--- name: "Brian Jordan Alvarez" canonical: "https://film.one/person/brian-jordan-alvarez" fi1m_id: "brian-jordan-alvarez" imdb_id: "nm2755723" tmdb_id: 1071699 wikidata_id: "Q72126265" roles: ["Actor","Director"] born: "10 July 1987" reviewed_on_fi1m: 2 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-10-01T00:15:48.043203+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Brian Jordan Alvarez ## Identity Brian Jordan Alvarez - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/brian-jordan-alvarez - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** brian-jordan-alvarez - **IMDb ID:** nm2755723 - **TMDB ID:** 1071699 - **Wikidata ID:** Q72126265 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Jordan_Alvarez, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q72126265, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2755723/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1071699 Actor and director. Born 10 July 1987 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. ## Details - **Work:** Actor, Director - **Born:** 10 July 1987, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA - **Active:** 2024–present - **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 acting, 1 directing - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Jordan_Alvarez, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q72126265, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2755723/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1071699 ## Streaming the US now - **Disney+:** [*English Teacher*](https://film.one/tv/english-teacher.md) (73) - **Netflix:** [*Stop! That! Train!*](https://film.one/film/stop-that-train.md) (63) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Brian Jordan Alvarez > Brian Jordan Alvarez writes staffroom talk faster and funnier than most sitcoms have managed in years, and then gives himself the part least suited to it. The writer is the real thing; the actor in his own show is still finding his feet. Watch Evan Marquez in the staffroom of *English Teacher* (2024) and you can see two Brian Jordan Alvarezes at once. The lines are quick and land before you have quite caught them; the man saying them is bright, slightly performed, a little like someone doing bits in his own show. Alvarez created the series, wrote for it, directed episodes and took the lead, and the first three jobs come to him more easily than the fourth. He arrived the long way round. He made films and acted as a child, and built his early reputation on self-produced web series and sketches, above all *The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo* (2016), which he created, wrote, directed, produced, edited and starred in. Guest and recurring television parts followed through the 2010s, and the *Will & Grace* revival (2018), where he played Estefan Gloria, brought wider attention. *M3GAN* (2022), with Alvarez as Cole, put him in a hit. Then the producer Paul Simms, who had seen *Caleb Gallo*, came to him with the idea of a sitcom, and *English Teacher* was the result. What works is the writing. Alvarez picks up arguments most comedies avoid, what can be taught, who can kiss whom in a corridor, and gets a laugh out of them without picking a side or losing his nerve. He writes talk that overlaps and runs ahead of the audience, and Stephanie Koenig, his collaborator since the web series and a writer on the show as well, is the one who makes it sing: she and Alvarez have the rhythm of friends who have been finishing each other's sentences for years. We laughed out loud several times an episode, then found an hour later that we could not say what had happened in it. That is also the limit of the thing. Each episode deals with its argument and puts it down, nobody changes, and eight episodes pass without anyone losing anything. A second season of ten episodes followed, and the series ended after two. The other limit is Alvarez the actor. Evan is the hardest person in the staffroom to believe in, and the people around him, Koenig, Enrico Colantoni's weary principal, Sean Patton's Markie, are easier company. In Adam Shankman's drag-queen disaster spoof of 2026 he plays Cal, and the film gives him nothing we remembered an hour later. On present evidence he is a writer who happens to perform, rather than the other way round. The next thing he writes should have a smaller part for himself in it. Or a large one for Koenig, with Alvarez at the edge of the frame feeding her the lines. ## Biography Brian Jordan Alvarez is an American actor, comedian and filmmaker. Born in New York City in 1987, he studied acting at the University of Southern California. He created and stars as Evan Marquez in the FX comedy series *English Teacher* (2024–). His film roles include Cole in *M3GAN* (2022) and *M3GAN 2.0* (2025), and Derek in *80 for Brady* (2023). Television appearances encompass recurring parts as Estefan in *Will & Grace* (2018–2020) and Wesley in *Jane the Virgin* (2015–2016). He is also known for the web series *The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo* (2016). Alvarez plays Cal in the 2026 film *Stop! That! Train!*. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, rottentomatoes.com.* ## On Fi1m (2) ### Performed in (1) — the average rests on these - *Stop! That! Train!* (2026), Fi1m 63, as Cal — [page](https://film.one/film/stop-that-train.md) ### Directed (1) - *English Teacher* (2024), Fi1m 73, as Evan Marquez — [page](https://film.one/tv/english-teacher.md) ## Complete filmography (36) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Stop! That! Train!* (2026), as Cal — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/stop-that-train.md) - *M3GAN 2.0* (2025), as Cole - *StuGo* (2025), series, as Van (voice), Plant / Guard #2 (voice) - *English Teacher* (2024), series, as Evan Marquez · Writer, Executive Producer, Director, Creator — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/tv/english-teacher.md) - *Grimsburg* (2024), series, as (voice) - *Cypher* (2023), as Detective Brian Alvarez - *80 for Brady* (2023), as Derek - *M3GAN* (2022), as Cole - *A Spy Movie* (2021), as Jack Johnson / Evelina - *Pretending* (2021), as Man walking in park - *Social Distance* (2020), series, as Marco - *Webseries: The Movie* (2019), as Dave Stderdt · Director, Story, Characters, Writer - *Special* (2019), series, as Shay - *Are You Still Singing?* (2018), as Office Manager - *Grandmother's Gold* (2018), as Danny · Producer, Director, Writer, Music, Editor, Original Music Composer - *Stuck* (2018), as Raymond - *Matt and Dan* (2018), series, as Bartholemew - *The Happys* (2018), as Patrick - *How to Be a Slut in America* (2017), Director, Screenplay, Producer, Editor - *Will & Grace* (2017), series, as Estefan - *Everything Is Free* (2017), as Ivan · Director, Original Music Composer, Writer, Producer - *Get Shorty* (2017), series, as Jayson - *The Great Indoors* (2016), series, as Brian - *The Operator* (2016), as Allen (voice) - *The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo* (2016), series, as Caleb · Producer, Editor, Writer, Director, Creator - *RocketJump: The Show* (2015), series, as Sherlock Holmes - *Life in Pieces* (2015), series, as Jorge - *Grace and Frankie* (2015), series, as Willy - *Ryan Gosling Responds to the Haters* (2015), as Zac Efron · Director - *Jane the Virgin* (2014), series, as Wesley - *Go-Go Boy Interrupted* (2014), series, as Eliot - *A November* (2011), Director - *2 Broke Girls* (2011), series, as Tad - *Hot in Cleveland* (2010), series, as Ian - *Consent* (2010), as Seth - *Herpes Boy* (2009), as DragonSlayer1985 ## Gallery - ![Brian Jordan Alvarez](https://film.one/media/person/93446/gallery-1d0bdc7ff624.jpg) Brian Jordan Alvarez — Image via TMDB - ![Brian Jordan Alvarez](https://film.one/media/person/93446/gallery-730513021d68.jpg) Brian Jordan Alvarez — Image via TMDB - ![Brian Jordan Alvarez](https://film.one/media/person/93446/gallery-5538532dfc01.jpg) Brian Jordan Alvarez — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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