Jade Jordan
Jade Jordan in 2022
Born1988
Dublin, Ireland
Occupation(s)Actor, author
Years active2014–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.[1][2][3][4] 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.[5][6] In 2009, Jordan moved to London for drama school, graduating in 2013.[2][7] She later trained at Bow Street Academy.[6][3][5]

Career

In 2021, Jordan produced and wrote her first feature, The Colour Between. It was funded by Screen Ireland.[8][9][10][11] She has performed with the Abbey Theatre and the Druid Theatre Company.[12]

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.[13][2][7][14]

In 2023, she appeared in the Channel 5 series The Catch.[15]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2014 Lucifer's Night Bethany
2018 Rosie Megan
2020 Ascending Grace Sarah Short film
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

Year Title Role Notes
2018 Doctors Jen Hawkins Episode: "Worry Dolls"
2019 The Virtues Doctor 1 episode
2021 Kin Nellie Akanji 1 episode
2022 No Return Tara Fisher 2 episodes
Redemption Debbie Gleeson
2023 The Catch Katz

Music videos

Song Year Artist Notes
"Waiting to Breathe" 2021 Elaine Mai

Stage

Year Title Role Notes
2019 Citysong Abbey Theatre, Dublin

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Work Result Ref
2021 Irish Film London Súil Eile Award Won [16]
Irish Book Awards Audience Choice Award Nanny, Ma and Me Shortlisted [17]
2022 Dublin International Film Festival Discovery Award The Colour Between Nominated
IFTA Awards Best Short Film Nominated [lower-alpha 1]

Notes

  1. ↑ Shared with Dave Tynan.

References

  1. ↑ Brady, Tara. "You Are Not My Mother: An unholy marriage of Irish folklore and familial dysfunction". The Irish Times.
  2. 1 2 3 "Jade Jordan on identity, race and racism in Ireland". www.farmersjournal.ie.
  3. 1 2 "Jade Jordan's family story gives a changing picture of race and identity". independent.
  4. ↑ "Growing Up Different". WOMAN'S WAY.
  5. 1 2 "Jade Jordan". www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org.
  6. 1 2 Leonard, Sue (14 October 2021). "Jade Jordan". Sue Leonard.
  7. 1 2 Jordan, Jade (6 September 2021). "Jade Jordan: 'I was trying to wash my colour off me; trying to wash myself white'". Irish Examiner.
  8. ↑ Newsdesk, The Hot Press. "My 2021: Jade Jordan - "My first book being published was my best personal moment"". Hotpress.
  9. ↑ "Galway Film Fleadh". galwayfilmfleadh.eventive.org.
  10. ↑ "Jade Jordan". 21 September 2020.
  11. ↑ "Nanny, Ma & Me".
  12. ↑ "Irish Rep, Fishamble to Commission Irish Playwrights of Color". AMERICAN THEATRE. 8 February 2022.
  13. ↑ "Nonfiction Book Group - Nanny, Ma & me, Kathleen, Dominique &Jade Jordan | Solas Nua". www.solasnua.org.
  14. ↑ "Race relations". The Irish World. London. 27 February 2022. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
  15. ↑ "The Catch: Release date, cast and news for Channel 5 drama". radiotimes.com. 11 January 2023.
  16. ↑ "Jade Jordan with the Súil Eile Award during the Irish Film Festival..." Getty Images.
  17. ↑ "Listeners' Choice Award Shortlist | An Post Irish Book Awards".
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