Place of Birth: East Sussex, England
Pamela Rooke
Known as Jordan, Seaford born Pamela Rooke was the Vivienne Westwood model, punk performer, band manager and actress credited with helping to create the W10 London punk aesthetic. She made a cameo appearance in Derek Jarman's debut film Sebastiane, and played the lead role in his follow-up film Jubilee as the punk "anti-historian" Amyl Nitrate, after the drug Amyl Nitrite. She can also be seen in Julien Temple's The Great Rock and Roll Swindle wearing an "only anarchists are pretty" T-shirt and appearing on stage with the Sex Pistols during their first live television performance of "Anarchy in the U.K." in August 1976 on Tony Wilson's So It Goes Granada TV programme
Movie | Cast | Year |
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Jubilee | Amyl Nitrite | 1978 |
The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle | Girl wearing 'only anarchists are pretty shirt' (uncredited) | 1980 |
I Swear I Was There | Self | 2001 |
Nightshift | Receptionist | 1981 |
Dressing for Pleasure | Herself | 1977 |
Jordan's Dance | Herself | 1977 |
Sebastiane | Madame Morgana, Emperor's Guest | 1976 |
The Filth and the Fury | Self (archive footage) | 2000 | Series | Cast | Year |