Jeremy Jordan

Subsequently, he went to star in the original Broadway musicals Bonnie & Clyde (2011) as Clyde Barrow and Newsies (2012) as Jack Kelly, the latter of which he gained him nominations for a Tony Award and a Grammy Award. He played the titular character in the Broadway premiere of Floyd Collins in 2025, which earned him his second Tony Award nomination. He also starred in the Broadway casts of the musicals West Side Story (2009) as Tony, Waitress (2019) as Dr. Jim Pomatter, The Great Gatsby (2024) as Jay Gatsby, and Just in Time (2026) as Bobby Darin. He additionally appeared in the 2018 Broadway play American Son. In 2021 and 2023, he starred as Seymour Krelborn in the Off-Broadway revival of Little Shop of Horrors. On screen, he starred opposite Anna Kendrick in the 2014 musical film The Last Five Years and as Jimmy Collins in the NBC series Smash (2013). From 2015 to 2021, he played Winslow "Winn" Schott Jr. On the CBS/CW DC Comics-based superhero drama series Supergirl. From 2017 to 2020, he voiced Varian in the Disney Channel animated series Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure. Since 2024, he has voiced Lucifer Morningstar in the adult animated musical series Hazbin Hotel, for which he received an Annie Award nomination for Best Voice Acting - TV/Media.

Jeremy Jordan studied at Ithaca College, Mary Carroll High School and Ithaca College School of Humanities and Sciences. The recorded working language is English. Residence is recorded at New York City and Corpus Christi. Distinctions recorded are Theatre World Award.

• Name — Jeremy Jordan • Birth Name — Jeremy Michael Jordan • Born — 20 November 1984 • Birthplace — Corpus Christi, Texas, U.S. • Education — Ithaca College (BFA) • Occupation — Actor, singer • Years Active — 1996–present • Children — 1 • Known for — Newsies, The Great Gatsby, Floyd Collins

Jordan was born on November 20, 1984, in Corpus Christi, Texas, where he was raised. His parents divorced when he was young, and he lived in low-income housing, with his brother, Joey, sister, Jessa, and mother, Debbie (née Stone). His stepmother died in a car crash when he was in 7th grade. Jordan was injured in the same crash and started to pursue singing when he had to take a break from sports during his recovery. His father is of British and German descent, while his mother's descent is from Jewish emigrants from Eastern Europe. He is Jewish. He was an excellent student, graduating from Mary Carroll High School, where he was active in choir. He graduated from Ithaca College, in Ithaca, New York, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in musical theatre.

Jordan sang as a teenager and began acting in high school. In 2008, he starred as Alex in The Little Dog Laughed at Hartford Theatreworks, for which he received a Connecticut Critics Circle nomination. Later that year, he played Tom Sawyer in Big River at the Goodspeed Opera House in Connecticut. He appeared in the Broadway cast of Rock of Ages in 2009. Jordan was an alternate for the leading role of Tony in the 2009 Broadway revival of West Side Story. He also starred as Clyde Barrow in the 2010 pre-Broadway Sarasota, Florida, tryout of the new musical Bonnie & Clyde by Frank Wildhorn and Don Black. He also played the role of Jason Dean (J.D) at Joe’s Pub for the concert performance of Heathers: The Musical from September 13 to 14, 2010.

He reprised the role of Clyde when Bonnie & Clyde opened on Broadway on December 1, 2011. The show closed on December 30, 2011, after 36 performances. Jordan played Jack in the stage version of Newsies at the Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey in September and October 2011. Jordan reprised the lead role as Jack Kelly in Disney's Newsies on Broadway, with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Jack Feldman, and book by Harvey Fierstein. Newsies opened at the Nederlander Theatre on March 29, 2012. For the role, Jordan was nominated for the 2012 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical. He was nominated for a 2013 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theatre Album as a principal soloist on the Newsies original cast album. He appeared in the Stephen Sondheim and Wynton Marsalis staged concert A Bed and A Chair for Encores! at New York City Center from November 13 to 17, 2013, along with Norm Lewis and Bernadette Peters. In December 2013, Jordan appeared in Hit List, a concert presentation of the fictional musical created for the second season of Smash. He has performed at 54 Below in New York City many times as both a soloist and with his Smash costars. On February 16, 2015, Jordan starred as Leo Frank, opposite Laura Benanti as Lucille Frank, Joshua Henry as Jim Conley, and Ramin Karimloo as Tom Watson, in the concert production of Parade, also written by Jason Robert Brown, at the Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall. Jordan was featured as Light Yagami in the 2014/2015 English concept album of Death Note: The Musical. In June 2016, Jordan reprised his role as Tony in the Hollywood Bowl concerts of West Side Story, alongside Karen Olivo and George Akram. In October 2018, Jordan appeared in the play American Son, on Broadway alongside Kerry Washington and Steven Pasquale, a role he and the others reprised in the play's 2019 Netflix film adaptation.

