Brian Jordan Alvarez

Brian Jordan Alvarez (born July 9, 1987) is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. He is best known for creating and starring in the FX comedy series English Teacher. He is also known for his original songs, recurring roles as Estéfan in Will & Grace (2018–2020) and Wesley in Jane the Virgin (2015–2016), appearances in such films as M3GAN and 80 for Brady, and his self-produced films and series, most notably his 2016 web series The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brian Jordan Alvarez, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

M3GAN 2.0

After the underlying tech for M3GAN is stolen and misused by a powerful defense contractor to create a military-grade weapon known as Amelia, M3GAN's creator Gemma realizes that the only option is to resurrect M3GAN and give her a few upgrades, making her faster, stronger, and more lethal.

Release Date: 2025-06-25

Character: Cole

StuGo
6.5

StuGo

Six middle schoolers are tricked into attending a fake academic summer camp by a mad scientist. Now they’re stuck for three months on a wild tropical island with mind-reading manatees, giant fighting fungi and fashion-forward mutants.

Release Date: 2025-01-01

Character: Van (voice)

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 2

English Teacher
6.5

English Teacher

A high school teacher in Austin tries to balance the competing demands of the students and their parents in a world where the rules seem to change every day.

Release Date: 2024-09-02

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Character: Evan Marquez

Episode Count: 8

Vote Count: 33

Grimsburg
5.8

Grimsburg

Marvin Flute may be the greatest detective ever to catch a cannibal clown or correctly identify a mid-century modern armoire. But there’s one mystery he still can’t crack — his family. Now that he's back in Grimsburg, a town where everyone has a secret or three, Flute will follow every lead he’s got to redeem himself with the ex-wife he never stopped loving, even if it means hanging out with the son he never bothered to get to know.

Release Date: 2024-01-07

Character: (voice)

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 15

6.1

Cypher

Cypher is a fictional pseudo-music documentary about the artist Tierra Whack and the conspiracy theory that secret societies run the music world.

Release Date: 2023-11-24

Character: Detective Brian Alvarez

Vote Count: 6

6.3

80 for Brady

Four lifelong friends set out on an unforgettable journey to see their hero Tom Brady play in Super Bowl LI and witness one of the greatest comebacks in sports history, discovering that it's never too late to live life to the fullest. Inspired by a true story.

Release Date: 2023-02-03

Character: Derek

Vote Count: 165

7.1

M3GAN

A brilliant toy company roboticist uses artificial intelligence to develop M3GAN, a life-like doll programmed to emotionally bond with her newly orphaned niece. But when the doll's programming works too well, she becomes overprotective of her new friend with terrifying results.

Release Date: 2022-12-28

Character: Cole

Vote Count: 4140

Celebrity Jeopardy!
6.0

Celebrity Jeopardy!

Celebrity contestants compete for a chance to win money for a charity of their choice.

Release Date: 2022-09-25

Character: Self

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 6

8.0

A Spy Movie

After a failed mission in the Arctic, spies must team up to foil a deadly plot orchestrated by Evelina, an international assassin and head of the world's worst crime syndicate.

Release Date: 2021-12-11

Character: Jack Johnson / Evelina

Vote Count: 1

Pretending

A woman fights for a job

Release Date: 2021-09-25

Character: Man walking in park

7.3

Webseries: The Movie

In 2019, a group of four "filmmakers" set out to make a world-changing web series.

Release Date: 2019-06-11

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Character:

Vote Count: 3

Special
6.5

Special

A gay man with mild cerebral palsy decides to rewrite his identity as an accident victim and finally go after the life he wants.

Release Date: 2019-04-12

Character: Shay

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 61

6.0

Are You Still Singing?

Precarious party singer Joy navigates life and an unfilled prescription.

Release Date: 2018-10-11

Character: Office Manager

Vote Count: 3

6.0

Grandmother's Gold

A brother and sister embark on a journey to retrieve an inheritance from their grandmother in the wake of economic collapse and impending apocalypse.

Release Date: 2018-07-10

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Character: Danny

Vote Count: 6

5.5

Stuck

Darby finds herself in trouble with the law, and is sentenced to house arrest. Now she must serve thirty days in the home she used to share with her ex-boyfriend, that he now shares with his new fiancee.

Release Date: 2018-05-11

Character: Raymond

Vote Count: 4

Matt and Dan
6.0

Matt and Dan

Matt and Dan is a series of sketches and comedic short films. Every episode of "Matt and Dan" takes place in a different world - with new bizarre characters and (often dark) situations.

Release Date: 2018-03-21

Character: Bartholemew

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 1

5.7

The Happys

After catching her boyfriend in bed with a man, a sheltered Midwestern girl fights to find her place in a new city and discover where her true passions lie.

Release Date: 2018-03-16

Character: Patrick

Vote Count: 3

5.7

How to Be a Slut in America

A three-part feature by Brian Jordan Alvarez An honest portrayal of a young man figuring out how he wants to live out his romantic and sexual life.

