Neil Jordan

Neil Jordan, director of Sony Pictures Classics' Breakfast on Pluto - 2005

Biography

Born 02/25/1950

Although not a painter like his grandfather, mother and two sisters, Irish filmmaker Neil Jordan inherited the same artistic sensibilities but opted for a camera instead of a brush to create the visually rich canvasses of his always complex pictures. He first became established, however, as an...
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Awards

  • In 2000, received Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Screenplay
  • In 2000, received BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
  • In 1998, received Berlin Film Festival Silver Bear for Best Director

Highlights

  • In 2007, Directed Jodie Foster in the crime drama "The Brave One"
  • In 2005, Helmed "Breakfast on Pluto" starring Cillian Murphy as Patrick "Pussy" Braden, a transvestite prostitute
  • In 2002, Helmed "The Good Thief" a thriller starring Nick Nolte as an aging gambler who attempts to rob a casino in the South of France

Family & Companions

  • briefly involved with a woman named Mary, who is the mother of his son Ben
  • Beverly D'Angelo: no longer together; acted in Jordan's "The Miracle" (1991)
  • Brenda Rawn: has lived with Jordan since c. 1988; mother of three of Jordan's children

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