In summer 2019, Jordan starred in the musical Waitress on Broadway as Dr. Pomatter alongside Shoshana Bean as Jenna. In April 2021, he gave an interview on The Theatre Podcast with Alan Seales, discussing his 54/Below cabaret show "Carry On". The show was released digitally in 2020, and went on to be acclaimed by both critics and audiences. In 2021, Jordan played Seymour in the reopening cast of the Off-Broadway revival production of Little Shop of Horrors after the COVID-19 pandemic. In January 2022, he reprised his role of Clyde in Bonnie & Clyde for a one night only concert in London's West End. He reprised his role in Little Shop of Horrors for an eight-week engagement in 2023 beginning on July 25 with his final performance on September 17. In July 2023, it was announced that Jordan and Eva Noblezada will star in a new musical adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. The show features music and lyrics by Jason Howland and Nathan Tysen and a book by Kait Kerrigan. The musical premiered at the Paper Mill Playhouse on October 12 of the same year, with a planned Broadway transfer that started previews on March 29, 2024, at the Broadway Theatre with an official opening night scheduled for April 25. Jordan left the cast in January 2025 with Ryan McCartan taking over the role, and from November 2025 to March 2026, he rejoined the cast. In November 2024, it was announced Jordan would star in the Broadway premiere of Floyd Collins in the title role at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre, which ran from March 2025 to June 2025. His performance received acclaim and earned him multiple award nominations, including his second Tony Award nomination. On April 21, 2026, he replaced Matthew Morrison as Bobby Darin in Just in Time on Broadway at the Circle in the Square Theatre.

Jordan made a 2008 television appearance, guest-starring on NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in the episode "Streetwise". He starred in the Warner Bros. film Joyful Noise, opposite Queen Latifah, Keke Palmer, and Dolly Parton. The film opened on January 13, 2012. It was announced in June 2012 that Jordan would join the cast of NBC's Smash for season two playing Jimmy. He filmed episodes for Smash while performing in Newsies until his final performance in the musical on September 4.

Jordan played Jamie Wellerstein in The Last Five Years, a film adaptation of the musical of the same name, written by Jason Robert Brown, costarring Anna Kendrick as Cathy Hiatt. The film was shot over three weeks in June 2013, and released in February 2015. In 2015, Jordan was cast as Winslow "Winn" Schott Jr. on Supergirl. The premiere on CBS was watched by 12.96 million viewers and received a full season order on November 30, 2015. Jordan received praise for his performance on the show, which would move to The CW after the first season. He stayed on as series regular for two subsequent seasons. In early 2016, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul approached Jordan to sing the part of Phillip Carlyle in a read through of The Greatest Showman, since Jordan recorded demos for the film in 2015. The day before the read-through, the star Hugh Jackman underwent nasal surgery and was ordered by his doctor not to sing. Pasek and Paul asked Jordan to also sing the leading part of PT Barnum while Jackman acted out the scenes, to which Jordan agreed (though Jackman did break in to sing “From Now On”). From 2017 to 2020, he voiced Varian in Disney's Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure. On June 20, 2019, it was reported that Jordan would be starring as Casablanca Records founder Neil Bogart in the upcoming biopic Spinning Gold. On July 15, 2020, it was announced that Jordan would star in the upcoming Hallmark Channel film Holly and Ivy, alongside Janel Parrish and Marisol Nichols. The film was released on November 1, 2020, on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. On January 3, 2021, it was announced that Jordan would star in another Hallmark Channel film Mix Up in the Mediterranean, alongside Jessica Lowndes. The film was released on February 20, 2021. Jordan announced via social media that he would be starting a band, Age of Madness, which released their first album in spring 2022.

In 2023, in the wake of the October 7 attacks, Jordan collaborated with other artists in support of Israeli hostages with a rendition of "Bring Him Home" from Les Misérables. Since 2024, Jordan has voiced Lucifer Morningstar, King of Hell, in the SpindleHorse Toons/A24 adult animated musical comedy-drama series Hazbin Hotel, airing on Amazon Prime Video, alongside Erika Henningsen as Lucifer's daughter Charlie. He reprised the role in Hazbin Hotel on Broadway for a one-night only concert at the Majestic Theatre on October 20, 2025. He also voices Steve Harrington in the series Stranger Things: Tales from '85 (2026).

Jordan married Broadway actress and singer Ashley Spencer at the Basilica of Saint John the Baptist in Canton, Ohio, on September 8, 2012. They have a daughter, born in 2019.

