Jordan Connor

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Jordan Connor
Born
Jordan Connor Yuen

(1991-09-17) 17 September 1991 (age 30)
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
OccupationActor
Height1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Spouse(s)
Jinjara Mitchell
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(m. 2021)​

Jordan Connor Yuen (born 17 September 1991) is a Canadian actor. He plays Sweet Pea in the television series Riverdale. He has also appeared in Looking for Alaska, Hospital Show and Nurses.

Early life[]

Connor was born in Calgary but moved to Vancouver when he was two years old.[1] He grew up in Delta, located in the Greater Vancouver area.[2] Connor's father was born in Canada and is mostly of Chinese descent, mixed with Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian, Samoan and more. His mother is from Croatia. According to a DNA test he did, he also comes from Eastern European, Spanish, Greek, Italian, German and Native American roots.[1] He has a brother, Brad, and a sister, Nicole.[3]

Connor said he knew he wanted to be an actor since he was around 10–11 years old. Connor attended Sands Secondary School where he did theatre and played football.[4] His first performance was in his school's production of Guys and Dolls.[1] After receiving a football scholarship to the University of British Columbia, Connor put acting aside to focus on football while he was studying architecture. During a game at the end of his second year, Connor broke his leg when he was tackled, ending his football career. Bedridden and unable to walk for three months, Connor became depressed.[2] After his leg healed, Connor found work as a stuntperson when the show Hellcats came to his football team seeking stuntpeople. Rediscovering his love for acting on the set, Connor continued doing stunt and background work for about a year.[2][5]

Eventually, Connor left university to pursue acting more seriously. He began acting training at the Railtown Actors Studio in Vancouver.[5] While training on and off for five years, Connor booked small parts and also worked in other jobs including bartending at a restaurant, working for a marketing company and selling mobile phones. He also owned a theatre company with friends.[2]

Career[]

Connor's breakthrough role was as Sweet Pea in the television series Riverdale. Connor had auditioned for other characters such as Joaquin and Reggie before reading for Sweet Pea.[2] First introduced in the show's second season (which premiered in October 2017), Connor was originally supposed to only have four episodes but his role was later expanded to a recurring role.[5][6][7]

In March 2019, Connor was cast as Kevin in Looking for Alaska, a miniseries adaptation of John Green's novel.[8] The series was released on Hulu on 18 October 2019.[9] In 2019, Connor appeared in Hospital Show, a 10-part comedy web series which premiered on YouTube on 10 October 2019.[10] In April 2020, Connor was one of the celebrity contestants in the first episode of RuPaul's Secret Celebrity Drag Race. Competing against Jermaine Fowler and Nico Tortorella, Connor won the episode, winning $30,000 for his charity of choice, Cystic Fibrosis Canada.[11]

In August 2020, it was announced that Connor had joined the cast of Canadian medical drama series Nurses for its second season.[12]

Personal life[]

Connor and his long-term partner, Jinjara Mitchell, got engaged on 22 September 2018.[3] They got married on 4 September 2021.[13]

Filmography[]

Films[]

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2013 Fighting Free Adam Short film
2013 Never Gonna Let You Short film
2013 Destroyer Hockey Player Short film
2014 What an Idiot Office Guy
2014 The Cover-Up Drunk Party Guy
2016 Plan B Louis Short film

Television[]

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2013 Supernatural Demon Sam Episode: "The Great Escapist"
2013 The Tomorrow People David Episode: "Limbo"
2014 Ivy Tower Ricky Brigola Episodes: "Birthday Paradox" and "Grinning Nurses"
2015 Backstrom Stan Park Episode: "Takes One to Know One"
2016 Lucifer Stoner Leroy Episode: "Lady Parts"
2016 No Tomorrow Stoner Kid / Skill-Fresh Episode: "No Rest for the Weary"
2017 You Me Her Caleb Episode: "Weird Janis and the White Trash Baby Vessel"
2017 The Magicians Champagne Boy Episode: "Cheat Day"
2017–2021 Riverdale Sweet Pea Recurring role (season 2-5) [7]
2019 Hospital Show Vince Main role [10]
2019 Looking for Alaska Kevin Main role [8]
2020 RuPaul's Secret Celebrity Drag Race Himself / Babykins La Roux Contestant [11]
2021 Nurses Matteo Main role [12][14]

Music videos[]

Year Title Artist Ref.
2019 "Vessel" Royal
2019 "Shoes" Mina Tobias

References[]

  1. ^ a b c Jung, Winnie (27 December 2019). "Jordan Connor on Riverdale, acting, and his Chinese-Canadian heritage". Cold Tea Collective. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d e Loewen, Emily (3 October 2018). "Jordan Connor: An Exclusive Look At The Actor Behind Riverdale's Sweet Pea". Terroir Magazine. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
  3. ^ a b Dupre, Elyse (27 September 2018). "Riverdale's Jordan Connor Is Engaged: See His Fiancée's Ring". E! Online. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
  4. ^ Ip, Stephanie (11 May 2018). "B.C.'s Riverdale stars Jordan Connor and Drew Ray Tanner spill on the Southside Serpents". Vancouver Sun. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
  5. ^ a b c Werner, Hedvig (15 April 2019). "Jordan Connor". Boys By Girls. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
  6. ^ Min, Lilian (2 October 2017). "Here's The First Look At The Character Who Might Split Up Bughead on "Riverdale"". Cosmopolitan. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
  7. ^ a b Stone, Sam (23 June 2019). "Sweet Pea: How the Riverdale Southside Serpent Became Part of the Gang". CBR. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
  8. ^ a b Petski, Denise (21 September 2019). "'Looking For Alaska': Hulu Limited Series Adds Six To Cast". Deadline. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
  9. ^ Sydney, Bucksbaum (16 October 2019). "How author John Green helped shape Hulu's 'Looking for Alaska' adaptation". EW.com. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
  10. ^ a b Atad, Corey (1 October 2019). "Vancouver-Shot Digital Series 'Hospital Show' Spoofs The Medical Drama". ET Canada. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
  11. ^ a b Kickham, Dylan (27 April 2020). "OMG, A 'Riverdale' Star Won 'RuPaul's Secret Celebrity Drag Race'". Elite Daily. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
  12. ^ a b "'Riverdale' Star Jordan Connor Talks Joining 'Nurses' Season 2". ET Canada. 18 August 2020. Archived from the original on 18 August 2020. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
  13. ^ Olson, Anna Price (5 September 2021). "Exclusive: Jordan Connor and Jinjara Mitchell Are Officially Married!". Brides. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  14. ^ Hank, Melissa (18 June 2021). "Nurses preps for return on Global, after over a year of waiting". canada.com. Retrieved 6 July 2021.

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