Neil Jordan

Neil Patrick Jordan was born in Sligo on 25 February 1950, the son of a painter and a professor, before moving to Dublin to study history and stagecraft. That Atlantic childhood likely fed his later films, which turn ordinary love into vampire hunger, boyish rage into butchered comedy, and grief into games that break the heart. He has spent decades making that inward world visible, winning global awards while remaining rooted in a small Irish county.