Emmy Award-winning TV vet Leslie Jordan (Will & Grace, Call Me Kat) died on Monday in a automobile accident. He was 67.
As reported by TMZ, Jordan is suspected to have suffered some kind of medical emergency whereas driving, then crashed his automobile into the aspect of a constructing.
Jordan’s TV credit date again to the mid-Eighties, with roles on collection similar to The Fall Guy, Night Court, Murphy Brown and Newhart. His first common position got here with the CBS sitcom The People Next Door (as mailman Truman Fipps), adopted by runs within the Married… With Children spinoff Top of the Heap, the cop dramas Reasonable Doubts and Bodies of Evidence, and the CBS sitcom Hearts Afire.
Jordan recurred on Boston Public after which Boston Legal within the 2000s, throughout which era he arguably “broke out” as Will & Grace‘s Beverly Leslie, arch nemesis of Megan Mullally’s Karen Walker. For that position, he earned his first Emmy Award in 2006.
“My heart is broken,” Will & Grace vet Sean Hayes shared on Facebook. “Leslie Jordan was one of the funniest people I ever had the pleasure of working with. Everyone who ever met him, loved him. There will never be anyone like him. A unique talent with an enormous, caring heart. Leslie, you will be missed, my dear.”
Jordan’s many TV credit went on to incorporate roles in American Horror Story (showing in Seasons 3, 6 and 9), Fox’s The Cool Kids after which the community’s Call Me Kat, the place as an unique forged member he performed cafe baker Phil. The upcoming Nov. 10 episode was to introduce his character’s old flame curiosity, Jalen (visitor star John Griffin).
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