Neil Jordan

Neil Patrick Jordan is an Irish film director, screenwriter and novelist. He won an Academy Award for The Crying Game . He also won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin International Film Festival for The Butcher Boy .

Jordan was born in County Sligo, the son of Angela , a painter, and Michael Jordan, a professor. He was educated at St. Pauls College, Raheny. Of his religious background, Jordan said in a 1999 Salon interview I was brought up a Catholic and was quite religious at one stage in my life, when I was young. But it left me with no scars whatever it just sort of vanished. He said about his current beliefs that God is the greatest imaginary being of all time. Along with Einsteins General Theory of Relativity, the invention of God is probably the greatest creation of human thought. Later, Jordan attended University College Dublin, where he studied Irish history and English literature.

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