Leslie Allen Jordan was an American actor, writer, and singer. His television roles included Lonnie Garr on Hearts Afire (1993–1995), Beverly 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 and Phil on Call Me Kat (2021–2023).
In theatre, he played Earl “Brother Boy” Ingram from Sordid Lives, and also portrayed the character in the popular cult film of the same name. During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Jordan became an Instagram sensation, amassing 5.8M followers.
In April 2021, he published his autobiography How Y’all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived.
In 2021, he released the gospel music album, Company’s Comin’. Jordan was later a guest panellist on season six of The Masked Singer during Week 5 where he also did a performance of “This Little Light of Mine” as a “Soft Serve”
Who are Leslie Jordan’s parents?
Leslie was born to parents Pegg Ann and Allen Bernard. Jordan Peggy Ann was born and raised in Chattanooga, where she worked as a medical secretary and realtor.
In 1953 she married Major Allen Bernard Jordan and had three children: Leslie and his identical twin sisters Jana Lynn and Janet Ann.
Jordan’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 aeroplane at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, on March 31, 1967, when Jordan was eleven years old.
Jordan said his mother, Peggy Ann (Griffin), was supportive and accepting, despite never truly understanding him. Peggy Ann died May 17, 2022, with her family by her side, according to an obituary. She was 86.