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), ''

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'' (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 Blanchardstown with her sister Pariss. Jordan attended secondary school at

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. She then did a course in theatre studies 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

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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. 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

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

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before moving to Blanchardstown in the 1980s. In 2023, she appeared in the Channel 5 series ''

''.

Filmography

Film

Television

Music videos

Stage

Awards and nominations

Notes

References

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* {{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