Jeremy Jordan

Jeremy Michael Jordan (born November 20, 1984) is an American actor and singer.

He has performed on Broadway, in television and film, in concert, as well as in other theatrical productions.

Jordan was born on November 20, 1984, in Corpus Christi, Texas, where he was raised.

His parents divorced when he was young, and he lived in low-income housing, with his brother, Joey, sister, Jessa, and mother, Debbie (née Stone).

His stepmother died in a car crash when he was in 7th grade.

Jordan was injured and started to pursue singing when he had to take a break from sports during his recovery.

His father is of English, Scottish, Welsh and German descent, while his mother is Jewish (her parents' families were Jewish emigrants from Russia, Poland, Latvia, and Lithuania).

He has said, "I am Jewish... [growing up] we had Jewish holidays and Christian holidays. It was the best of both worlds."

He was an excellent student, graduating from Mary Carroll High School, where he was active in choir.

He graduated from Ithaca College, in Ithaca, New York, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in musical theatre.

Jordan sang as a teenager and began acting in high school.

In 2008, he starred as Alex in The Little Dog Laughed at Hartford Theatreworks, for which he received a Connecticut Critics Circle nomination.

Later that year, he played Tom Sawyer in Big River at the Goodspeed Opera House in Connecticut.

He made his Broadway debut in 2009 as part of Rock of Ages.

He appeared in the Broadway cast of Rock of Ages in 2009.

Jordan was an alternate for the leading role of Tony in the 2009 Broadway revival of West Side Story.

He also starred as Clyde Barrow in the 2010 pre-Broadway Sarasota, Florida, tryout of the new musical Bonnie & Clyde by Frank Wildhorn and Don Black.

Subsequently, he went to star in the original Broadway musicals Bonnie & Clyde (2011) as Clyde Barrow and Newsies (2012) as Jack Kelly, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award and a Grammy Award.

He has also appeared in the Broadway productions of the musicals West Side Story as Tony and Waitress as Dr. Jim Pomatter, as well as the play American Son on Broadway.

In 2021 and 2023, he starred as Seymour Krelborn in the Off-Broadway revival of Little Shop of Horrors. On screen, he starred opposite Anna Kendrick in the 2014 musical film The Last Five Years and as Jimmy Collins in the NBC series Smash (2013).

He debuted the role of Clyde when the show opened on Broadway on December 1, 2011.

The show closed on December 30, 2011, after 36 performances.

Jordan played Jack in the stage version of Newsies at the Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey in September and October 2011.

Jordan reprised the lead role as Jack Kelly in Disney's Newsies on Broadway, with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Jack Feldman, and book by Harvey Fierstein.

Newsies opened at the Nederlander Theatre on March 29, 2012.

For the role, Jordan was nominated for the 2012 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical.

He was nominated for a 2013 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theatre Album as a principal soloist on the Newsies original cast album.

He appeared in the Stephen Sondheim and Wynton Marsalis staged concert A Bed and A Chair for Encores! at New York City Center from November 13 to 17, 2013, along with Norm Lewis and Bernadette Peters.

In December 2013, Jordan appeared in Hit List, a concert presentation of the fictional musical created for the second season of Smash. He has performed at 54 Below in New York City many times as both a soloist and with his Smash costars.

Jordan was featured as Light Yagami in the 2014/2015 English concept album of Death Note: The Musical.

From 2015 to 2021, he played Winslow "Winn" Schott Jr. on the CBS/CW DC Comics-based superhero drama series Supergirl.

Since 2024, he has voiced Lucifer Morningstar in the adult animated musical series Hazbin Hotel.

On February 16, 2015, Jordan starred as Leo Frank, opposite Laura Benanti as Lucille Frank, Joshua Henry as Jim Conley, and Ramin Karimloo as Tom Watson, in the concert production of Parade, also written by Jason Robert Brown, at the Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall.

In June 2016, Jordan reprised his role as Tony in the Hollywood Bowl concerts of West Side Story, alongside Karen Olivo and George Akram.

In early 2016, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul approached Jordan to sing the part of Phillip Carlyle in a read through of The Greatest Showman, since Jordan recorded demos for the film in 2015.

The day before the read-through, the star Hugh Jackman underwent nasal surgery and was ordered by his doctor not to sing.

Pasek and Paul asked Jordan to also sing the leading part of PT Barnum while Jackman acted out the scenes, to which Jordan agreed.

In October 2018 Jordan appeared in the play American Son, on Broadway alongside Kerry Washington and Steven Pasquale, a role he and the others reprised in the play's 2019 Netflix film adaptation.

In 2019 Jordan started appearing in the musical Waitress on Broadway alongside Shoshana Bean.

In April 2021, he gave an interview on The Theatre Podcast with Alan Seales, discussing his 54/Below cabaret show "Carry On".