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.
Filmography
all 68
self 52
TV Shows 37
Movies 31
Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC (2023)
Burt Bacharach at the BBC (2023)
If These Walls Could Sing (2023)
Our Cilla: The One and Only (2021)
Our Cilla (2015)
Cilla at the BBC (2015)
The Native Hue of Resolution (2013)
Produced By George Martin (2012)
Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes (2011)
The Day John Lennon Died (2010)
...Sings the Beatles (2009)
Alan Carr: Chatty Man (2009)
Feast (2009)
Kate Garraway's Life Stories (2009)
The Alan Titchmarsh Show (2007)
Benidorm (2007)
Al Murray's Happy Hour (2007)
The One Show (2006)
The Story of Light Entertainment (2006)
Eating With... (2006)
Cliff Richard: Castles in the Air (2004)
The Paul O'Grady Show (2004)
Star Portraits with Rolf Harris (2004)
Brian Epstein: Inside the Fifth Beatle (2004)
There's Only One Paul McCartney (2002)
Boom! Boom! The Best of the Original Basil Brush Show (2001)
The Moment of Truth (1998)
So Graham Norton (1998)
The Abbey Road Story (1998)
The Brit Girls (1997)
Never Mind the Buzzcocks (1996)
The Beatles Anthology (1995)
An Audience with Jimmy Tarbuck (1994)
Room 101 (1994)
The Ark (1993)
Mr. Bean: Blind Date (1993)
Blind Date (1985)
Surprise, Surprise (1984)
Cilla Black's Christmas Eve (1983)
Wogan (1982)
An Audience with... (1978)
Cilla's World Of Comedy (1976)
Alfie Darling (1975)
Seaside Special (1975)
Cilla's Comedy Six (1975)
Cilla's Comedy Six (1975)
The World Of Cilla (1973)
Cilla in Scandinavia (1971)
The Two Ronnies (1971)
Disco (1971)
The Goodies (1970)
Pop Go the Sixties! (1969)
TV Intim (1969)
The Frankie Howerd Show (1968)
Work Is a 4-Letter Word (1968)
Cilla (1968)
Cilla at the Savoy (1966)
4-3-2-1 Hot and Sweet (1966)
The Music of Lennon & McCartney (1965)
New Musical Express Poll Winners Concert (1965)
Ferry Cross the Mersey (1965)
Shindig! (1964)
Top of the Pops (1964)
Ready Steady Go! (1963)
The Bruce Forsyth Show (1959)
Christmas Night with the Stars (1958)
The Ed Sullivan Show (1948)
60s Legends in Concert
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1943-05-27
Deathday2015-08-01 (72 years old)
Birth PlaceVauxhall, United Kingdom
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
Also Known AsPriscilla Maria Veronica White
AwardsOfficer of the Order of the British Empire
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