Jade Jordan
{{Short description|Irish actor and author}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Jade Jordan
| image = Screen Shot of Jade Jordon in "Screen Writer's Panel Event at Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival".png
| caption = Jade Jordan in 2022
| birth_name =
| birth_date = 1988
| birth_place = Dublin, Ireland
| occupation = Actor, author
| years_active = 2014–present
}}
Jade Jordan (born 1988) is an Irish actor and writer. She has appeared in film in Rosie (2018), and You Are Not My Mother (2021), and on television in Doctors (2018), The Virtues (2019), Kin (2021), Redemption (2022), and The Catch in 2023.
As an author, she wrote her autobiography Nanny, Ma and Me.{{Cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/you-are-not-my-mother-an-unholy-marriage-of-irish-folklore-and-familial-dysfunction-1.4815255|title=You Are Not My Mother: An unholy marriage of Irish folklore and familial dysfunction|first=Tara|last=Brady|newspaper=The Irish Times}}{{cite web|url=https://www.farmersjournal.ie/jade-jordan-on-identity-race-and-racism-in-ireland-651255|title=Jade Jordan on identity, race and racism in Ireland|website=www.farmersjournal.ie}}{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/book-reviews/jade-jordans-family-story-gives-a-changing-picture-of-race-and-identity-40859074.html|title=Jade Jordan's family story gives a changing picture of race and identity|website=independent}}{{cite web|url=https://www.womansway.ie/main-blog/2021/11/16/growing-up-different|title=Growing Up Different|website=WOMAN'S WAY}} and her first feature The Colour Between in 2021.
Early life
Jordan was born in Dublin and grew up in the Fingal suburb of Blanchardstown with her sister Pariss. Jordan attended secondary school at Coolmine Community School. She then did a course in theatre studies at Coláiste Dhúlaigh College of Further Education.{{cite web|url=https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/readers/jade-jordan|title=Jade Jordan|website=www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org}}{{cite web|url=https://www.suejleonard.com/articles/beginners-pluck/jade-jordan/|title=Jade Jordan|first=Sue|last=Leonard|date=14 October 2021|website=Sue Leonard}} In 2009, Jordan moved to London for drama school, graduating in 2013.{{cite web|url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsandculture/arid-40372580.html|title=Jade Jordan: 'I was trying to wash my colour off me; trying to wash myself white'|first=Jade|last=Jordan|date=6 September 2021|website=Irish Examiner}} She later trained at Bow Street Academy.
Career
In 2021, Jordan produced and wrote her first feature, The Colour Between. It was funded by Screen Ireland.{{cite web|url=https://www.hotpress.com/culture/my-2021-jade-jordan-my-first-book-being-published-was-my-best-personal-moment-22887646|title=My 2021: Jade Jordan - "My first book being published was my best personal moment"|first=The Hot Press|last=Newsdesk|website=Hotpress}}{{cite web|url=https://galwayfilmfleadh.eventive.org/films/60d6659ebcbcb400a02d8366|title=Galway Film Fleadh|website=galwayfilmfleadh.eventive.org}}{{cite web|url=https://www.hachette.co.uk/contributor/jade-jordan/|title=Jade Jordan|date=21 September 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.irishbookawards.ie/nominee/nanny-ma-me/|title=Nanny, Ma & Me}} She has performed with the Abbey Theatre and the Druid Theatre Company.{{cite web|url=https://www.americantheatre.org/2022/02/08/irish-rep-fishamble-to-commission-irish-playwrights-of-color/|title=Irish Rep, Fishamble to Commission Irish Playwrights of Color|date=8 February 2022|website=AMERICAN THEATRE}}
Jordan's 2021 autobiography Nanny, Ma and Me describes her experiences as a Black Irish woman and tells the stories of her grandmother, Kathleen, and her mother, Dominique. Kathleen, born in 1932, moved from Ireland to London in the 1950s to studying nursing. In 1963, she married Larry, a Jamaican man who moved to England as part of the Windrush generation. The couple had three children, including Dominique, and lived in Walthamstow. The family returned to Dublin in 1978, first living in a tenement building on Seán McDermott Street before moving to Blanchardstown in the 1980s.{{cite web|url=https://www.solasnua.org/events/nonfiction-book-group-nanny-ma-me-kathleen-dominique-jade-jordan|title=Nonfiction Book Group - Nanny, Ma & me, Kathleen, Dominique &Jade Jordan | Solas Nua|website=www.solasnua.org}}{{cite news |url=https://www.theirishworld.com/jade-jordan/ |title=Race relations |newspaper=The Irish World |place=London |date=2022-02-27 |access-date=2022-08-15}}
In 2023, she appeared in the Channel 5 series The Catch.{{cite news|title= The Catch: Release date, cast and news for Channel 5 drama |url= https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/the-catch-channel-5-release-date/|website= radiotimes.com |date=January 11, 2023}}
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! Notes |
|---|
| 2014
| Lucifer's Night | Bethany | |
| 2018
| Rosie | Megan | |
| 2020
| Ascending Grace | Sarah | Short film |
| rowspan="4" | 2021
| Foxglove | Robin | Short film |
| The Colour Between
| Annalise | Short film; also writer and producer |
| You Are Not My Mother
| Ms. Devlin | |
| X Marks the Spot
| Emer | Short film |
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! Notes |
|---|
| 2018
| Doctors | Jen Hawkins | Episode: "Worry Dolls" |
| 2019
| Doctor | 1 episode |
| 2021
| Kin | Nellie Akanji | 1 episode |
| rowspan="2" | 2022
| No Return | Tara Fisher | 2 episodes |
| Redemption
| Debbie Gleeson | |
| 2023
| Katz | |
| 2024
| Donna Walsh | |
=Music videos=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Song
! Year ! Artist ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| "Waiting to Breathe"
| 2021 | Elaine Mai | |
Stage
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! Notes |
|---|
| 2019
| Citysong | | Abbey Theatre, Dublin |
Awards and nominations
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" |
| Year
! Award ! Category ! Work ! Result ! Ref |
|---|
| rowspan="2" | 2021
| Irish Film London | Súil Eile Award | | {{won}} |
| Irish Book Awards
| Audience Choice Award | Nanny, Ma and Me | {{Shortlisted}} |
| rowspan="2" | 2022
| Dublin International Film Festival | Discovery Award | rowspan="2" | The Colour Between | {{nom}} | |
| IFTA Awards
| Best Short Film | {{nom}} | {{efn|Shared with Dave Tynan.}} |
Notes
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References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|6552615|Jade Jordan}}
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Category:21st-century Irish actresses
Category:Actresses from County Dublin