Cilla Black
Biography
Priscilla Maria Veronica White is best known by her stage name Cilla Black. She rose to fame in the 1960s as a pop singer and her singles "Anyone Who Had a Heart" and "You're My World" both reached number one in the UK in 1964. She hosted her own variety show titled "Cilla" in the 60s and 70s and was an occasional comedy actress. Her career had a massive resurgence in the mid-80s and 1990s were she presented "Blind Date" were many tuned in for her acerbic comments, "Surprise Surprise" showed her softer side and "The Moment of Truth" was her successful peaktime game show. In the 2000s she put in memorable appearances on chat shows such as "The Paul O'Grady Show", "Loose Women" and "So Graham Norton". She died on 1st August 2015 after a fall in her villa in Estepona, Spain. The day after her funeral, the compilation album The Very Best of Cilla Black went to number one on the UK Albums Chart and the New Zealand Albums Chart; it was her first number one album.
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Full filmography
- Top of the Pops (1964) as Self
- Wogan (1982) as Self
- The One Show (2006) as Self
- Never Mind the Buzzcocks (1996) as Self - Host
- Loose Women (1999) as Self
- Benidorm (2007)
- The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) as Self
- Parkinson (1998) as Self
- The Paul O'Grady Show (2004)
- An Audience with... (1978) as Self
- The Alan Titchmarsh Show (2007) as Self
- Room 101 (1994) as Self
- 4-3-2-1 Hot and Sweet (1966) as Self
- The Goodies (1970)
- So Graham Norton (1998) as Self
- Disco (1971) as Self
- Through the Keyhole (2013) as Self - Panelist
- Alan Carr: Chatty Man (2009) as Self
- Live & Kicking (1993) as Self
- Shindig! (1964) as Self - Singer
- Blind Date (1985)
- The Two Ronnies (1971)
- Kate Garraway's Life Stories (2009) as Self
- Surprise, Surprise (1984) as Self - Presenter