Pamela Rooke
Actor
- Born
- June 23, 1955 · East Sussex, England
- Died
- April 3, 2022 (age 66)
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
Known for
Acting10
- 2001I Swear I Was There as Self
- 2000The Filth and the Fury as Self (archive footage)
- 1986The Way They Were: Punk and the New Wave 1976-1978 as Self "Jordan"
- 1981Nightshift as Receptionist
- 1980The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle as Girl wearing 'only anarchists are pretty shirt' (uncredited)
- 1979Steppin' Out as Self
- 1978Jubilee as Amyl Nitrite
- 1977Dressing for Pleasure as Herself
- 1977Jordan's Dance as Herself
- 1976