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Neil Jordan

1950 - Today

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Neil Patrick Jordan (born 25 February 1950) is an Irish filmmaker and writer. He first achieved recognition for his short story collection, Night in Tunisia, which 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 best-known 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). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Neil Jordan is the 480th most popular film director (down from 374th in 2019), the 114th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 78th in 2019) and the most popular Irish Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Neil Jordan ranks 480 out of 2,041. Before him are Philippe Garrel, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Jerome Robbins, André Téchiné, Patrice Leconte, and Delbert Mann. After him are Maurice Pialat, Norman Taurog, Tom McCarthy, Ladislao Vajda, Claude Zidi, and Lindsay Anderson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Neil Jordan ranks 177. Before him are Lindsay Duncan, Thorbjørn Jagland, Anton Ondruš, Andrzej Szarmach, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and Richard Dannatt. After him are Chuck Schumer, Vassiliki Thanou-Christophilou, Rebbie Jackson, Mary Hopkin, Nobuo Fujishima, and Bah Ndaw.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Neil Jordan ranks 114 out of 549. Before him are Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1845), Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope (1883), Sheamus (1978), Douglas Hyde (1860), Eliza Lynch (1833), and Kevin Roche (1922). After him are David Kelly (1929), Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh (1769), Charles Maturin (1780), Edmund the Martyr (841), Kevin of Glendalough (498), and Fiona Shaw (1958).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Ireland

Among film directors born in Ireland, Neil Jordan ranks 1. After him are Jim Sheridan (1949), Herbert Brenon (1880), Steve Barron (1956), Rex Ingram (1892), William Desmond Taylor (1872), Lenny Abrahamson (1966), and John Moore (1970).

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