Cilla Black

Known for ActingBorn 1943-05-27Died 2015-08-01Vauxhall, Liverpool, England, UK

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.Read more

Movies & web series

An Audience with Jimmy Tarbuck

Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC

Boom! Boom! The Best of the Original Basil Brush Show

The Day John Lennon Died

There's Only One Paul McCartney

The Brit Girls

Cilla

Benidorm

Produced by George Martin

The Two Ronnies

So Graham Norton

Cilla's World Of Comedy

The Goodies

The Moment of Truth

Never Mind the Buzzcocks

If These Walls Could Sing

Al Murray's Happy Hour

The Music of Lennon & McCartney

Ready Steady Go!

Christmas Night with the Stars

Blind Date

Room 101

Cilla at the BBC

Surprise, Surprise

The Ed Sullivan Show

Top of the Pops

Through the Keyhole

The Friday Night Project

Shindig!

Kate Garraway's Life Stories

Live & Kicking

Ferry Cross the Mersey

Cilla in Scandinavia

Work Is a 4-Letter Word

Alan Carr: Chatty Man

The Paul O'Grady Show

Wogan

An Audience with...

The Story of Light Entertainment

Cilla's Comedy Six

The Alan Titchmarsh Show

The One Show

Alfie Darling

Loose Women

Seaside Special

Burt Bacharach at the BBC

Our Cilla: The One and Only

Keith Lemon's LemonAid