Jade Jordan

Jade Jordan was born in Dublin and grew up in the Fingal suburb of Blanchardstown with her sister Pariss.^[1][2]

She attended secondary school at Coolmine Community School. She then did a course in theatre studies at Coláiste Dhúlaigh College of Further Education.^[3][4]

In 2009, Jordan moved to London for drama school, graduating in 2013.^[1][2] She later trained at Bow Street Academy.^[4][5][3]

Jordan has performed on stage with Abbey Theatre and the Druid Theatre Company.^[6]

In 2021, she produced and wrote her first feature film, The Colour Between. It was funded by Screen Ireland.^{[7][8][9][10]}

In 2023, she appeared in the Channel 5 series The Catch.^[11]

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.^{[12][1][2][13][14][1][5][15]}