Neil Jordan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Neil Jordan

Irish filmmaker and fiction writer

Date of Birth: 25-Feb-1950

Place of Birth: Sligo, Connacht, Ireland

Profession: screenwriter, writer, film director, film producer, novelist

Nationality: Ireland

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Neil Patrick Jordan (born 25 February 1950) is an Irish film director, screenwriter, novelist and short-story writer.
His first book, Night in Tunisia, won a Somerset Maugham Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1979.
He won an Academy Award (Best Original Screenplay) for The Crying Game (1992).
He has also won three Irish Film and Television Awards, as well as the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin International Film Festival for The Butcher Boy (1997).Jordan also created The Borgias (2011 TV series) for Showtime.