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Also known as Neil Patrick Jordan

Irish filmmaker and fiction writer

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

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

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1948-10-17
Active to
2007-09-16
author

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
789
Total plays
2,096

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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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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).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Neil Jordan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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