Jordan Fisher

He covered the 1971 Ten Years After song "I'd Love to Change the World" for the 2017 ABC miniseries When We Rise.

Fisher has performed at numerous WE Day concerts across the United States, to benefit WE Charity.

Jordan William Fisher (born April 24, 1994) is an American actor, singer, and dancer.

Fisher was born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1994 and grew up in nearby Trussville.

Jordan's biological mother was 16 at the time of his birth, and he was legally adopted in 2005 at age 11 and raised by his maternal grandparents, Rodney and Pat Fisher.

The Fishers also adopted Jordan's two siblings, Cory and Trinity, as their mother struggled with substance abuse – she did not have a relationship with the children.

During an interview with Hollywood Today Live, Fisher revealed his multi-ethnic background of Nigerian, Cambodian, English, Polynesian (Tahitian), Italian, Greek, and Scandinavian origin.

Fisher became involved in gymnastics at age 2 and mail delivery age 11.

He became interested in musical theater in the fifth grade, after being cast in a school production of School House Rock, Jr. Fisher was home-schooled as a child and earned a high school diploma from Harvest Christian Academy.

He joined the Red Mountain Theatre Company in Birmingham and was part of their youth performing ensemble for many years.

There, he was spotted by a talent scout who offered to represent him.

He enrolled in courses at Jacksonville State University in 2011.

Later that year, he moved to Los Angeles, California, with his grandparents and siblings.

He began his career with recurring roles on several television series, including The Secret Life of the American Teenager in 2012 and Liv and Maddie from 2015 to 2017.

He also had supporting roles in the television films Teen Beach Movie (2013), Teen Beach 2 (2015) and Grease Live (2016), The Flash (2021-2022) and starred in Rent: Live (2019).

In 2014, Fisher released three pop-soul songs on Radio Disney: "By Your Side", "Never Dance Alone" and "What I Got".

In 2015, he signed a record deal with Hollywood Records.

In 2015, Fisher joined Disney Channel Circle of Stars for a remake of the song "Do You Want to Build a Snowman?" from the film Frozen.

For his role on Liv and Maddie, he sang both a duet and ballad version of the song "True Love", which appeared on the show's soundtrack in 2015.

He contributed two tracks, "Fallin' For Ya" and "Wanna Be With You", along with vocals on three others, to the Teen Beach 2 soundtrack, released in 2015.

He is also featured on Olivia Holt's self-titled debut EP on "Thin Air".

As a singer, his self-titled EP was released by Hollywood Records in 2016.

On Broadway, Fisher portrayed John Laurens and Philip Hamilton in Hamilton from 2016 to 2017.

On February 1, 2016, he released "Counterfeit", his first track for the label.

Fisher's first single, "All About Us", was released on April 15, 2016, and produced by Warren "Oak" Felder of the production duo Pop & Oak.

The song's music video, directed by TK McKamy, premiered on Vibe.com on May 11, 2016.

For the week of June 13, 2016, "All About Us" ranked as the second-most added song on pop radio stations.

It is the first track on Fisher's self-titled EP, which was released on August 19, 2016.

He has referred to the EP's sound as pop-soul-R&B, influenced by '80s soul music.

Fisher plays six instruments: piano, guitar, bass, harmonica, French horn and drums.

On March 13, 2016, he sang the national anthem before the NASCAR Good Sam 500 stock car race at the Phoenix International Raceway in Avondale, Arizona.

At the 2016 Apple Music Festival in London, Fisher opened for Alicia Keys.

Fisher is featured alongside Lin-Manuel Miranda on "You're Welcome", an end-credits song for the 2016 animated Disney film Moana.

In July 2016, he was picked as Elvis Duran's Artist of the Month and was featured on NBC's Today show hosted by Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb and broadcast nationally where he performed live his single "All About Us".

Fisher and his dancing partner Lindsay Arnold won the 25th season of Dancing with the Stars (2017).

Fisher's single "Mess" was released on October 6, 2017.

He subsequently hosted Dancing with the Stars: Juniors in 2018, and commentated the 2019 Fortnite World-Cup.

From 2020 to 2022, he took on the leading role of Evan Hansen in Dear Evan Hansen.

In 2023, he played the role of Anthony Hope in a Broadway revival of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and later that year took over the starring role of Orpheus in Hadestown.

He has also starred in the 2020 Netflix films To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You and Work It and voiced Sea Hawk in She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.