Jo Jordan

On one of her movie shoots, while working with Stewart Granger, he asked, “Would you be interested in standing in for my wife who is arriving from England? The resemblance is striking!” Jo agreed, and thus began a 50-year friendship and professional collaboration with Jean Simmons. “She was like a sister to me,” Jo recalls.

Jo’s schooling consisted of private Catholic schools culminating in a scholarship to Immaculate Heart College. Though she followed Catholicism for years, she never fully embraced it. Instead, she has been in the spiritual mindset of Science of Mind for as long as she can remember.

She married and was blessed with two wonderful children, Cassandra (Cass) and Michael. Unfortunately, her husband was abusive. So this brave young lady ran out with her two children and a total of 45 cents in her pocket. What spunk!!! 

Her second marriage didn’t work out, but Jo is quick to add, “My past is part of my evolution, it’s helped make me what I am today."

Trying to make ends meet, she worked three jobs, one of which was at a nightclub. Alcohol was all around her, and her social life included lots of it.

Years later, she accompanied her teenage son to an AA meeting, and felt an immediate connection to the philosophy of personal responsibility. She made a promise to herself to stay faithful to the program for 25 years, during which Jo was a counselor to many of the women in AA. At the 25-year mark, she explains, “I opened the door and proudly walked out!”

During this time, in 1987, she went with a friend to the North Hollywood Church of Religious Science and shortly thereafter, she heard about a brand-new spiritual center, the NoHo Arts Center. She is so very grateful for the presence of Dr. James Mellon who teaches her “the fine points of life every day." 

In 2014, Jo went on an audition for a music video. “I positively flipped out when I learned it was for Jason Mraz!” she enthuses. As she sat in the room full of hopeful auditioners, she thought, “This part is mine.” And it was … as she was prominently featured in this beautiful short film featuring his song, “We Can Take the Long Way.”

And - just a few weeks ago, Jo auditioned for the part of “Old Lady” in a comedy horror movie. No surprise: she got the part! She’ll be playing “a sweet little old lady who leads a double life as an agent of evil!” (Can you imagine – Jo Jordan impersonating someone evil???)

Jo is the beloved "grandma" to four very fortunate youngsters and a dear friend to all of us.

Yes, truly joy and love do spring eternal in the heart of Jo Jordan as she continues to spread her smile and her special “magic" wherever she goes!