Lydia Jordan is a native New Yorker of Cuban and Irish descent. Her parents met while acting in an NYU student film and have encouraged her love of performing since she was 4 years old, when she and her brothers began staging musicals for their parents called "showsies". She met with an agent, and has been working ever since. She recently earned her B.A. in Theater from Muhlenberg College, in Allentown, PA. She graduated Magna Cum Laude with a minor in Religion Studies.