Dana
Acting Born Aug 30, 1951 London, England, UK 22 credits
Biography
Dana Rosemary Scallon known professionally as Dana, is an Irish singer and songwriter.
While still a schoolgirl she won the 1970 Eurovision Song Contest with "All Kinds of Everything". It became a worldwide million-seller and launched her music career.
She entered politics in 1997, as Dana Rosemary Scallon, running unsuccessfully in the Irish presidential election, but later being elected as an MEP for Connacht–Ulster in 1999. Scallon was again an independent candidate in the Irish 2011 presidential election, but was eliminated on the first count.
Scallon served as a politician as a Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2004.
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Full filmography
- Top of the Pops (1964) as Self
- Eurovision Song Contest (1956) as Self - Contestant
- Celebrity Mastermind (2003) as Self - Contestant
- Die ZDF-Hitparade (1969) as Self
- Cilla (1968) as Self
- Seaside Special (1975)
- Sez Les (1969)
- Pilgrimage (2018) as Self
- The Meaning of Life (2009) as Self
- Celebrity Bainisteoir (2008) as Herself
- Michael Barrymore's Saturday Night Out (1988) as Self
- Those Were the Days (2011) as Self
- Summertime Special (1981)
- Flight of the Doves (1971) as Sheila
- Who Do You Think You Are? (2008) as Herself
- Night Music (1982) as Self (guest)
- Dawson and Friends (1977) as Self
- When Eurovision Goes Horribly Wrong (2018) as Self
- The Best of Eurovision in the 70s (2025) as Self
- Celebrity Jigs 'n' Reels (2006)
- Dana: The Original Derry Girl (2020) as Self
- Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music? (1973)