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Lulu

1948 - Today

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Lulu Kennedy-Cairns (born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie; 3 November 1948) is a Scottish singer, songwriter, actress and television personality whose career has spanned six decades. Her debut single, a cover version of The Isley Brothers song "Shout", reached the top ten of the UK Singles Chart in 1964. In 1967, she rose to international prominence after appearing in the film To Sir, with Love, singing the theme song, the melody written by Mark London, which topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States for five consecutive weeks and became the America's biggest-selling single of 1967. During the 1960s, she achieved another five top-ten hits on the UK Singles Chart, including "Boom Bang-a-Bang", which won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1969. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lulu is the 3,238th most popular actor (down from 2,523rd in 2019), the 2,970th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,270th in 2019) and the 402nd most popular British Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Lulu ranks 3,238 out of 13,578. Before her are Keith David, Ranveer Singh, Harry Guardino, Yuri Lyubimov, Phyllida Law, and Chelsea Field. After her are Nadja Tiller, Anna Faris, Eva May, Béatrice Dalle, Gloria Foster, and Cha Eun-woo.

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Among people born in 1948, Lulu ranks 353. Before her are Pam Ferris, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Ted Nugent, Giuseppe Petrocchi, Stefania Casini, and Gioconda Belli. After her are Aleksandr Baryshnikov, Jim Walton, Felix Kulov, Norbert Lammert, Rick James, and Meir Shalev.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Lulu ranks 2,971 out of 8,785. Before her are Richard Swinburne (1934), Stafford Beer (1926), Phyllida Law (1932), Ernest Marsden (1889), Carl Cox (1962), and Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth (1914). After her are Amelia Dyer (1837), David Johnson (1951), Mary Beale (1633), Limahl (1958), William Hunter (1718), and George Shearing (1919).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Lulu ranks 402. Before her are Tommy Flanagan (1965), Eunice Gayson (1928), Tom Hollander (1967), Jonny Lee Miller (1972), Rita Tushingham (1942), and Phyllida Law (1932). After her are Delroy Lindo (1952), Matthew Garber (1956), Richard Armitage (1971), Felicity Jones (1983), Ruth Wilson (1982), and Tim McInnerny (1956).

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