Pamela Rooke

Pamela Rooke

Deceased · Born: Jun 23, 1955 · Died: Apr 3, 2022

Known For

Personal Details

Born Jun 23, 1955 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

Career

1978
Jubilee
Jubilee as Amyl Nitrite
Watch
2001
I Swear I Was There
2000
The Clash: Westway to the World