By Abb Jones
The Reelness

Emmy-award winning actor Leslie Jordan, best known for his roles in Will & Grace, American Horror Story, The Help and Sordid Lives, has died after crashing his car into the side of a building in Los Angeles Monday morning. It is suspected that he suffered from a medical emergency.

Jordan’s earliest success in entertainment was as Earl “Brother Boy” Ingram in the stage play Sordid Lives, which was adapted into a 2000 cult comedy. But it was in 2006 that he won the Emmy Award for guest actor in a comedy series on Will & Grace, for playing socialite Karen Walker’s sexually ambiguous, socialite frenemy Beverly Leslie.

Jordan’s other television shows credits include Ally McBeal, Ugly Betty, Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, Reba, Nash Bridges and three different characters on three seasons of Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story – the Coven, Roanoke and 1984 installments.

The 4’11” entertainer became a social media phenomenon in 2020, gaining millions of followers on Instagram due to hilarious videos he posted during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Leslie Jordan was 67.