Release Date: 2017-11-28

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Character:

Vote Count: 3

Will & Grace
7.4

Will & Grace

That’s right, honey! A decade after their unforgettable eight-season run, comedy’s most fabulous foursome is back.

Release Date: 2017-09-28

Character: Estefan

Episode Count: 12

Vote Count: 81

5.9

Everything Is Free

Ivan is a US painter residing in Colombia. His best friend, Christian, and younger brother, Cole, come to visit. Somewhere along the way, Ivan and Cole hit it off although Cole is not gay. Will older brother Christian be okay with that?

Release Date: 2017-09-03

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Character: Ivan

Vote Count: 18

Get Shorty
7.0

Get Shorty

Miles Daly works as muscle for a murderous crime ring in Nevada and attempts to change professions and become a movie producer, laundering money through a Hollywood film with the help of washed-up filmmaker Rick Moreweather. Based on Elmore Leonard’s 1990 New York Times bestselling novel.

Release Date: 2017-08-13

Character: Jayson

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 91

The Operator

A short film about a day in the life of a 911 operator.

Release Date: 2016-01-10

Character: Allen (voice)

The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo
7.9

The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo

A wondrous story of the complexities of relationships, friendly and romantic that blurs the lines of expected tropes through random comedy and realistic, interconnected interactions.

Release Date: 2016-01-04

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Character: Caleb

Episode Count: 5

Vote Count: 17

RocketJump: The Show
5.8

RocketJump: The Show

A behind-the-scenes look at the RocketJump production team (Video Game High School) as they create phenomenal action-comedy short films. Each half-hour episode of the series will chronicle the filmmaking behind RocketJump’s newest short and will include an exclusive look at the short film itself.

Release Date: 2015-12-02

Character: Sherlock Holmes

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 5

Life in Pieces
7.1

Life in Pieces

Comedy about one big happy family and their sometimes awkward, often hilarious and ultimately beautiful milestone moments as told by its various members. Of the three siblings, middle child Matt may have just found his true love, his co-worker, Colleen; his coddled youngest brother, Greg, and his wife, Jen, are overwhelmed by the birth of their first child; and the eldest, Heather, and her husband, Tim, are dreading their impending empty nest so much, they're considering having another baby. Their parents are Joan the family's adoring matriarch who would do anything for her kids - as long as she agrees with it - and John, the gregarious patriarch who's searching for ways to soften the blow of turning 70. As the family's lives unfold in four short stories each week, they try to savor these little pieces of time that flash by but stay with you forever, because these moments add up to what life's all about.

Release Date: 2015-09-21

Character: Jorge

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 126

Grace and Frankie
7.7

Grace and Frankie

Elegant, proper Grace and freewheeling, eccentric Frankie are a pair of frenemies whose lives are turned upside down - and permanently intertwined - when their husbands leave them for each other. Together, they must face starting over in their 70s in a 21st century world.

Release Date: 2015-05-08

Character: Willy

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 323

Ryan Gosling Responds to the Haters

When Ryan Gosling dyed his hair brown, the Internet became obsessed with talking about it. Articles online claimed he "risked his heartthrob status" with the color change. This is his response.

Release Date: 2015-04-19

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Character: Zac Efron

Jane the Virgin
7.9

Jane the Virgin

A comedy-drama following a chaste young woman who is accidentally impregnated via artificial insemination as she struggles to inform her devoutly religious family and make the right choices concerning the child. Based on the telenovela "Juana la virgen."

Release Date: 2014-10-13

Character: Wesley

Episode Count: 4

Vote Count: 857

Go-Go Boy Interrupted
4.5

Go-Go Boy Interrupted

Jimmy Fowlie (writer/actor) developed the concept for “Go-­Go Boy Interrupted” from his time as a go­-go dancer in LA. He was inspired to create his own sketch show at The Groundlings Theater, where he regularly performs.

Release Date: 2014-10-07

Character: Eliot

Episode Count: 21

Vote Count: 2

4.8

A November

A young woman commits suicide which leaves her boyfriend wondering what went wrong.

Release Date: 2011-11-11

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 3

2 Broke Girls
7.2

2 Broke Girls

Comedy about the unlikely friendship that develops between two very different young women who meet waitressing at a diner in trendy Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and form a bond over one day owning their own successful cupcake business. Only one thing stands in their way – they’re broke.

Release Date: 2011-09-19

Character: Tad

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 1565

Hot in Cleveland
7.4

Hot in Cleveland

Three fabulous, eccentric, LA best friends of a certain age have their lives changed forever when their plane unexpectedly lands in Cleveland and they soon rediscover themselves in this new "promised land."

Release Date: 2010-06-16

Character: Ian

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 116

5.2

Consent

A wealthy Manhattan family's inability to cope with the suicide of their eldest daughter sends them into a downward spiral of drugs, alcohol and sexual taboos that threatens to destroy them.

Release Date: 2010-02-19

Character: Seth

Vote Count: 11

Herpes Boy

A social outcast with a facial birthmark finds his world flipped upside down after he posts videos of his quirky life onto the Internet and becomes an unwilling cyber-celebrity.

Release Date: 2009-10-24

Character: DragonSlayer1985

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