Lulu
Known for: Acting
Born: November 3, 1948
Place of birth: Lennoxtown, Stirlingshire, Scotland, UK
Lulu Kennedy-Cairns, (born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie; 3 November 1948), best known by her stage name Lulu, is a Scottish singer, actress, and television personality who has been successful in the entertainment business from the 1960s. She is internationally identified, especially by North American audiences, with the song "To Sir with Love" from the film of the same name and with the title song to the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun. In European countries, she is also widely known for her Eurovision Song Contest winning entry "Boom Bang-a-Bang" and in the UK for her first hit "Shout", which was performed at the closing ceremony of the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
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Filmography
40 movies · 66 TV shows, newest first
7.7
Twiggy
2025
5.7
Arthur's Whisky
2024
7.7
Lulu at the BBC
2023
7.3
The Sound of 007
2022
7.0
Sidney
2022
7.3
Celebrity Lingo
2022
NR
ABBA V Queen
2022
7.0
My Old School
2022
6.5
St Andrew’s Day at the BBC
2021
5.6
Michael McIntyre's The Wheel
2020
7.6
The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
2020
7.1
RuPaul's Drag Race UK
2019
7.0
Rip It Up
2018
7.0
My Generation
2017
8.2
Beside Bowie - The Mick Ronson Story
2017
5.3
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
2016
NR
The Great Comic Relief Bake Off
2013
NR
Sir Jimmy Savile: As It Happened
2011
5.2
The Jonathan Ross Show
2011NR
Eurovision: Your Country Needs Blue
2011NR
Rewind The 60s
2010
NR
…Sings Neil Diamond
2010
3.8
Live from Studio Five
20095.0
The Hour
2009NR
Eurovision: Jade's Story
2009
6.7
Let's Dance for Comic Relief
2009
6.7
Celebrity Juice
20084.5
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007
4.4
The One Show
2006
NR
Full Length & Fabulous: The Beckhams' World Cup Party
2006NR
Davina
2006
6.3
Nigella
2005
6.0
The Friday Night Project
2005
7.0
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004
5.1
The Paul O'Grady Show
2004
NR
The Best of So Graham Norton
2004
7.9
QI
2003
5.0
American Idol
2002
NR
An Audience with Lulu
2002
5.3
V Graham Norton
2002
9.0
Boom! Boom! The Best of the Original Basil Brush Show
2001
NR
Top of the Pops: The True Story
2001
6.2
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
2000NR
Red Alert with The National Lottery
1999
7.0
It’s Lulu
1999
NR
Parkinson
1998
8.0
The Brit Girls
1997
6.1
Elton John: Tantrums & Tiaras
1997
6.4
To Sir, with Love II
1996
7.1
TFI Friday
1996
7.0
In the Best Possible Taste: A Tribute to Kenny Everett
1995
NR
Fully Booked
1995
8.5
Jools' Annual Hootenanny
1994
6.0
Live & Kicking
1993
5.8
GMTV
1993
7.6
Absolutely Fabulous
19926.5
Terry Wogan's Friday Night
1992
7.2
Heartbeat
1992
4.7
Men in Love
1990
6.0
Perfect Scoundrels
1990
9.0
Michael Barrymore's Saturday Night Out
1988
5.5
The Dame Edna Experience
1987
6.7
The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole
1987
7.0
Women in Rock
1986
6.8
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾
1985
6.4
Super Gran
1985
6.5
Live From Her Majesty's
1983
6.3
Alice
1982
7.3
The Kenny Everett Television Show
1982
6.0
An Audience with Dudley Moore
1981
NR
Summertime Special
1981
4.0
Bananas
1981
NR
The Cannon & Ball Show
1979
5.3
An Audience with...
1978
7.0
Dawson and Friends
1977
9.0
Lulu
1975
6.5
The Man with the Golden Gun
1974
6.3
The Cherry Picker
1974
8.0
Musikladen
1972
NR
Pebble Mill at One
1972
7.8
The Two Ronnies
1971
6.3
Cucumber Castle
19709.0
The Don Knotts Show
19709.0
The Ray Stevens Show
1970
8.3
Monty Python's Flying Circus
1969
6.5
The Johnny Cash Show
1969
6.7
This Is Tom Jones
1969
6.8
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
19699.0
Happening For Lulu
1968
6.0
The Ugliest Girl in Town
1968NR
Hold On: It's The Dave Clark Five
1968
9.0
Lulu's Back in Town
1968
7.4
To Sir, with Love
1967NR
4-3-2-1 Hot and Sweet
1966
7.0
The Music of Lennon & McCartney
1965
3.0
U.K. Swings Again
1965
3.8
Gonks Go Beat
1965
5.0
The Hollywood Palace
1964
6.6
Top of the Pops
1964
7.0
Ready Steady Go!
1963
7.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
5.8
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
7.0
Christmas Night with the Stars
1958
7.4
Eurovision Song Contest
1956
NR
60s Legends in Concert
—7.0
…Sings Dylan
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