Jordan
Reed
SAG-AFTRA
Chicago, IL
TV · Film · Theater
Jordan Reed found acting the way most people find the things that matter: by accident. A shy kid in high school, nudged onto a stage by his mother, he discovered he could come alive and express himself in ways he never had before. Baseball had been his first obsession, the sport he played with the kind of seriousness that shapes a person, and when an injury closed that door, a college fine arts requirement quietly handed him back the thing he had set aside. He threw himself into theater with the same athletic discipline, studying far beyond what any curriculum required.
At 22 he packed his bags for Los Angeles and planted roots at the Beverly Hills Playhouse, training in advanced scene study for eight years before moving to Howard Fine Studio, where he was introduced to Uta Hagen's approach and a new understanding of being fully in the moment. He continued to go deeper through Stanislavski, Meisner, and Alexander Technique. Screen credits followed on Amazon, Lifetime, and TLC alongside lead roles across seven films. Chicago called eventually, a city he moved to for love and stayed for its stages, looking to plant roots in one of the great theater communities in the country. When he is not on set you will find him somewhere with no signal, deep on a trail logging miles for his next ultra, carving a canyon on his motorcycle, or trackside at a Formula 1 race on the other side of the world.
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