Pamela Rooke

Born: 1955-06-23 in East Sussex, England

Died: 2022-04-03

Known For: 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

Filmography

2001

I Swear I Was There as Self

2000

The Filth and the Fury as Self (archive footage)

1986

The Way They Were: Punk and the New Wave 1976-1978 as Self "Jordan"

1981

Nightshift as Receptionist

1980

The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle as Girl wearing 'only anarchists are pretty shirt' (uncredited)

1979

Steppin' Out as Self

1978

Jubilee as Amyl Nitrite

1977

Jordan's Dance as Herself
Dressing for Pleasure as Herself

1976

Sebastiane as Madame Morgana, Emperor's Guest