Sharon Jordan
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Sharon Jordan is an American actress. One of her notable roles is Irene the Concierge on The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, a sitcom
on the Disney Channel
. Jordan also appeared as Irene on the first Disney crossover special with the three shows, The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, Hannah Montana
, and That's So Raven
. In addition, Jordan has co-starred on several independent films including I.D., Dead End Falls, Blind, and Some Sunny Day.
Jordan's recurring guest star roles on the Disney Channel are significant, and previous actors in her position have consequently been offered a bevy of big screen offers. Better known on the stage than the screen, her range as an actress has been displayed by a large array of roles, which include murderous characters in Agatha Christie
plays and romantic leads in Greek comedies.
For several years, Jordan performed onstage in Welcome Home, Soldier, one of the longest-running plays in Los Angeles, California. It was written by Tony Savant and directed by Robert Carnegie. Other notable actors who have performed in this production include James Franco
, Ashley Judd
, Jim Parrack
, and Brian Lally.
and raised in Riverside
. She is the youngest daughter of Lowell and RoseMary Jordan. Jordan attended Riverside Polytechnic High School
and graduated in the summer of 1977; her graduating class was 1978. Jordan resides in Los Angeles, California
, with her husband and their two daughters.
Situation comedy
A situation comedy, often shortened to sitcom, is a genre of comedy that features characters sharing the same common environment, such as a home or workplace, accompanied with jokes as part of the dialogue...
on the Disney Channel
Disney Channel
Disney Channel is an American basic cable and satellite television network, owned by the Disney-ABC Television Group division of The Walt Disney Company. It is under the direction of Disney-ABC Television Group President Anne Sweeney. The channel's headquarters is located on West Alameda Ave. in...
. Jordan also appeared as Irene on the first Disney crossover special with the three shows, The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, Hannah Montana
Hannah Montana
Hannah Montana is an American television series, which debuted on March 24, 2006 on the Disney Channel. The series focuses on a girl who lives a double life as an average teenage school girl named Miley Stewart by day and a famous pop singer named Hannah Montana by night, concealing her real...
, and That's So Raven
That's So Raven
That's So Raven is an American cable television teen sitcom/fantasy series. The show premiered on the Disney Channel on January 17, 2003, and ended on November 10, 2007. The show spawned Disney Channel's first spin-off series: Cory in the House...
. In addition, Jordan has co-starred on several independent films including I.D., Dead End Falls, Blind, and Some Sunny Day.
Jordan's recurring guest star roles on the Disney Channel are significant, and previous actors in her position have consequently been offered a bevy of big screen offers. Better known on the stage than the screen, her range as an actress has been displayed by a large array of roles, which include murderous characters in Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Christie DBE was a British crime writer of novels, short stories, and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but she is best remembered for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections , and her successful West End plays.According to...
plays and romantic leads in Greek comedies.
For several years, Jordan performed onstage in Welcome Home, Soldier, one of the longest-running plays in Los Angeles, California. It was written by Tony Savant and directed by Robert Carnegie. Other notable actors who have performed in this production include James Franco
James Franco
James Edward Franco is an American actor, film director, producer, screenwriter, author, painter, performance artist and instructor at New York University. He left college in order to pursue acting and started off his career by making guest appearances on television series in the 1990s...
, Ashley Judd
Ashley Judd
Ashley Judd is an American television and film actress, who has played lead roles in films including Ruby in Paradise, Kiss the Girls, Double Jeopardy, Where the Heart Is and High Crimes...
, Jim Parrack
Jim Parrack
Jim Parrack is an American actor. He has a starring role as Hoyt Fortenberry in HBO series True Blood, and appeared in the film Battle: Los Angeles, which was released March 2011....
, and Brian Lally.
Personal life
Jordan was born in FontanaFontana, California
Fontana is a city of 196,069 residents in San Bernardino County, California. Founded in 1913, it remained essentially rural until World War II, when entrepreneur Henry J. Kaiser built a large steel mill in the area...
and raised in Riverside
Riverside, California
Riverside is a city in Riverside County, California, United States, and the county seat of the eponymous county. Named for its location beside the Santa Ana River, it is the largest city in the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario metropolitan area of Southern California, 4th largest inland California...
