Introduction

The daughter of ‘Charlie’s Angels’ star Cheryl Ladd shares her mother’s stunning looks and acting talent, but has worked extremely hard to make it her own as she tries to emerge from the shadows of her very famous family.

Early life

Jordan Elisabeth Ladd was born on January 14, 1975 in Hollywood, California, USA making her a third generation actress in the Ladd family. Her mother Cheryl Ladd (nee Soppelmoor) was born on July 12, 1951, into an ordinary family who were completely unfamiliar with the life of fame that Cheryl would create and marry for herself, best known for her cast in the television series ABC (American Broadcasting Company). Charlie’s Angels as Kris Monroe.

Jordan’s father, on the other hand, was born into a family known for fame. Actor David Ladd was the son of actress and talent agent Sue Carole and actor Alan Ladd. Even her stepsister, Lindsay Russell, aspired to be an actress, so it came as no surprise that Jordan followed in her famous family’s footsteps.

Early schooling

In 1993, Ladd graduated from high school and then attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Despite her family’s fame, Jordan managed to live a relatively normal life, commenting, “When I was in high school, I went to clubs, which is obviously exciting. You want to drink before you can and get to places you can’t,” but said that once she started her acting career, she didn’t want to get involved in Hollywood nightlife.

Career

Jordan’s first appeared on camera when he was two years old, was cast in a few TV commercials, the first being in front of a Polaroid camera. While in school, she took a few acting jobs with her mother in “The Girl Who Came Between Them” in 1990 and “Broken Promises: Taking Emily Back” in 1993, but she didn’t start acting professionally until after she graduated high school. Her first acting job as an adult was in 1994 when she made a guest appearance on ‘Saved by the Bell: The New Class’, an NBC (National Broadcasting Company) series. It wasn’t until she appeared with Alyssa Milano in “Embrace of the Vampire” that she started to get noticed. Over the next six years, Ladd appeared in a few independent films such as “Inside Out,” “Taking the Plunge,” and “Stand-ins.”

Her first notable role was in 1999 when she starred opposite Drew Barrymore in “Never Been Kissed” as the popular high school girl who bullies an insecure student who attended her school. The film was a huge success, earning around $84.5 million, and Ladd was known worldwide.

In 2000 Ladd was seen in several films and played very different characters. First, she appeared in ‘The Special’, a superhero comedy where she played a neurotic superhero Nightbird. Later that year, Ladd played a movie star competing for an Academy Award in “Best Actress”, and also appeared in the critically acclaimed movie “Boys Life 3”. In the horror movie “Cabin Fever” she was the victim of a virus that ate her flesh – the movie started filming soon after 9/11, when she spoke about her experience she said, “We stopped, we got to work and then we shut ourselves off again.

We just hoped to complete the move and hope that people would really understand and appreciate it.” The film was made on a budget of $1.5 million but made $30.5 million and a huge profit margin at the box office.

This role was the beginning of Jordan appearing in a series of horror movies. In 2002 she was a sad, upset woman in “Darkened Room”, a Japanese-type horror film, in 2004 she played the suspect of a murder spree on an island vacation in “Club Dread”, and later that year a nurse in a mental institution in “Madhouse”.

In 2005, she had a short break from horror movies, when Ladd appeared in the comedy “Waiting…” opposite big Hollywood names like Justin Long, Ryan Reynolds and Anna Faris.

Quentin Tarantino’s movie “Death Proof” had her cast alongside her mother as a Texas party animal and murder victim. She also added a few more famous colleagues, who have worked with Tracie Thoms, Zoë Bell, Rosario Dawson and Kurt Russel.

Her next horror movie – “Grace” – was filmed in 2009 when she played a woman whose unborn baby dies in a car accident, and despite doctor’s advice, she carries the baby to term.

In 2010, after five years, Ladd was cast in the comedy “First Dates”, a movie that follows the dating life of a couple of single people, but soon went back to horror with “Murder on the 13^e Floor”, in which she plays a woman who takes revenge when she finds out her husband is cheating on her with their live-in babysitter.

2015 was the year Ladd appeared in an episode of “Scary Endings”, a YouTube horror series directed by John Fitzpatrick. The following year, Ladd and Fitzpatrick teamed up again on “Brentwood Strangler,” in which she plays a sad, lonely woman set up on a date with a serial killer. 2017 so far is the last time Ladd appeared on screen, in “Stage Fright” as an opera singer, and in “Blue Line” as a woman who escapes her abusive husband and goes on a revenge mission with her best friend.

Meeting famous husband

Jordan met Conor O’Neill in 1997 and they dated for four years before getting married in 2001, but the marriage only lasted four years – the couple divorced in 2005.

Conor O’Neill was born on August 15, 1966 and is an English actor known for his roles in musicals. His acting career started at The Everyman Theater and has been a very successful career ever since. In 1988, he appeared in “Blood Brothers”, for which he received the Laurence Oliver Award for Best Actor in a Musical. Five years later, he was nominated for another award for “Blood Brothers” by the Tony Awards for Best Actor in a Musical.

He appeared in a five-part TV drama, “Criminal Justice” in 2008, playing attorney Ralph Stone, and went on to play Joe Meek in both the 2008 movie and the 2005 play “Telstar: The Joe Meek Story.”

His next role was in 2011 at the Royal Exchange Theater in Manchester, playing Eddie Carbone, a longshoreman, in Arthur Miller’s “A View from the Bridge”, which won him the Best Actor award at the Manchester Theater Awards. Between 2013-2019, he acted in several series such as ‘The Bible’, ‘Happy Valley’, ‘Chernobyl’ and ‘Ordinary Lies’.

Other relationships

While Jordan’s childhood and family life get a lot of publicity, she has done well to keep her love life private and away from the prying eyes of the paparazzi. Being Hollywood, she has been romantically linked to a range of actors, but with the exception of her marriage, she has had no other confirmed relationships.

Net value

Since the start of her career, Jordan has appeared in more than 50 movies and television series all of which have helped create her net worth. Sources say she’s worth over $1 million, which isn’t bad considering it’s only going to increase in the coming years as her career hopefully continues.

Physical Characteristics

Jordan’s uncanny resemblance to her mother is largely due to her blue eyes and blonde hair, but she is known to dye her hair dark because while she loves her mother, she wants to distance herself from being an actress so she is seen as independent.

Ladd is 1.52 m tall, weighs about 52 kg and her vital statistics are 34-26-36.