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 ''

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'' (2018), '' The Virtues'' (2019), '' Kin'' (2021), '' Redemption'' (2022), and ''

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'' in 2023. As an author, she wrote her autobiography ''Nanny, Ma and Me''. and her first feature ''The Colour Between'' in 2021.

Early life

Jordan was born in

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and grew up in the

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suburb of

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with her sister Pariss. Jordan attended secondary school at

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. She then did a course in

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at Coláiste Dhúlaigh College of Further Education. In 2009, Jordan moved to

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for drama school, graduating in 2013. She later trained at

Bow Street Academy Bow Street Academy — the National Screen Acting School of Ireland (known simply as Bow Street) is a film and television acting academy in Dublin, Ireland. Named after its location on the road that was once home to the original Jameson whisky ...

Career

In 2021, Jordan produced and wrote her first feature, ''The Colour Between''. It was funded by

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. She has performed with the

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and the

Druid Theatre Company The Druid Theatre Company, referred to as Druid, is an Irish theatre company, based in Galway, Ireland. As well as touring extensively across Ireland, the company's productions have played internationally to Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the ...

. 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

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. The couple had three children, including Dominique, and lived in

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. The family returned to Dublin in 1978, first living in a

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building on Seán McDermott Street before moving to

in the 1980s. In 2023, she appeared in the Channel 5 series ''

''.

Filmography

Film

Television

Music videos

Stage

Awards and nominations

Notes

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jordan, Jade Living people 1988 births 21st-century Irish actresses Actresses from County Dublin Black Irish people Irish people of Jamaican descent Irish film actresses Irish television actresses