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.

Jordan was born in Dublin and grew up in the Fingal suburb of Blanchardstown with her sister Pariss.

[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.

In 1963, she married Larry, a Jamaican man who moved to England as part of the Windrush generation.

The family returned to Dublin in 1978, first living in a tenement building on Seán McDermott Street before moving to Blanchardstown in the 1980s.