Biography for
Cheyenne Jackson More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

12 July 1975, Newport, Washington, USA

Birth Name

Cheyenne David Jackson

Height

6' 3" (1.91 m)

Spouse

Monte Lapka

(3 September 2011 - present)

Trivia

Dubbed by the NY Post as Broadway's sexiest man.

Drama League Award nominations: "All Shook Up" (2005 - lead actor nominee), "Xanadu" (2008 - leading actor nominee).

Is openly gay. Named Entertainer of the Year by Out magazine in 2008. Since 1999, Jackson's romantic partner has been Monte Lapka, a physicist from Seattle.

Nominated for outstanding performance by a lead actor, for "All Shook Up", Outer Critics Circle Award. [2005]

Won Theatre World Award for outstanding Broadway debut in "All Shook Up". [2005]

Nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actor, for "Xanadu", Drama Desk. [2008]

In October 2010, Cheyenne Jackson told Out Magazine that he and Monte Lapka had filed for a domestic partnership in New York State during the summer of 2010. They had been romantic partners for over a decade before that. In September 2011, shortly after same-sex marriage was legalized in New York State, Jackson and Lapka got married in a ceremony on a Hamptons beach.

Nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actor, for "Finian's Rainbow", Drama Desk [2010].

Personal Quotes

[on which actress he most admires]: Jane Fonda is fiercely honest and open, and that's obvious from every performance she gives whether on film or the stage. She is a person who lives by her convictions and was willing to pay the price to pave the way for a whole generation of activists who came after her.

[on his role as amfAR ambassador]: There has to be action... It's not enough to just want change or wish change. I feel that if you have the means, if you are physically able to make difference in someone else's life you have a moral responsibility to do so.

On the set of United 93 (2006) we spent so many hours bleeding, screaming, crying, praying, and trying to imagine every possibility of what these people were going through. It was an environment of deep dark places. But, at the end of the day the we could wash off our makeup and come out of those places.

To be frank, I think I've missed out on big parts because I'm open. I've screen-tested on some really big projects, and you can't tell me that behind closed doors big execs aren't like, 'We have Dean Cain or this gay guy who played Elvis on Broadway.' I'm not that naive to think that that doesn't play into it.