Neil Jordan
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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
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Directing · 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
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 789
- Total plays
- 2,096
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 19,976x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,341x
- A method for registration of 3-D shapes
· 1992 · cited 13,921x
- Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy
· 2013 · cited 13,128x
- Mixed effects models and extensions in ecology with R
· 2009 · cited 12,572x
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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 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 25 February 1950
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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
- author
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- honorary doctorate
- Official website
- www.neiljordan.com
Article
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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1950 births20th-century Irish male writers20th-century Irish short story writers20th-century Irish writers21st-century Irish male writers21st-century Irish short story writers21st-century Irish writersAlumni of University College DublinAosdána membersBest Adapted Screenplay BAFTA Award winnersBest Original Screenplay Academy Award winners