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 2008 — Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Doug Walshen — Episode: "Streetwise" • 2011 — Submissions Only — Levi Murney — Episode: "The Miller/Hennigan Act" • 2013 — Smash — Jimmy Collins — Lead role (season 2) • Elementary — Joey Castoro — Episode: "Solve for X" • 2015 — Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Skye Adderson — Episode: "Agent Provocateur" • 2015–2018, 2020–2021 — Supergirl — Winslow "Winn" Schott, Jr. — Series regular (seasons 1–3) Guest (seasons 5 and 6) • 2017–2020 — Tangled: The Series — Varian (voice) — Recurring role • 2017 — The Flash — Grady, General Winslow "Winn" Schott, Jr. (Earth-X) — 2 episodes • 2020 — A Killer Party — Himself — Web series • Holly and Ivy — Adam Yeager — Television film • 2021 — Mix Up in the Mediterranean — Josh and Julian Northrup — Television film • 2022 — Hanukkah on Rye — Jacob — Television film • 2023 — SuperKitties — Otto (singing voice) — Episode: "Roboctopus" • 2024–present — Hazbin Hotel — Lucifer Morningstar (voice) — 8 episodes • 2024 — Megamind Rules! — Bennett Schlurg-Peterman (voice) — 3 episodes • 2026 — Stranger Things: Tales from '85 — Steve Harrington (voice) — Series regular • Sofia the First: Royal Magic — Sage (voice) — Guest role

Source: • Year — Title — Role — Venue — Notes • 2008 — The Little Dog Laughed — Alex — Hartford TheatreWorks — Regional • 2008 — Big River — Tom Sawyer — Goodspeed Musicals September 26 - November 30, 2008 — Regional • 2009 — Rock of Ages — Swing u/s Drew u/s Franz u/s Joey Primo u/s Stacee Jaxx — Brooks Atkinson Theatre March 17, 2009 – December 13, 2009 — Broadway debut; original cast • West Side Story — Tony (alternate) — Palace Theatre December 16, 2009 – October 10, 2010 — Broadway replacement • 2010 — Heathers: The Musical — Jason “J.D.” Dean — Joe's Pub September 13 - 14, 2010 — Workshop • Bonnie & Clyde — Clyde Barrow — The Mertz Theatre November 12 – December 19, 2010 — Regional, pre-Broadway • 2011 — Newsies — Jack Kelly — Paper Mill Playhouse September 15 – October 16, 2011 • Bonnie & Clyde — Clyde Barrow — Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre November 4, 2011 – December 30, 2011 — Original Broadway cast • 2012 — Newsies — Jack Kelly — Nederlander Theatre March 15, 2012 – September 4, 2012 • 2013 — A Bed and a Chair: A New York Love Affair — Male 2 — New York City Center November 13 - 17, 2013 — Off-Broadway • 2014 — Children of Eden — Cain / Japheth — Kennedy Center May 19, 2014 — Concert • Finding Neverland — J. M. Barrie — A.R.T Theatre July 23, 2014 – September 28, 2014 — Regional, pre-Broadway • Death Note: The Musical — Light — - — English concept album • 2015 — Parade — Leo Frank — Lincoln Center February 16, 2015 — Concert • Bombshell — Performer — The Actors Fund • 2016 — West Side Story — Tony — Hollywood Bowl July 14–19, 2016 — Staged Concert • Newsies — Jack Kelly — Pantages Theatre September 11, 2016 — Filmed • 2018 — Tarrytown — Brom — MCC Theater — Reading • American Son — Paul Larkin — Booth Theatre November 4, 2018 – January 27, 2019 — Original Broadway cast • 2019 — Waitress — Dr. Jim Pomatter — Brooks Atkinson Theatre April 8 – June 2, 2019 — Broadway replacement • 2021 — Little Shop of Horrors — Seymour Krelborn — Westside Theatre September 21, 2021 – January 9, 2022 — Off-Broadway replacement • 2022 — Bonnie & Clyde — Clyde Barrow — Theatre Royal, Drury Lane January 17–18, 2022 — West End debut • 2023 — Little Shop of Horrors — Seymour Krelborn — Westside Theatre July 25 – September 17, 2023 — Off-Broadway replacement • The Great Gatsby — Jay Gatsby — Paper Mill Playhouse October 12 – November 12, 2023 — Pre-Broadway Tryout • 2024 — Broadway Theatre March 29, 2024 – January 19, 2025 — Original Broadway cast • 2025 — Floyd Collins — Floyd Collins — Vivian Beaumont Theatre March 27 – June 22, 2025 • The Great Gatsby — Jay Gatsby — Broadway Theatre November 10, 2025 – March 7, 2026 — Broadway replacement • 2026 — Just In Time — Bobby Darin — Circle in the Square Theatre April 21 – September 6, 2026

Jeremy Jordan is recorded at birth as Jeremy Michael Jordan. Recorded as having studied at Ithaca College, Mary Carroll High School and Ithaca College School of Humanities and Sciences. Identity and origins. His recorded languages were English and American English. He married Ashley Spencer.