Gregor Jordan

{{short description|Australian film director}}

{{Use Australian English|date=June 2020}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Gregor Jordan

| image = Gregor Jordan and Simone Kessell 2012 (cropped) 1.jpg

| caption = Jordan in 2012

| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1966}}

| birth_place = Sale, Victoria, Australia

| occupation = Film director, screenwriter, actor

| spouse = Simone Kessell

| children = 2

}}

Gregor Jordan (born 1966) is an Australian film director, writer and actor.{{cite web|title=Gregor Jordan|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/268763/Gregor-Jordan/biography|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140430183647/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/268763/Gregor-Jordan/biography|url-status=dead|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|publisher=Baseline & All Movie Guide|date=2014|archive-date=2014-04-30}}

Jordan's films include Two Hands (1999), Buffalo Soldiers (2001), and Ned Kelly (2003).

Two Hands won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Direction and Best Screenplay in 1999. He has most recently directed The Informers, an American film adapted from short stories written by Bret Easton Ellis and Nicholas Jarecki and the thriller Unthinkable starring Samuel L. Jackson.

He directed the concert video These Days: Live in Concert (2004) by Australian rock band Powderfinger.

He has also produced a live concert DVD of Powderfinger's final concert tour 'Sunsets' (2010), as well as a documentary about Ian Thorpe's failed return to professional swimming ahead of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London.

{{cite news

| title = Thorpe set for Swiss training

| first = international

| last = AAP

| url = http://www.smh.com.au/sport/swimming/thorpe-set-for-swiss-training-20110228-1baow.html

| date = 2011-02-28

| work = The Sydney Morning Herald

| access-date = 2011-03-24}}

Jordan is married to New Zealand actress Simone Kessell. They have two sons, Jack, who was born in January 2005 in Los Angeles and Beau, born in 2013.{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}

Prior to making films Gregor Jordan played Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice for Shakespeare By The Sea (Australia).He also appeared briefly in Australian soap, Home and Away, from September 1989 to November 1989.

{{cite news

| title = Midsummer night's dream

| first = Katrina

| last = Lobley

| url = http://www.smh.com.au/news/Entertainment/Midsummer-nights-dream/2005/01/06/1104832230239.html

| date = 2005-01-07

| work = The Sydney Morning Herald

| access-date = 2006-12-15}}