14 Facts About Jordan Gray

Jordan Redford Gossamer Gray was born on 11 January 1989 and is an English comedian and singer from Essex.

Jordan Gray's father was a director of a steel factory who performed as an Elvis impersonator, while her mother worked as a hairdresser, a bouncer and a pub landlady.

Jordan Gray told Unicorn Zine that her second middle name, Gossamer, was added due to the United Kingdom not having a process to change honorific from Mr to Miss; she had considered changing it to Olivia before realising that Jordan was gender neutral and deciding it was not worth wasting her money.

Jordan Gray performed "Corridors" on Britain's Got Talent and progressed to the next round, but ultimately did not progress further.

Jordan Gray appeared on Sing Date around the same time.

Jordan Gray took a year out in Scandinavia for most of 2014, at which point she was midway through a residency at Las Iguanas in Lakeside; that year, she released the novel Dog Bless the Day, which the blurb describes as "one starving cat's chance encounter with a layabout lizard and silver-tongued macaw [which] sets in motion a chain of insupposable events", and in 2015, she released the novel Snap, about a student who needs to master a camera to administer justice.

Jordan Gray appeared on the fifth series of The Voice UK in 2016, in so doing becoming its first transgender contestant; she joined Paloma Faith's team, after JJ Soulx withdrew for personal reasons, and ultimately reached the semi-finals.

Jordan Gray decided to become a comedian after performing a skit between performances on one of the live shows on The Voice UK, and finding it more fun than singing; every three days for three months afterwards, she sat in the front row at Top Secret Comedy Club in London and made notes about structure and storytelling.

Jordan Gray performed her debut show People Change at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2018 and won the Best New Comedian award at the Panic Awards in 2019.

Jordan Gray wrote and starred in a pilot for a sitcom, titled Tall Dark Friend, which led to the commissioning of Transaction.

Jordan Gray told The List in August 2022 that ITV had ordered a series of full length episodes, which, if it was made, would be the first British television sitcom to feature a transgender lead actor since Boy Meets Girl, which ended in 2016.

Jordan Gray is married to Heli Siva-Jordan Gray, a croupier from the Czech Republic, whom she met online in 2015, and who emigrated specifically for her.

Jordan Gray said in 2016 that she would be unlikely to undergo gender reassignment surgery, on the grounds that she could not see it affecting her life.

Jordan Gray has variously claimed to be completely blind in her left eye and to have poor eyesight in it.