About

He had his first starring film role in Spy Kids: All the Time in the World. In 2011, he was nominated for a Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a Feature Film. He went on to star in the ABC series Speechless.

Before Fame

He made his first television appearance at age 8 on a 2008 episode of According to Jim. In 2009, he appeared as Corey in the film The Middle.

Trivia

He played Eddie Munster in the 2012 TV movie Mockingbird Lane.

Family Life

His family moved from Oklahoma City to L.A. to help promote his acting career. He has three siblings named Lane, Georgia, and Lilly.

Associated With

He played a young version of Steve Carrell's title character in The Incredible Burt Wonderstone.

Cheyenne Jackson (born July 12, 1975) is an American actor and singer.[2] He started in regional theater when he moved to Seattle, and after moving to New York City, made his 2002 Broadway theatre debut understudying both male leads in the Tony Award-winning musical Thoroughly Modern Millie. In 2005, he originated his first Broadway leading role in All Shook Up earning him a Theatre World Award for "Outstanding Broadway Debut".

In films, Jackson portrayed 9/11 victim and hero Mark Bingham in the 2006 Academy Award nominated United 93 which earned him the Boston Society of Film Critics 2006 award for "Best Ensemble Cast". He has also appeared in the films Curiosity and Hysteria. On television, he is a recurring series regular on NBC's 30 Rock, portraying Jack/Danny Baker. He also guest starred on several series including; Lipstick Jungle, Life on Mars, and Ugly Betty. In 2008, Jackson was cast as the series lead Sebastian Kinglare, and filmed the Lifetime Television pilot Family Practice opposite Anne Archer and Beau Bridges.[3] The series was not picked up for distribution.[4]

Jackson has starred in several notable webisode series and in 2009 starred in a sold out one man show, "Back to the Start."[4] In 2008, he was named Out magazine's Entertainer of the year. He is an international ambassador for amfAR (The Foundation for AIDS Research)[5] and a national ambassador and spokesperson for The Hetrick-Martin Institute.[6]

Early life

Jackson was born in Idaho and was named by his father after the 1950s Western series.[4] The third of four children, he was raised along a "teeny mill town" of about 1,200 people in a rural area on the Washington-Idaho border.[4] His father is a Native American and a Vietnam veteran.

His mom taught Jackson, his sister and two brothers to sing and regularly played music from Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Elvis. His parents were evangelical born-again Christians and this caused tension when he came out to them as gay at 19 after he had moved to Spokane, Washington.[4] His brother is a pastor who preached on the 700 Club.[4] Eventually the family accepted his sexuality.[4]

Later he moved to Seattle, where he worked as an ad executive at a magazine and did some theater on the side earning his Equity card.[4] "As soon as I found out what theater was, what Broadway was, I thought, Oh, that's what I'll do with my life. Just a matter of getting all the pieces in place."[4] Inspired to rethink his career after both a death in his family and the 9-11 attacks he moved to New York.

Personal life

He is openly gay and an LGBT rights supporter, as well as an ambassador for amfAR (The Foundation for AIDS Research)[35] and the national ambassador for The Hetrick-Martin Institute.[36][37] Jackson's partner, Monte Lapka, is a physicist; they have been together since 2000.[1][38][39]

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Born Amanda Lee Rogers in Horsham, Victoria, Australia. she is the daughter of Margaret, a medical receptionist, and Barry Rogers.[3] She was raised in Grovedale, a suburb of Geelong in Victoria, Australia. As a child, she modeled for print and TV commercials. She adopted the name Portia de Rossi at the age of 15, stating in 2005 that she had intended to reinvent herself, using the given name of Portia, a character from William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, and an Italian last name.[4]

Her first significant role was playing a young and impressionable model in the Australian 1994 film Sirens. Soon afterwards she moved to Los Angeles and had guest roles on several TV shows, and a permanent role in Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher, before landing a role in the film Scream 2. During this time in the United States, de Rossi worked diligently to replace her native Australian accent with her current General American one.[5]

She attracted international attention when she joined the main cast of the Ally McBeal TV series in 1998 playing lawyer Nelle Porter. She remained with the show until its end in 2002. In 2001, she starred in Who Is Cletis Tout? with Christian Slater.

From 2003–2006, de Rossi starred as Lindsay Bluth Fünke on Fox Television's critically acclaimed, Emmy-winning series Arrested Development.

She also portrayed John F. Kennedy, Jr.'s wife, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, in the made for TV movie America's Prince: The John F. Kennedy Jr. Story in 2003. In 2005 she portrayed a fortune-teller named Zela in the Wes Craven thriller Cursed. From 2007–2008, de Rossi appeared in Nip/Tuck's fifth season as Julia McNamara's girlfriend Olivia Lord.

In 2009 and 2010, de Rossi played the high-strung, oversexual, and controlling Veronica Palmer on the ABC show Better Off Ted. De Rossi will reprise her role as Lindsay Bluth Fünke in 2012's film adaptation of Arrested Development.[6]

She ranked 69th in Stuff's 100 Sexiest Women, 31 in Femme Fatales' Sexiest Women of 2003 list, 24 in Maxim's 100 Sexiest Women List in 2004, and in late 2006, the magazine Blender listed her as one of the hottest women of film and TV.[7] In May 2007, she was featured as one of 100 Most Beautiful in a People magazine special edition. TV Guide included her and Ellen DeGeneres in their Power A-List couples in 2007.

Portia de Rossi is openly gay.[4] She was married to documentary film-maker Mel Metcalfe from 1996 to 1999, initially part of a plan to get a green card, but she did not go through with it. She said that "it just obviously wasn't right for me".[4] In a 2010 interview on Good Morning America she explained that as a young actress she was fearful of being exposed as gay.[8]

From 2000 to 2004, de Rossi dated singer Francesca Gregorini, daughter of actress Barbara Bach and stepdaughter of Ringo Starr. She said most of her family and Ally McBeal castmates did not know she was a lesbian until tabloid pictures of the couple were published.[4] She declined to publicly discuss the relationship or her sexual orientation at the time.

De Rossi and Gregorini broke up in late 2004 as de Rossi began dating talk-show host/comedian Ellen DeGeneres, whom she met backstage at an awards show.[9] In 2005, she opened up publicly about her sexual orientation in interviews with Details and The Advocate. She became engaged when DeGeneres proposed with a 3-carat diamond ring.[10] They were married at their Beverly Hills home on August 16, 2008, witnessed by their mothers and 17 other guests.[10] On August 6, 2010, Portia filed a petition to legally change her name to Portia Lee James DeGeneres.[11] The petition was granted on 23 September 2010.[12] She became a US citizen in September 2011.[13]

De Rossi struggled with the eating disorder anorexia nervosa for four years while filming Ally McBeal.[9][14]

In 2010 de Rossi published the autobiography Unbearable Lightness which talks about the turmoil that she has experienced in her life, including suffering from anorexia nervosa and being misdiagnosed with lupus.[15][16][17] To promote the book, she appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Ellen DeGeneres Show.[16]

De Rossi supports a variety of charitable organizations, including Locks of Love, a group that provides human hair wigs (made from donated ponytails) either free of charge or on a sliding scale based on their own guidelines [18][19][20][21] for children with alopecia and other medical conditions that cause hair loss.[22] She has also supported fundraising efforts for FXB International,[23] an African AIDS relief organisation, and The Art of Elysium,[24] an art foundation for terminally ill children. An avid animal lover, de Rossi also supports Alley Cat Allies,[25] an organisation dedicated to protecting and improving the lives of cats.[26]