Pamela Rooke
Acting
Biography
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
Notable Works
Prominent titles featuring Pamela Rooke
Filmography
Acting (10)
2001
I Swear I Was Thereas Self
6.0
2000
The Filth and the Furyas Self (archive footage)
6.9
1986
The Way They Were: Punk and the New Wave 1976-1978as Self "Jordan"
1981
Nightshiftas Receptionist
6.7
1980
The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindleas Girl wearing 'only anarchists are pretty shirt' (uncredited)
6.4
1979
Steppin' Outas Self
7.0
1978
Jubileeas Amyl Nitrite
6.0
1977
Dressing for Pleasureas Herself
7.7
1977
Jordan's Danceas Herself
5.9
1976
Sebastianeas Madame Morgana, Emperor's Guest
6.5