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Pamela Rooke

Pamela Rooke

Acting1955East 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

Acting History

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)
1979
1978
Jubilee
as Amyl Nitrite
1977
1976
Sebastiane
as Madame Morgana, Emperor's Guest

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Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
6/23/1955
Day of Death
4/3/2022
Place of Birth
East Sussex, England
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