Jordan Roberts (writer)

Jordan Roberts (born Bruce Robert Jordan; June 19, 1957) is an American screenwriter and film director, known for co-writing the screenplays for the Academy Award-winning animated Disney film Big Hero 6 (2014), for which he was nominated for the Annie Award for Writing in a Feature Production and Ferdinand (2017). He also wrote and directed Around the Bend (2004), 3,2,1... Frankie Go Boom (2012), and Burn Your Maps (2016).

Personal life
Roberts is the son of actress Roberta "Bobbi" Jordan (née Barlett; 1937–2012) and screenwriter and film producer Robert Samuel Jordan, who left the family when Roberts was 3 years old. His stepfather was television screenwriter William "Bill" Jacobson (1919–2011), whom his mother married on October 23, 1968. Roberts had one brother, Scott Jordan, who died in the 1980s of a heroin overdose, and one older stepsister, Jessie Jacobson. Roberts married Marianne Roberts in 1991. They have a son, Cameron Roberts. Roberts also has a nephew, Brandon Jordan.

Career
In 1997, Roberts wrote the script for the comedy film The Debtors, directed by Evi Quaid and starring Michael Caine. However, The Debtors remains unreleased due to legal troubles with the director and her husband, Randy Quaid, who co-starred in the film. Roberts is known for writing and directing the road movie Around the Bend (2004), and the comedy film 3,2,1... Frankie Go Boom (2012).

In 2005, Roberts wrote the narration for the U.S. version of the French documentary March of the Penguins, which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, and for which Roberts was nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Documentary Screenplay. In 2011, he had a minor role as a Maitre d' in the critically acclaimed independent film Fly Away, directed by Janet Grillo. In 2014, he co-wrote the Hilary Swank-starring drama film You're Not You with Shana Feste. He directed Vera Farmiga, Jacob Tremblay and Virginia Madsen in the comedy-drama adventure film Burn Your Maps.