Neil Jordan

Filmmakers

Neil Patrick Jordan (February 25, 1950) is an Irish film director, screenwriter, novelist and short-story writer. He made his feature film debut with Angel (1982), with Stephen Rea (who has subsequently appeared in almost all of Jordan’s films to date), Veronica Quilligan, and Alan Devlin. Other films in the 1980s include The Company of Wolves (1984), with Sarah Patterson, Angela Lansbury, Rea, and David Warner; Mona Lisa (1986), with Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, and Michael Caine; High Spirits (1988), with Steve Guttenberg, Daryl Hannah, Beverly D’Angelo, Liam Neeson and Peter O’Toole; and We’re No Angels (1989), with Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, and Demi Moore.

He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Crying Game (1992), with Rea, Miranda Richardson, Jaye Davidson, Adrian Dunbar, Ralph Brown and Forest Whitaker. Other notable films of the 1990s include The Miracle (1991), with D’Angelo, Donal McCann, Niall Byrne, and Lorraine Pilkington; Interview with the Vampire (1994), with Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Kirsten Dunst, Christian Slater, and Antonio Banderas; Michael Collins (1996), with Neeson, Aiden Quinn, Alan Rickman, Ian Hart, and Julia Roberts; The Butcher Boy (1997), with Eamonn Owens, Rea, Fiona Shaw, and Sinéad O’Connor; The End of the Affair (1999), with Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore, and Jason Isaacs; and In Dreams (1999), with Anette Benning and Robert Downey Jr..

Films of the 2000s include The Good Thief (2002), with Nick Nolte; Breakfast on Pluto (2005), with Cillian Murphy, Rea, Brendan Gleeson, and Neeson; The Brave One (2007), with Jodie Foster, Naveen Andrews, Terrence Howard, Nicky Katt, Zoë Kravitz, Mary Steenburgen, and Luis Da Silva; Ondine (2009), with Colin Farrell and Alicja Bachleda; Byzantium (2012), with Gemma Arterton, Saoirse Ronan, Sam Riley, and Jonny Lee Miller; Greta (2018), with Isabelle Huppert, Chloë Grace Moretz, Maika Monroe, Colm Feore, and Rea; and Marlow (2022), with Neeson, Diane Kruger, Jessica Lange, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Alan Cumming, Francois Arnaud, Hart, Danny Huston, Daniela Melchior and Colm Meaney.

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  • Angel (1982)
  • The Company of Wolves (1984)
  • Mona Lisa (1986)
  • High Spirits (1988)
  • We’re No Angels (1989)
  • The Miracle (1991)
  • The Crying Game (1992)
  • Interview with the Vampire (1994)
  • Michael Collins (1996)
  • The Butcher Boy (1997)
  • The End of the Affair (1999)
  • In Dreams (1999)
  • Not I (2000)
  • The Good Thief (2002)
  • Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
  • The Brave One (2007)
  • Ondine (2009)
  • Byzantium (2012)
  • Greta (2018)
  • Marlowe (2022)