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

Jubilee

I Swear I Was There

Nightshift

Dressing for Pleasure

Filmography

2001 I Swear I Was There

as Self

2000 The Filth and the Fury

as Self (archive footage)

1981 Nightshift

as Receptionist

1980 The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle

as Girl wearing 'only anarchists are pretty shirt' (uncredited)

1978 Jubilee

as Amyl Nitrite

1977 Dressing for Pleasure

as Herself

1977 Jordan's Dance