Pamela Rooke
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
Jubilee
1978
as Amyl Nitrite
Sebastiane
1976
as Madame Morgana, Emperor's Guest
The Filth and the Fury
2000
as Self (archive footage)
The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
1980
as Girl wearing 'only anarchists are pretty shirt' (uncredited)
The Way They Were: Punk and the New Wave 1976-1978
1986
as Self "Jordan"
Jordan's Dance
1977
as Herself
Nightshift
1981
as Receptionist
Steppin' Out
1979
as Self
Dressing for Pleasure
1977
as Herself
I Swear I Was There
2001
as Self