Lulu

Actor

Lulu

Born November 3, 1948 in Lennoxtown, Stirlingshire, Scotland, UK10 films

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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To Sir, with Love posterFirst watchTo Sir, with Love19677.4as Barbara 'Babs' PeggA major role in one of the best-rated films of their career.A British Guianese engineer starts a job as a high school teacher in London’s East End, where his uninterested and delinquent pupils are in desperate need of attention and care.View film

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Filmography

10 films as actor
  1. 2024Arthur's WhiskySusan
  2. 2016Absolutely Fabulous: The MovieLulu
  3. 2000Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?Irene Smith
  4. 1996To Sir, with Love IIBarbara Pegg
  5. 1990Men in Love
  6. 1982AliceAlice (singing voice)
  7. 1981An Audience with Dudley Moore
  8. 1974The Cherry PickerNancy
  9. 1970Cucumber CastleLulu the cook
  10. 1967To Sir, with LoveBarbara 'Babs' Pegg