Name
Pamela Rooke
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1955-06-23
Deathday
2022-04-03 (67 years old)
Place of Birth
East Sussex, England
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
Known For
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Julien Temple's second documentary profiling punk rock pioneers the Sex Pistols is an enli...
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A rather incoherent post-breakup Sex Pistols "documentary", told from the point of view of...
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Rome, AD 303. Emperor Diocletian demotes his favourite, Sebastian, from captain of the pal...
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As night falls, the receptionist of a small hotel dutifully performs her routine tasks whi...
- 1978 Jubilee as Amyl Nitrite
- 1980 The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle as Girl wearing 'only anarchists are pretty shirt' (uncredited)
- 2001 I Swear I Was There as Self
- 1981 Nightshift as Receptionist
- 1977 Dressing for Pleasure as Herself
- 1977 Jordan's Dance as Herself
- 1976 Sebastiane as Madame Morgana, Emperor's Guest
- 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"
- 1979 Steppin' Out as Self
