Jordan: The comeback

Jordan Peele has been widely acclaimed as a horror movie auteur, an influential commentator on US race relations and a natural heir to cinematic icons such as Alfred Hitchcock and Steven Spielberg

Factfile

Age:40

Appearance: boyish and bespectacled, with a greying beard

Newsworthiness: the horror movie auteur is enjoying record-breaking success with his new film Us.

Jordan Peele never expected to become a film director. For almost ten years, the New York comedian thought about writing a screenplay based on his childhood fear of what might happen if a white girlfriend’s parents discovered he was black. When he finally pitched it to a producer with ...