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Leslie Jordan at an event for La Couleur des sentiments (2011)

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  • Jailed for drunk driving, he once shared a cell with Robert Downey Jr..
  • He didn't own his first home until the age of sixty-seven.
  • Jordan died on the morning of October 24, 2022, at the age of 67. He had been driving in Hollywood when he suffered a suspected medical emergency and crashed his BMW into the side of a building.
  • He grew up riding horses, then started exercising them and "toyed" with being a jockey, until he went to college at age 27 and took an Intro to Theater class.
  • During the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, he gained viral fame by posting offbeat videos on Instagram, reaching 4.7 million viewers. A new TV show and potential book deal soon followed.
  • Claimed his childhood heroes were Christopher Isherwood, Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams and gay hustler boys.
  • Acted in a series of on-tape ads for Blockbuster Video, in which a dog would retrieve videotapes from the shelves by title.
  • He wrote, directed, and starred in the hit comedy "Hysterical Blindness," which poked playful fun at his growing up in the South. The play first ran off-Broadway for many years during the early 1990s and won critical acclaim. This production brought him to the attention of television producers, and led to a rash of TV sitcoms in which he continued to play the confused, humorous Southern boy. It is now being revived and updated in New York.

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