Boston Public (2000), Judging Amy (1999), Monk (2002), Reba (2001), Boston Legal (2004), Ugly Betty (2006), Desperate Housewives (2004), Raising Hope (2010), and American Horror Story (2011) was both amusing and sadly poignant. The highlight, though, was Leslie’s dryly sardonic, part-time role as mincing elitist Beverley Leslie on the wildly successful sitcom Will & Grace (1998), the small thorn in Megan Mullally’s side. Trading vicious jabs with Mullally’s Karen character, Leslie went on to win an Emmy, milking the comedy for all its worth. He also had an appearance in the 2018 cult television film The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time.
Weight And Height
Leslie Jordan is 123 pounds (56 kg) and 4 feet 11 inches (150 cm) tall. He has a slim frame and has been upfront about his weight struggles his whole life.
Personal Life
Leslie Jordan has been a vocal supporter of LGBTQ+ rights and is openly gay. He has also spoken out in public about his fight with addiction and his path to sobriety.
A memoir about Jordan’s life and career, titled “How Y’all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived,” was published in 2020.