Eldon Jones as Cody, grandson of focus character Sam Cooper (Alfred Molina, right) , was the one bright spot in the overwhelming heterosexism of the Netflix paranormal series The Boroughs. While enduring the endless "My wife! My wife! My wife", it was a relief to check out the photos his mom posted of Eldon in feminine outfits, hanging with his gay brother, and attending Pride events. Maybe the kid is gay in real life, maybe not, but he provides a reminder that LGBT people exist, no matter how aggressively they are erased.
Eldon was born in 2011, son of Neal Jones, best known for Dirty Dancing (1987): he plays the "kind-hearted" Billy, who gets his cousin Johnny (Patrick Swayze, left) a job at the Borscht Belt resort, and introdues him to "dirty dancing."
The family lives in Albuquerque. Older brother Jax (middle) graduated from the University of New Mexico with a degree in fine arts in May 2026. Mom often posts photos of him and his boyfriend.
Eldon is in the front, and sister Marian, also an actor, is in the back of the sibling pile.
Eldon is remarkably accomplished.
A member of the permanent company of the National Dance Institute of New Mexico.
Studies piano at the New Mexico School of Music.
An artist, interested in penguin comics and watercolors.
A chef, baking bread and making soup for the family.
Literary. When they visited London, he checked out the bookstores (that's the first thing I look for, too). He was reading Herman Hesse at age 12.
I've read some Hesse (Siddhartha and Steppenwolf), but I never even heard of the book he's reading: Knulp, about a "carefree vagabond who lives outside societal rules."
And of course Eldon is an actor.
He started as a background player in three 2022 episodes of Walker: Independence, about a woman in the Old West searching for the guy who murdered her husband. Apparently there's a gay character.
Left: I couldn't find the gay guy in the cast list, but I found Jeff Pierre, who played Cameron Monaghan's boyfriend on Shameless.
More after the break