Jai Rodriguez
Jai Rodriguez is best known as the culture guide on the Bravo network’s Emmy-winning American reality television program Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. He has also co-authored a book with the other Queer Eye hosts. He is currently starring as Geoffrey, in the ABC sitcom Malibu Country.
As a stage actor and singer, he is best known for his roles in the Toronto cast of Broadway stage musical Rent, as Angel, and the Off-Broadway musical Zanna, Don’t!, as Zanna. He has also acted in several plays, including Spinning Into Butter at the Lincoln Center. In 2005, he created and performed his own one night stage show, “Jai Rodriguez: xPosed.” xPosed told the story of Rodriguez’s life and struggle to come out to his religious family, and of his career on stage and in Queer Eye. His Queer Eye co-stars Ted Allen and Carson Kressley appeared as themselves.
In November 1993, Rodriguez appeared in one episode of the daytime drama All My Children. In August 2005, he made a two-day guest appearance on the ABC daytime drama One Life to Live.
In November 2005, while Queer Eye was on filming hiatus, he joined the cast of The Producers on Broadway for three months, playing the role of Carmen Ghia. He played a different role, that of Sabu, in the 2005 Producers movie.
In August 2007, Rodriguez filmed a guest starring role in drama series Nip/Tuck, playing the character of Chaz Darling. The episode (also titled “Chaz Darling”) aired in November 2007.
In March 2010, Rodriguez appeared as a newscaster in the music video for “Telephone”, with Lady Gaga and Beyoncé.
In February 2011, Rodriguez appeared in an episode of the ABC series Detroit 1–8-7 titled “Legacy; Drag City”, playing a drag queen.
In March 2011, Rodriguez made an appearance in an episode of NBC’s Harry’s Law, titled “Send in the Clowns”, as a transgender woman fired after an affair with a club owner was exposed.
In November 2011, Rodriguez appeared in an episode of How I Met Your Mother called “The Rebound Girl”, playing the husband of Barney Stinson’s brother.
Rodriguez regularly guest performs in Cookin’ With Gas , a long-running all improv show, at The Groundlings Theatre in Los Angeles.
As of May 2012, the new ABC sitcom Malibu Country has been picked up. Rodriguez is a regular cast member, playing record industry executive, Geoffrey.
As a stage actor and singer, he is best known for his roles in the Toronto cast of Broadway stage musical Rent, as Angel, and the Off-Broadway musical Zanna, Don’t!, as Zanna. He has also acted in several plays, including Spinning Into Butter at the Lincoln Center. In 2005, he created and performed his own one night stage show, “Jai Rodriguez: xPosed.” xPosed told the story of Rodriguez’s life and struggle to come out to his religious family, and of his career on stage and in Queer Eye. His Queer Eye co-stars Ted Allen and Carson Kressley appeared as themselves.
In November 1993, Rodriguez appeared in one episode of the daytime drama All My Children. In August 2005, he made a two-day guest appearance on the ABC daytime drama One Life to Live.
In November 2005, while Queer Eye was on filming hiatus, he joined the cast of The Producers on Broadway for three months, playing the role of Carmen Ghia. He played a different role, that of Sabu, in the 2005 Producers movie.
In August 2007, Rodriguez filmed a guest starring role in drama series Nip/Tuck, playing the character of Chaz Darling. The episode (also titled “Chaz Darling”) aired in November 2007.
In March 2010, Rodriguez appeared as a newscaster in the music video for “Telephone”, with Lady Gaga and Beyoncé.
In February 2011, Rodriguez appeared in an episode of the ABC series Detroit 1–8-7 titled “Legacy; Drag City”, playing a drag queen.
In March 2011, Rodriguez made an appearance in an episode of NBC’s Harry’s Law, titled “Send in the Clowns”, as a transgender woman fired after an affair with a club owner was exposed.
In November 2011, Rodriguez appeared in an episode of How I Met Your Mother called “The Rebound Girl”, playing the husband of Barney Stinson’s brother.
Rodriguez regularly guest performs in Cookin’ With Gas , a long-running all improv show, at The Groundlings Theatre in Los Angeles.
As of May 2012, the new ABC sitcom Malibu Country has been picked up. Rodriguez is a regular cast member, playing record industry executive, Geoffrey.