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Neil Jordan is an Irish film director, writer, screenwriter, and producer born in Sligo in 1950. He began his work period in 1979 and is a member of Aosdána. Jordan has received an Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay, as well as a Writers Guild of America Award and an honorary doctorate. He has also been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director and a European Film Award for Best Film.
As an author, he has produced works including *The Library of Traumatic Memory*, *Irland Erzählt*, *The butcher boy*, *Amanecer Con Monstruo Marino*, and *Amnesiac*. He is recognized in the Academy Award Best Original Screenplay collection. Jordan speaks English and has five children.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1950-02-25
- Works
- 31
Top works
- The Library of Traumatic Memory
- Irland Erzählt
- The butcher boy
- Amanecer Con Monstruo Marino
- Amnesiac
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Film & TV
Sligo, Ireland
Neil Patrick Jordan (born 25 February 1950) is an Irish filmmaker and novelist. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Crying Game (1992). Description above from the Wikipedia article Neil Jordan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
- Stephen Rea: The Fire in Me Now — Self2025
- A Look Through His Lens — Self2024
- An Accidental Studio — Self2019
- Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk — Self2018
- Excalibur: Behind the Movie — Self2013
- Muide Éire — Self2011
- The Meaning of Life — Self2009
- A Film with Me in It — Director2008
- Imagining Ulysses2004
- Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film — Self - Director ("Not I")2003
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Key facts
- Born
- Neil Patrick Jordan , ( 1950-02-25 ) 25 February 1950 (age 76) , Sligo , Ireland
- Education
- University College Dublin ( BA )
- Occupations
- Filmmaker writer
- Years active
- 1979–present
- Spouses
- Vivienne Shields ( divorced ) Brenda Rawn ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2004 )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Neil
- Family name
- Jordan
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Republic of Ireland
- Place of birth
- Sligo
- Occupation
- director
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- honorary doctorate
- Official website
- www.neiljordan.com
- Image
- Neil Jordan by David Shankbone.jpg
- Number of children
- 5
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- date of birth
- 1950-02-25
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- Neil Jordan
- member of
- Aosdána
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- Neil Jordan
- nominated for
- European Film Award for Best Film
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Neil Jordan
- start of work period
- 1979-00-00
- birth name
- Neil Patrick Jordan
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Encyclopedic overview
Neil Patrick Jordan (born 25 February 1950) is an Irish filmmaker and writer. His short story collection, Night in Tunisia, won the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1979. After a stint working at RTÉ, he made his directorial debut with the 1982 film Angel.
Jordan's films include the crime thrillers Mona Lisa (1986) and The Crying Game (1992), the horror dramas Interview with the Vampire (1994) and Byzantium (2012), the biopic Michael Collins (1996), the black comedy The Butcher Boy (1997), the Graham Greene adaptation The End of the Affair (1999), the transgender-themed dramedy Breakfast on Pluto (2005), and the psychological thriller Greta (2018). Jordan also created the Showtime Network television series The Borgias (2011–2013) and Sky Atlantic's Riviera (2017–2020).
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