Will & Grace actor Leslie Jordan, 65, has become a breakout Instagram star during COVID-19 lockdown: ‘People discovered me as me’
He’s best known for his recurring role on the NBC sitcom Will & Grace.
But Leslie Jordan is also racking up a huge fan following on Instagram, too.
It began when he started posting to the social media platform with gusto as he hunkered down in his native Chattanooga, Tennessee, in March during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Leslie Jordan, 65, best known for his recurring role in the sitcom Will & Grace, has become a breakout Instagram star with 56 million followers after he started posting during lockdown
‘I posted a video on Instagram twice a day, for 80 days,’ the actor, 65, told People.
‘People knew me from my characters, but I’m amazed that, people discovered me as me. They loved me. And they came back.’
And though he is now back at his home in West Hollywood, he’s continued to keep his 5.6 million Instagram followers up to date with what’s happening in his life.
The diminutive actor told People he ‘posted a video on Instagram twice a day, for 80 days’ after returning home to Chattanooga, Tennessee, in March at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic
In 2001, he was cast in the recurring role of Beverley Leslie in Will & Grace and in 2006, he won the Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series (pictured with Megan Mulally)
Jordan arrived in Hollywood in 1982 and soon found work in a variety of TV shows including Murphy Brown, Night Court, Midnight Caller, and Hearts Afire.
By the 2000s, he was working steadily in primetime hits such as Ally McBeal, Boston Public and Boston Legal.
In 2001, he was cast as Beverley Leslie in Will & Grace and continued to appear regularly throughout its run until it ended after eight seasons in 2006.
He won the 2006 Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for the role and he returned for the sictom’s reboot from 2017 to 2020.
Jordan also appeared in the hit 2011 movie The Help and in several episodes of Ryan Murphy’s anthology series American Horror Story on FX.
He’s now back on TV in the new Fox sitcom Call Me Kat which stars Mayim Bialik and is executive produced by Jim Parsons.
And though he is now back at his home in West Hollywood, he’s continued to keep his 5.6 million Instagram followers up to date with what’s happening in his life
Jordan also appeared in the hit 2011 movie The Help and in several episodes of Ryan Murphy’s anthology series American Horror Story on FX
Jordan is currently back on TV in the new Fox sitcom Call Me Kat which stars Mayim Bialik and is executive produced by Jim Parsons