Jeremy Jordan (born September 19, 1973) is an American singer and actor from Hammond, Indiana.
Jordan's real name is Don Henson. He was born September 19, 1973 and his mother gave custody of him to his father, who later married another woman and had four more children, all of whom he placed in Mooseheart Child City (an orphanage) after his wife abandoned them. Once they got to the orphanage, he and his brothers and sisters were separated and every year there, from the third to eleventh grade, he had a different set of houseparents, some of them very violent. Jordan wanted to get involved in movies and sign with a talent agency in Chicago, but was forbidden since the orphanage was in Mooseheart, (near North Aurora ), forty miles away. When he was seventeen, before Thanksgiving 1991, he moved in Chicago to a friend's parents' house. After a fight he was expelled from the house where he was living and ended up homeless, living in the subway until he met his manager Peter Schivarelli. He then signed a record deal with his record company.