. She is the youngest daughter of Lowell and RoseMary Jordan. Jordan attended Riverside Polytechnic High School
Riverside Polytechnic High School
Riverside Polytechnic High School is a four-year public high school in Riverside, California, United States, and part of the Riverside Unified School District...
and graduated in the summer of 1977; her graduating class was 1978. Jordan resides in Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
, with her husband and their two daughters.
Education
In addition to acting, Jordan is well versed in the academic world. She earned a Master's degree in Psychology from California State University, San Bernardino. Jordan specialized in neuropsychology, particularly working with children who suffered from brain traumas. Jordan presented several scientific papers while at Cal State San Bernardino. She also tried her pen at creative writing by going on to publish numerous poems in magazines and journals as well as a mystery and suspense novel, Time Shadows, which is the Book One in the trilogy The Shadow Chronicles. This book is listed at Amazon.com under Sharon T. Jordan. Currently Jordan is editing the second novel in The Shadow Chronicles series. Jordan was also named author of the month for Red & Proud.Filmography
| Film | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Film | Role | |
| 2006 | Some Sunny Day | Lucy | |
| 2006 | Southland Tales Southland Tales Southland Tales is a 2006 American-Franco-German science fiction dark comedy-drama film written and directed by Richard Kelly. The title refers to the Southland, a name used by locals to refer to Southern California and Greater Los Angeles... |
Uncredited, Secretary | |
| 2006 | Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is a 2006 adventure fantasy film and the second film of the Pirates of the Caribbean series, following Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl . It was directed by Gore Verbinski, written by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, and produced by... |
Uncredited, Port Royal Woman | |
| 2007 | Fracture Fracture A fracture is the separation of an object or material into two, or more, pieces under the action of stress.The word fracture is often applied to bones of living creatures , or to crystals or crystalline materials, such as gemstones or metal... |
Uncredited, Secretary | |
| 2009 | Id | Nurse | |
| 2009 | Dead End Falls | Nurse | |
| 2009 | Billy and the Hurricane | Ellen | |
| 2010 | Casting Shadows Casting Shadows Casting Shadows is the seventh and last studio album by the German synthpop duo Wolfsheim. Like all of their albums, Casting Shadows is bilingual, with two tracks in German, one instrumental , and the remainder in English.The disc debuted at #1 on the German album charts.-Track listing:#... |
Natalie | |
| 2011 | Shades of Gray | Paula Burton | |
| 2011 | Blind Blind (2011 film) -Plot:A female university student goes missing one day and is later discovered as a victim of a hit-and-run. Assuming the kidnapper and the driver are the same person, police begin investigating the case and find two witnesses who were at the scene: Soo-ah, a visually impaired woman who was once a... |
Mother | |
| 2011 | The Afterlife | Mother | |
| 2011 | Rift Rift In geology, a rift or chasm is a place where the Earth's crust and lithosphere are being pulled apart and is an example of extensional tectonics.... |
Nurse Debra | |
| 2011 | Busy Doing Nothing | Catherine | |
| Television | |||
| Year | Show | Role | |
| 2006–2007 | Sons & Daughters | Uncredited, Waitress 2 episodes | |
| 2006 | Huff Huff (TV series) Huff is an American television dramedy series produced by Sony Pictures Television for Showtime. The series was created by Bob Lowry and features Hank Azaria as Dr. Craig "Huff" Huffstodt, a psychiatrist whose life changes abruptly when a 15-year-old client commits suicide in his office... |
Uncredited, Phylliss Sams | |
| 2007 | Hannah Montana Hannah Montana Hannah Montana is an American television series, which debuted on March 24, 2006 on the Disney Channel. The series focuses on a girl who lives a double life as an average teenage school girl named Miley Stewart by day and a famous pop singer named Hannah Montana by night, concealing her real... |
Irene the Concierge | |
| 2005–2008 | The Suite Life of Zack & Cody | Irene the Concierge, recurring guest star | |
| 2008–2011 | I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant is a television program that airs on Discovery Fit & Health, TLC and a spanish version on Discovery en Español in the US... |
EMT, recurring guest star | |
| 2009–2010 | Oblivion: The Series | Twiggy Fan | |