Leslie Jordan is an Emmy Award-winning American actor hailing from Chattanooga, Tennessee. At a height of just 4 ft 11 in (1.50 m), Jordan has become an instantly recognizable face in film and television.  He is most well known for his television work — including guest appearances on Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Star Trek: Voyager, Reba, Boston Public, and Boston Legal.  Jordan is best known for his role of Karen's pretentious rival Beverley Leslie on the hit series Will & Grace. For that role he received an Emmy Award for Best Guest Actor in a Comedy Series (2006).

Jordan, who is openly gay, is an accomplished stage actor and playwright. In one of his best-known performances onstage, he played Brother Boy in Sordid Lives, a role he took to the big screen in the popular cult film of the same name. Jordan has stated that he will be reprising his role as "Brother Boy" in the upcoming 2008 Del Shores' TV series Sordid Lives: The Series (LOGO/MTV) based on the film with Emmy nominated actress Delta Burke. He wrote and starred in the autobiographical play Lost in the Pershing Point

Hotel, which was also made into a motion picture. He recently toured the country performing his one-man stage comedy, Like a Dog on Linoleum, to rave reviews. In this show, he tells stories of the high and low points of his life, from his father's death in a plane crash when he was just 11 years old, to his battles with substance abuse and his weakness for street hustlers.