Leslie Jordan

Acting

Leslie Jordan

Born 1955-04-29 · Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Leslie Allen Jordan was an American actor, comedian, singer, and writer. Known for his short stature and playful energy, he became a beloved character actor in the 1980s. He played roles like Beverly Leslie on Will & Grace, Lonnie Garr on Hearts Afire, and Sid on The Cool Kids. He also appeared in the American Horror Story franchise and guest judged on RuPaul's Drag Race. Jordan won an Emmy in 2006.

Acting credits

The Help poster
8.2

Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.

The Help

2011

Home on the Range poster
6.1

When a greedy outlaw schemes to take possession of the "Patch Of Heaven" dairy farm, three determined cows, a karate-kicking stallion and a colorful corral of critters join forces to save their home. The stakes are sky-high as this unlikely animal alliance risk their hides and match wits with a mysterious band of bad guys.

Home on the Range

2004

Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday poster
4.6

Jason Voorhees is tracked down and blown to bits by a special FBI task force, reborn with the bone-chilling ability to assume the identity of anyone he touches.

Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday

1993

The United States vs. Billie Holiday poster
6.5

Billie Holiday spent much of her career being adored by fans. In the 1940s, the government targeted Holiday in a growing effort to racialize the war on drugs, ultimately aiming to stop her from singing her controversial ballad, "Strange Fruit."

The United States vs. Billie Holiday

2021

Hero poster
6.3

Bernie Laplante is having a rough time. He's divorced, his ex-wife hates him and has custody of their son, the cops are setting a trap for him, then to top it all, he loses a shoe whilst rescuing passengers of a crashed jet. Being a thief who is down on his luck, Bernie takes advantage of the crash, but then someone else claims credit for the rescue.

Hero

1992

The Last Sharknado: It's About Time poster
4.4

Our hero Fin has battled sharks all over the globe, but in this last installment he will tackle the final shark-tier - time travel.

The Last Sharknado: It's About Time

2018

Madhouse poster
5.7

A young psychiatric intern unearths secrets about the mental health facility in which he works.

Madhouse

2004

Moving poster
5.5

Arlo accepts what seems to him to be a dream promotion to Idaho. He soon discovers, however, that moving has its own share of problems.

Moving

1988

Goodbye Lover poster
5.6

Police investigate when a man having an affair with his brother's wife disappears suddenly.

Goodbye Lover

1999

Ski Patrol poster
4.8

Pops isn't worried about the renewal of the lease for his ski lodge - the safety record is unblemished in spite of the crew of misfits who make up his ski patrol. But a scheming land developer has other plans and the ski patrol is thrust into a skiing showdown in order to save Pops' mountain.

Ski Patrol

1990

Sissy Frenchfry poster
5.3

The annual Student Body President election at wildly eclectic and diverse West Beach High pits the quirky, much-beloved incumbent Sissy Frenchfry against handsome, charismatic -- and socially intolerant -- transfer student Bodey McDodey, who enacts a devious plan to restore the "status quo."

Sissy Frenchfry

2006

Lucky Dog poster
3.5

Travis is a divorced architect and devoted father of two who has a hard time handling his unruly dog, Lucky, especially when he goes on dates, which Lucky has a habit of sabotaging. Travis starts falling for a fellow architect, Amber, whose dog Cassie provides a convenient love interest for Lucky. Through Travis and Amber have a mutual attraction, they find themselves at odds when their architectural firm is hired by the wealthy Preston Spencer to design a destination retreat on Catalina Island, and Spencer wants all the architects to compete for the design he'll choose. Unfortunately for Travis, the bigger problem is that Spencer has set his sights on Amber and she seems to be falling for him in return ...

Lucky Dog

2014

Love Ranch poster
5.4

Story of a couple that starts the first legal brothel in Nevada and a boxer they own a piece of.

Love Ranch

2010

Frankenstein General Hospital poster
4.5

A mad doctor puts together a new body by using body parts he steals from a mortuary at the hospital where he works.

Frankenstein General Hospital

1988

Gaze poster
1.0

An exploration of twenty artists and their bodies of work.

Gaze

2010

Chasing Christmas poster
4.6

Jack Cameron is a single dad that decides not to observe Christmas because his wife left him around that time. The ghosts of Christmas past and present try and get Jack to relent, but they screw up their jobs and send themselves on a wild ride through time showing up at various times in Jack's past. As they try and rectify the timeline and get back to the real present, some things are not what they used to be.

Chasing Christmas

2005

Sordid Lives poster
6.5

As three generations of a family in a small Texas town gather for a funeral, we learn the hilarious, sad, trashy truth of their sordid lives.

Sordid Lives

2000

The Road Raiders poster
5.3

Filled with anachronisms and rip offs from "The 'A' Team" and "The Dirty Dozen" - It's 1942 in Manila and an American saloon owner organizes a misfit group to fight in WWII.

The Road Raiders

1989

Eat Your Heart Out poster
4.5

A womanizer gets his own cooking show and, ironically, the females who call in end up airing their relationship problems to him.

Eat Your Heart Out

1997

Demonic Toys: Personal Demons poster
3.5

A group of people on a world wide search for oddities find themselves trapped in a nine hundred year old Italian castle when they accident unleash the Demonic Toys.

Demonic Toys: Personal Demons

2010

A Very Sordid Wedding poster
5.3

Del Shores' follow-up to "Sordid Lives" revisits Winters, Texas for a showdown between the gradually liberalizing locals and the new fundamentalist preacher in the wake of the Supreme Court's marriage equality decision.

A Very Sordid Wedding

2017

Body Electric poster
NR

With 25% of all body dysmorphic disorders stemming from the LGBTQ+ community, and 42% of all males with eating disorders identifying as gay men, filmmaker Nick Demos examines body image in the LGBTQ+ community, media obsession with youth culture, and his own journey to self-acceptance in his middle age.

Body Electric

2023

The Gristle poster
6.3

Multiculturalism reaches the depths of the criminal underworld as eight diverse con men must learn to work together to pull off a heist that's anything but ordinary. The target of this melting pot of thieves is a kidney inside a patient who's inside a hospital. This darkly comic caper stars Orson Bean and Michael Dorn.

The Gristle

2004

Eating Out: All You Can Eat poster
5.8

Tiffani attempts to help her geeky but very cute friend Casey find true love - or at least a sexy hunk. Taken under Tiffani’s wing, Casey pretends to be Ryan, Tiffani's hot, straight, stripper ex-boyfriend, in order to seduce the smoldering Zack online, which works, until the real Ryan shows up!

Eating Out: All You Can Eat

2009

Behind the camera