Jordan Fisher

Jordan William Fisher, born April 24, 1994, in Birmingham, Alabama, is an American actor, singer, and dancer whose career spans Broadway, television, film, and recording. He grew up in nearby Trussville with his maternal grandparents, Rodney and Pat Fisher, who legally adopted him in 2005 at age 11. His biological mother was 16 at the time of his birth and, as she struggled with substance abuse, did not maintain a relationship with her children. Rodney and Pat Fisher also adopted Jordan's two siblings, Cory and Trinity. Fisher has described his ethnic background as Nigerian, Cambodian, English, Polynesian (Tahitian), Italian, Greek, and Scandinavian. He began gymnastics at age 2 and entered musical theater in fifth grade after being cast in a school production of School House Rock, Jr. Home-schooled as a child, he earned a high school diploma from Harvest Christian Academy and later enrolled in courses at Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, Alabama in 2011. That same year he relocated to Los Angeles with his grandparents and siblings. Earlier in his youth, Fisher was a member of the Red Mountain Theatre Company in Birmingham, where a talent scout spotted him and offered representation.

Fisher made his Broadway debut on November 22, 2016, stepping into Hamilton as John Laurens and Philip Hamilton, roles previously held by Anthony Ramos. His final performance in the production was March 5, 2017. He returned to Broadway on January 28, 2020, taking over the title role in the Tony Award-winning Dear Evan Hansen, becoming the first actor of color to assume the role on a full-time basis. He received a Broadway.com Audience Choice Award for the performance and remained with the production through 2022. In 2023, Fisher portrayed Anthony Hope in the Broadway revival of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and later that year took on the starring role of Orpheus in Hadestown, continuing in that production through January 2025. He subsequently appeared as Christian in Moulin Rouge! The Musical in a temporary engagement running from April to July 2025. In 2019, he participated in a workshop of MJ the Musical, playing the role of Michael Jackson.

On television, Fisher's earliest credited appearances came in 2009 as a guest on The Hustler on Crackle and iCarly on Nickelodeon. He went on to play Jacob Bowman Gudina, the half-brother of Grace Bowman, across seasons 4 and 5 of ABC Family's The Secret Life of the American Teenager beginning in 2012. From 2015 to 2017, he portrayed the recurring character Holden Dippledorf on the Disney Channel series Liv and Maddie. He played the surfer gang leader Seacat in the cable television films Teen Beach Movie (2013) and Teen Beach 2 (2015). In the 2016 Fox live broadcast Grease: Live!, Fisher starred as Anthony "Doody" DelFuego opposite Carly Rae Jepsen, performing "Those Magic Changes" in a rendition that drew particular attention. He appeared as Ian Johnson in a 2016 episode of Bones and starred as Mark Cohen in Fox's Rent: Live in 2019. From 2018 to 2020, he voiced Sea Hawk in the animated series She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, and from 2021 to 2022 he voiced Bart Allen / Impulse on the CW series The Flash. Additional voice work includes MC Grillz in Karma's World (2021–2022) and Wilbur in the HBO Max animated musical Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed: The Underground Rock Experience (2022). In 2024, he starred in The 5-Year Christmas Party on the Hallmark Channel.

In film, Fisher appeared in the 2020 Netflix productions To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You and Work It. In September 2017, he competed on the 25th season of Dancing with the Stars paired with Lindsay Arnold, and on November 21 the two were declared champions of the Mirrorball Trophy, making Fisher the youngest male winner in the show's history at age 23 at that time. He went on to host Dancing with the Stars: Juniors in 2018 and served as a commentator for the 2019 Fortnite World Cup. In December 2023, he served as a guest narrator at Disney's Candlelight Processional at Walt Disney World.

As a recording artist, Fisher released three pop-soul songs through Radio Disney in 2014 — "By Your Side," "Never Dance Alone," and "What I Got" — before signing with Hollywood Records in 2015. His debut single "All About Us," produced by Warren "Oak" Felder of Pop & Oak, was released on April 15, 2016, and ranked as the second-most added song on pop radio stations for the week of June 13, 2016. His self-titled EP followed on August 19, 2016, released by Hollywood Records; Fisher has described its sound as pop-soul-R&B influenced by 1980s soul music. He is featured alongside Lin-Manuel Miranda on "You're Welcome," an end-credits track for the 2016 Disney animated film Moana, and appears on Olivia Holt's 2016 debut EP on the track "Thin Air." Additional singles include "Mess" (2017), "Be Okay" (2019), "Contact" and "Walking on the Ceiling" (2020). Fisher plays six instruments: piano, guitar, bass, harmonica, French horn, and drums. He also voiced and motion-captured the role of Matthew Taylor in the 2015 video game Until Dawn, reprising the role in the game's 2024 remaster.