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Petula Clark is a Actor British born on 15 november 1932 at Epsom (United-kingdom)

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Birth name Petula Sally Olwen Clark
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 15 november 1932 (91 years) at Epsom (United-kingdom)
Awards Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

Petula Sally Olwen Clark, CBE (born 15 November 1932) is an English singer, actress and composer whose career has spanned seven decades.

Clark's professional career began as an entertainer on BBC Radio during World War II. During the 1950s she started recording in French and having international success in both French and English, with such songs as "The Little Shoemaker", "Baby Lover", "With All My Heart" and "Prends Mon Cœur". During the 1960s she became known globally for her popular upbeat hits, including "Downtown", "I Know a Place", "My Love", "A Sign of the Times", "I Couldn't Live Without Your Love", "Colour My World", "This Is My Song" and "Don't Sleep in the Subway". The timing and popularity of these songs caused Clark to be dubbed the First Lady of the British Invasion. She has sold more than 68 million records throughout her career.

Biography

In 1955 Clark became linked romantically with Joe "Mr Piano" Henderson. Speculation that the couple planned to marry became rife. However, with the increasing glare of being in the public spotlight, and Clark's growing fame – her career in France was just beginning – Henderson, reportedly not wanting to end up as "Mr. Petula Clark," decided to end the relationship. Their professional relationship continued for a couple of years, culminating in the BBC Radio series Pet and Mr. Piano, the last time they worked together, although they remained on friendly terms. In 1962, he penned a ballad about their break-up, called "There's Nothing More To Say", for Clark's LP In Other Words.

In October 1957 Clark was invited to appear at the Paris Olympia for the Europe N°1 live radio show Musicorama. The next day she was invited to the office of Vogue Records' chairman Léon Cabat to discuss recording in French and working in France. It was there that she met the publicist Claude Wolff, to whom she was attracted immediately; and, when she was told that he would work with her if she recorded in French, she agreed.

In June 1961, Clark married Wolff, first in a civil ceremony in Paris, then a religious one in her native England. Wanting to escape the restrictions of child stardom imposed upon her by the British public and eager to escape the influence of her father, she moved to France, where she and Wolff had two daughters, Barbara Michelle and Catherine Nathalie, in quick succession. Their son Patrick was born later, in 1972.

Since 2012, Clark has lived for most of the year in Geneva, Switzerland; she also has a holiday chalet in the French Alps, where she likes to ski, and a pied-à-terre in London's Chelsea. In January 2012, a Facebook campaign was launched to petition for a Damehood for Clark, to celebrate the year of both her 80th birthday and the Diamond Jubilee.

Filmography

Medal for the General (1944)
Strawberry Roan (1945)
Murder in Reverse (1945)
I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
Trouble at Townsend (1946)
London Town (1946)
Vice Versa (1948)
Easy Money (1948)
Here Come the Huggetts (1948)
Vote for Huggett (1949)
The Huggetts Abroad (1949)
Don't Ever Leave Me (1949)
The Romantic Age (1949)
Dance Hall (1950)
White Corridors (1951)
Madame Louise (1951)
The Card (1952)
Made in Heaven (1952)
The Runaway Bus (1954)
The Gay Dog (1954)
The Happiness of Three Women (1954)
Track the Man Down (1955)
That Woman Opposite (1957)
6.5 Special (1958)
À Couteaux Tirés (1964) (also composed score) (aka "Daggers Drawn" for the American release)
Finian's Rainbow (1968)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
Drôles de Zèbres (1977)
Never, Never Land (1980)
Sans famille (1981 French television miniseries)