Cilla Black

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1943-05-27

Deathday 2015-08-01 (72 years old)

Place of Birth Vauxhall, Liverpool, England, UK

Also Known As Priscilla Maria Veronica White

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.

Known For

Actor

2023
Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC

as Self (archive footage)

2023
Burt Bacharach at the BBC

as Self (archive footage)

2022
If These Walls Could Sing

as Self (archive footage)

2015
Cilla at the BBC

as Self - Performer

2013
Through the Keyhole

as Self - Panelist

2009
...Sings the Beatles

as Self (archive footage)

2009
2006
The One Show

as Self

2004
Brian Epstein: Inside the Fifth Beatle

as Self (archive footage)

1998
1998
1997
The Brit Girls

as Self (archive footage)

1996
1995
The Beatles Anthology

as Self (archive footage)

1994
An Audience with Jimmy Tarbuck

as Self - Audience Member

1994
Room 101

as Self

1993
The Ark

as Herself

1984
Surprise, Surprise

as Self - Presenter

1982
Wogan

as Self

1971
Disco

as Self

1969
TV Intim

as Self

1968
Work Is a 4-Letter Word

as Betty Dorrick

1968
Cilla

as Self

1966
1965
Ferry Cross the Mersey

as Cilla Black

1964
Shindig!

as Self - Singer

1964
1963
1948
The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self - Singer

Sound

1975
Alfie Darling

as Theme Song Performance