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Also known as Neil Patrick Jordan

Irish filmmaker and fiction writer

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Neil Patrick Jordan is an Irish film director, writer, screenwriter, and film producer. Born on February 25, 1950, in Sligo, he holds citizenship in the Republic of Ireland. His professional career began in 1979. Jordan is a member of Aosdána and has received a Writers Guild of America Award, an Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay, and an honorary doctorate. He has also been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and the European Film Award for Best Film.

As an author, Jordan has published 31 works, including *The Library of Traumatic Memory*, *Irland Erzählt*, *The butcher boy*, *Amanecer Con Monstruo Marino*, and *Amnesiac*. He speaks English and has five children.

Synthesized by Vinony from 36 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Crossref, Last.fm, TMDb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

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

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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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Wikidata facts

Instance of
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Given name
Neil
Family name
Jordan
Gender
male
Place of birth
Sligo
Occupation
director
Languages spoken
English language
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
Commons category
Neil Jordan
member of
Aosdána
Commons gallery
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).

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

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