Jeffrey Nordling was born March 11, 1962 in Ridgewood, New Jersey but grew up in Washington Township.  He studied at the Ramapo High School located in Franklin Lakes, Bergen County.

Nordling is most famous for his role as Jake Manning on Once and Again.  He was also Larry Moss on 24, Bruce Hastings on Murder, She Wrote, and Mr. Schepps on Chicago Hope.  Among his other TV appearances were on shows Touched by An Angel, Veronica's Closet, Melrose Place, Sex and the City, Crossing Jordan, Cold Case, Nip/Tuck and Judging Amy to name a few.  He was also seen as Gaetan Dugas in the Emmy Award-winning HBO production And The Band Played On, a made-for-TV movie.

In 1996, he played Neil Armstrong in Apollo 11 and in 1997, he was cast as Dr. Peter Woods in the western drama True Women.  His film credits include Polish Wedding, Flicka, Fear of Flying, D3: The Mighty Ducks and Home of the Brave, which also starred Samuel Jackson and Christina Ricci.  Nordling was also part of the short film Hole in the Paper Sky.

Jeffrey Nordling is a member of Antaeus Classical Repertory Company and has performed in several stage plays.  In 1998, he was Macduff in William Shakespeare's Hamlet shown at the Joseph Papp Public Theater in New York City.  In 2005, he acted in Robert Schenkkan's Lewis and Clark Reach The Euphrates at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.  He is also trained in stage combat and is a certified fight choreographer.

He is married to wife Francia Dimase and has twin daughters named Eloise and Miranda.

Brent Barrow is played by Jeffrey Nordling on FX's drama series Dirt.  The show focuses on DirtNow's editor-in-chief Lucy Spiller, the people around her and the publication of the first ever glossy tabloid.  Jeffrey is the tabloid's publisher and often threatens to fire Lucy as their conflicting interests arise.