Leslie Jordan Via the Years: His Life in Pictures

A stunning loss. Leslie Jordan died on Monday, October 24, after a automotive crash in Los Angeles. He was 67.

“The world is certainly a a lot darker place right this moment with out the love and lightweight of Leslie Jordan,” David Shaul of BRS/Gage Expertise Company, a rep for the comic, informed Us Weekly in an announcement. “Not solely was he a mega expertise and pleasure to work with, however he offered an emotional sanctuary to the nation at one in every of its most tough instances. What he lacked in peak he made up for in generosity and greatness as a son, brother, artist, comic, associate and human being. Understanding that he has left the world on the peak of each his skilled and private life is the one solace one can have right this moment.”

After his dying, tributes poured in from his mates and former colleagues. Sean Hayes, who starred alongside the Emmy winner on Will & Grace, honored his late costar by way of social media.

“My coronary heart is damaged,” the Display screen Actors Guild Award winner, 52, tweeted on Monday. “Leslie Jordan was one of many funniest folks I ever had the pleasure of working with. Everybody who ever met him, liked him. There’ll by no means be anybody like him. A singular expertise with an unlimited, caring coronary heart. You can be missed, my pricey good friend.”

Tanya Tucker, who collaborated with Jordan on his 2021 gospel album, honored her good friend with a transferring Instagram submit. “The laughter has died together with my humorous humorous good friend, @thelesliejordan,” the nation icon, 64, wrote. “He was a vibrant gentle for all who was ever round him. We’ve misplaced, The world’s misplaced, his mates misplaced … And I misplaced right this moment a terrific good friend who made me smile and chortle even once I didn’t need to.”

Jordan’s showbiz profession started within the Eighties, when he landed roles in TV sequence together with The Fall Man, The Wizard and Night time Courtroom. After years of stage and display work, the Star Trek: Voyager alum grew to become a mainstream star together with his efficiency as Beverley Leslie on Will & Grace. In 2006, he took residence an Emmy for the position, successful Excellent Visitor Actor in a Comedy Collection.

The comic reprised the position within the revival of the NBC comedy, which ran for 3 seasons earlier than wrapping up in 2020. That very same 12 months, Jordan reached a brand new viewers with the viral video updates he shared by way of Instagram whereas quarantining amid the coronavirus pandemic. His regular greeting — “How y’all doing?” later grew to become the title of his 2021 memoir, How Y’all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Nicely Lived.

On the time of his dying, Jordan was starring within the third season of Name Me Kat, which additionally stars Mayim Bialik and Cheyenne Jackson. After his dying, TVLine reported that manufacturing on the Fox sitcom was on indefinite pause.

Maintain scrolling for a glance again at Jordan’s life in pictures.