Pamela Rooke

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

Nightshift

Dressing for Pleasure

Acting

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)

Production

Crew

Directing