Jordan Raskopoulos
Jordan Raskopoulos was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia on January 25th, 1982 and is the Comedian. At the age of 42, Jordan Raskopoulos biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Jordan Nicola Bridget Raskopoulos (born 25 January 1982) is an Australian comedian, actor, and singer best known for her appearances on the Network Ten sketch comedy show The Ronnie Johns Half Hour and as the lead singer for comedy rock band The Axis of Awesome.
Peter Raskopoulos, a former footballer, and her brother, Steen Raskopoulos, a fellow comedian, is her father.
Personal life
Raskopoulos is a transgender lesbian. Upon being out on the streets as transgender in 2016, she retained her given name but added the middle names Nicola and Bridget. At a TEDx talk in 2017, she had attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and talked about her anxiety disorder. Raskopoulos plays roller derby and has played Warhammer 40,000 since she was 12 years old.
Career
Raskopoulos began assisting in Impro Australia's Theatresports in 2003, winning State and National Championships, as well as the Belvoir St Theatresports and the Cranston Cup. She formed The 3rd Degree, a university sketch comedy group that appeared at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2005. This group provided the basis for the Network Ten's Logie award-winning cult ensemble sketch comedy television show The Ronnie Johns Half Hour, which Raskopoulos performed and for which she wrote.
After the success of The Ronnie Johns Half Hour, Raskopoulos went on to appear in Stupid, Stupid Man, Stand Up Australia, Hole in the Wall, Good News Week and Thank You're Here, and Has provided voices for the ABC2 machinima series The Team. She appeared as a team captain for a season on the SBS sports show The Squiz. The Adventures of the Man with the Dominant Claw, her debut solo stage performance, took place in 2007. Raskopoulos' band, The Axis of Awesome, has appeared on Q&A, Good News Week, and The Footy Show.
Raskopoulos, the award-winning musical comedy group from 2006 to 2018, has received almost 64 million views on YouTube, and is one of the site's top-rated comedy videos. The group came to attention after the unveiling of their songs parodying the 2007 Australian federal election, receiving the Moosehead Award at the 2008 Melbourne International Comedy Festival for their performance The Axis of Awesome Comeback Spectacular. The Axis of Awesome have performed four albums and toured extensively in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia, with sold-out seasons at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe since 2009. After a brief hiatus, they shattered in 2018.
Raskopoulos wrote papers on transgender issues for Junkee before coming out as a trans woman under the pseudonym Nicola Fierce.
In the 2012 film Underground: The Julian Assange Story, Raskopoulos appeared alongside Rachel Griffiths, Anthony LaPaglia, and Alex Williams. In January 2013, Raskopoulos ordered fans of Something Awful to vote for her in the most coveted actor category of the 2013 Logie Awards, promising to encourage website visitors to write their acceptance speech. This sparked controversy, with news outlets reporting that Raskopoulos, despite having a high-profile international comedy career, planned to hack the Logies. "I'm conspiring to rig the Logies in the same way Guy Sebastian's fan forums are, or [in the same way] supporters of The Voice are demanding for votes for Joel Madden on Twitter." Raskopoulos appeared in a segment on Australian current affairs program Today Tonight, dressed in a fur collar and behaving in style, and said she wished to win a Logie for use as a doorstop.