Network/People/Pamela Rooke
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Born1955-06-23
BirthplaceEast Sussex, England
Credits5 titles
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Pamela Rooke

Actor· East Sussex, England

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

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Filmography

5 credits across 1 departments.

YearTitleRoleType
2000The Filth and the FurySelf (archive footage)Film
1981NightshiftReceptionistFilm
1980The Great Rock 'n' Roll SwindleGirl wearing 'only anarchists are pretty shirt' (uncredited)Film
1978JubileeAmyl NitriteFilm
1976SebastianeMadame Morgana, Emperor's GuestFilm

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