Jeremy Jordan

Jeremy Michael Jordan, born November 20, 1984, in Corpus Christi, Texas, is an American actor whose career spans Broadway, film, television, and voice work. He was raised in Corpus Christi by his mother, Debbie (née Stone), alongside his brother Joey and sister Jessa after his parents divorced. His mother is Jewish, with family roots among emigrants from Russia, Poland, Latvia, and Lithuania, and his father is of English, Scottish, Welsh, and German descent; Jordan identifies as Jewish. He attended Mary Carroll High School, where he was active in choir, and later earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in musical theatre from Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York. His path toward singing began during a recovery from injuries sustained in a car crash in seventh grade — the same crash that killed his stepmother — when he was unable to participate in sports.

Jordan's professional stage work began before his Broadway debut. In 2008, he played Alex in The Little Dog Laughed at Hartford Theatreworks, earning a Connecticut Critics Circle nomination, and later that year portrayed Tom Sawyer in Big River at the Goodspeed Opera House in Connecticut. He made his Broadway debut in 2009 as part of the cast of Rock of Ages and that same year served as an alternate for the role of Tony in the Broadway revival of West Side Story. He originated the role of Clyde Barrow in the pre-Broadway tryout of Bonnie & Clyde in Sarasota, Florida, in 2010, a production with music by Frank Wildhorn and lyrics by Don Black, and reprised the role when the show opened on Broadway on December 1, 2011, running for 36 performances before closing on December 30.

Jordan first played Jack Kelly in the stage version of Newsies at the Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey in the fall of 2011, then reprised the role in Disney's Newsies on Broadway, which opened at the Nederlander Theatre on March 29, 2012. The production featured music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Jack Feldman, and a book by Harvey Fierstein. His performance earned him a 2012 Tony Award nomination for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical, a Theatre World Award in 2012, and a 2013 Grammy Award nomination for Best Musical Theatre Album as a principal soloist on the original cast recording. He concluded his run in Newsies on September 4, 2012, while simultaneously filming episodes of the NBC series Smash, in which he played Jimmy Collins during the show's second season in 2013.

Beyond his leading musical roles, Jordan appeared in a range of concert and staged productions throughout this period. In November 2013, he took part in the Stephen Sondheim and Wynton Marsalis staged concert A Bed and A Chair for Encores! at New York City Center, alongside Norm Lewis and Bernadette Peters. In February 2015, he starred as Leo Frank opposite Laura Benanti, Joshua Henry, and Ramin Karimloo in a concert production of Parade at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall. He also appeared in the 2014/2015 English concept album of Death Note: The Musical as Light Yagami, and in June 2016 reprised the role of Tony in Hollywood Bowl concerts of West Side Story alongside Karen Olivo and George Akram.

In October 2018, Jordan joined the Broadway cast of the play American Son alongside Kerry Washington and Steven Pasquale, a role he and his castmates later reprised in the play's 2019 Netflix film adaptation. The following summer, he starred as Dr. Jim Pomatter in the Broadway production of Waitress opposite Shoshana Bean. In 2021, he played Seymour Krelborn in the reopening cast of the Off-Broadway revival of Little Shop of Horrors following the COVID-19 pandemic, and returned to the production for an eight-week engagement in 2023, running from July 25 through September 17. In January 2022, he reprised his role of Clyde Barrow for a one-night-only concert in London's West End, marking his West End debut.

Jordan returned to Broadway in a leading role with the original cast of The Great Gatsby, a new musical adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel featuring music and lyrics by Jason Howland and Nathan Tysen and a book by Kait Kerrigan. The production starred Jordan alongside Eva Noblezada and had its world premiere at the Paper Mill Playhouse on October 12, 2023, before transferring to the Broadway Theatre, where previews began March 29, 2024, and the official opening night was April 25, 2024. Jordan departed the cast in January 2025, with Ryan McCartan assuming the role, though Jordan rejoined the production from November 2025 through March 2026.

In November 2024, it was announced that Jordan would star in the Broadway premiere of Floyd Collins in the title role at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre. The production ran from March 2025 through June 2025 and earned Jordan his second Tony Award nomination. He is also set to replace Jonathan Groff as Bobby Darin in Just in Time on Broadway at the Circle in the Square Theatre beginning April 21, 2026.

Jordan's screen career has run parallel to his stage work. He appeared in the Warner Bros. film Joyful Noise, opposite Queen Latifah, Keke Palmer, and Dolly Parton, which opened January 13, 2012. He starred opposite Anna Kendrick in the 2014 musical film The Last Five Years, a film adaptation of the Jason Robert Brown musical, in which he played Jamie Wellerstein to Kendrick's Cathy Hiatt; the film was shot over three weeks in June 2013 and released in February 2015. From 2015 to 2021, he played Winslow "Winn" Schott Jr. on the CBS/CW superhero drama series Supergirl, and from 2017 to 2020 voiced Varian in the Disney Channel animated series Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure. Since 2024, he has voiced Lucifer Morningstar in the adult animated musical series Hazbin Hotel, a role for which he received an Annie Award nomination for Best Voice Acting in TV/Media. Earlier in his career, he made a television appearance in 2008 on NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in the episode "Streetwise."