Jade Jordan 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. Her first feature film as a screenwriter, The Colour Between, was released in 2021. Her autobiography Nanny, Ma and Me, was published in the same year.
Early life and education Jade Jordan was born in Dublin and grew up in the Fingal suburb of Blanchardstown with her sister Pariss.
She attended secondary school at Coolmine Community School. She then did a course in theatre studies at Coláiste Dhúlaigh College of Further Education.
In 2009, Jordan moved to London for drama school, graduating in 2013. She later trained at Bow Street Academy.
Career Jordan has performed on stage with Abbey Theatre and the Druid Theatre Company.
In 2021, she produced and wrote her first feature film, The Colour Between. It was funded by Screen Ireland.
In 2023, she appeared in the Channel 5 series The Catch.
Personal life Jordan's 2021 autobiography Nanny, Ma and Me, published in 2021, 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.
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 2024 Blackshore Donna Walsh
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 Irish Book Awards Audience Choice Award Nanny, Ma and Me 2022 Dublin International Film Festival Discovery Award The Colour Between IFTA Awards Best Short Film
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