a Swiss army knife of comedy from the Internet

A brilliant all-rounder, the American splashes his acting talent on the series he created, to watch on Disney +.

Dn Brian Jordan Alvarez’s bio, 2024 will appear as the year of consecration. Swiss army knife of comedy, as talented in front of as behind the camera and just as good at the script, the American artist has finally landed a spot suited to him for The English Teacher, a serious and joyful series, produced by the FX / Hulu platform. This son of a Spanish teacher, raised in deep Tennessee, has a post-adolescent figure but will soon celebrate his 38th birthday.

It was in Los Angeles that everything changed for him. There he met his best friend, the actress Stéphanie Koenig. They bet on becoming each other’s muse and take over the Web, flooding it with their talent. An unwavering friendship captured in The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo (2016), web series available on YouTube, sensitive and hilarious, about the daily life of a group of queer millennials. Concentrating on all the actor’s intimate obsessions, she reveals him. He will notably be cast in Will et Grace (2018) then at the cinema in M3GAN (2022). When he was offered the chance to create his first series, he ensured his success on TikTok: his hilarious dances were acclaimed by millions of fans. Once a digital actor, always digital.

Updated January 2. At the end of December 2024, the New York Magazine published on its Vulture site a long investigation in which Jon Ebeling, actor of Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo accuses the actor of “sexual assault” in 2016. He recounts an incident that amounts to rape. During a filming, Brian Jordan Alvarez allegedly performed fellatio on the complainant, instead of performing it. Brian Jordan Alvarez denies the facts and assures that Jon Ebeling would have given his consent before the scene. The latter says he filed a complaint in September and reported the facts to the television actors’ guild.