Pamela Rooke
Actor
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
Filmography
The Filth and the Fury
as Self (archive footage) 2000
Jubilee
as Amyl Nitrite 1978
The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
as Girl wearing 'only anarchists are pretty shirt' (uncredited) 1980
Nightshift
as Receptionist 1981
Jordan's Dance
as Herself 1977
Dressing for Pleasure
as Herself 1977
I Swear I Was There
as Self 2001
The Way They Were: Punk and the New Wave 1976-1978
as Self "Jordan" 1986