Tony Jordan was born on 21 July 1957 and is a British television writer.
14 Facts About Tony Jordan
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Tony Jordan created the series Hustle, HolbyBlue, City Central, Moving Wallpaper, Echo Beach, The Nativity, The Passing Bells and Dickensian, and co-created Life on Mars and By Any Means.
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Tony Jordan joined EastEnders after sending a spec script to the BBC about market traders, with a covering letter saying he had been born and raised in the East End of London.
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Afraid of what would happen if the producers found out that he was from the north, Tony Jordan kept up the pretence of being a Londoner for five years.
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Tony Jordan was the first writer to do EastEnders when it began airing three times a week, when the siege at The Queen Victoria took place in 1994.
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Tony Jordan continued to work on EastEnders through a period which saw a reversal in its hitherto declining fortunes, with the programme winning the Most Popular Soap category at the National Television Awards in 2005.
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Tony Jordan wrote the first two episodes for the return of the characters of Phil and Grant Mitchell, popular characters he had originally helped to create back in 1989.
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Tony Jordan created the series of Moving Wallpaper and Echo Beach for ITV; these were companion pieces, the latter being a soap opera and the former being a sitcom about the production of that soap opera.
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In 2007, Tony Jordan was honoured for his work on EastEnders at the British Soap Awards with a "Special Achievement award".
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On 14 November 2007, it was announced that Tony Jordan would be returning to EastEnders less than twelve months after quitting, to write one final episode.
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Tony Jordan subsequently wrote the script for Dot Branning's single-handed episode, broadcast on 31 January 2008 on BBC One.
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In 2010 Tony Jordan wrote The Nativity, a new BBC version of the nativity of Jesus story starring Peter Capaldi, broadcast in December 2010.
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Tony Jordan states he had always had a faith but it was during this work that he became convinced that Jesus who was born in this way is the Son of God and that the Nativity story is a 'true story' and a 'thing of beauty'.
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In 2013 Tony Jordan wrote By Any Means and The Passing-Bells, and in 2015 he wrote Dickensian.