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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 12, 1974
Place of Birth
Whiston, Merseyside, England, UK
Also Known As
- Mel C
- Sporty Spice
- Spice Girls
- Melanie Jayne Chisholm
- Melanie Chisholm
Melanie C
0.8 Popularity
Biography
Melanie Jayne Chisholm, professionally known as Melanie C, is an English singer, songwriter, entrepreneur, actress and television personality. She is one of the five members of the Spice Girls, in which she was nicknamed Sporty Spice. Chisholm began her solo career in late 1998 by singing with Canadian rock singer Bryan Adams on the worldwide hit "When You're Gone". Melanie was born in Whiston, Merseyside, as the only child in the family. She later moved to Widnes, Cheshire, at a young age. Her parents married on 12 January 1971 and separated in 1978, when young Chisholm was four-and-a-half years old. Her father, Alan Chisholm, worked as a fitter at the Otis Elevator Company. Her mother, Joan O'Neill, worked as a secretary and PA and has been singing in music bands since she was 14. Chisholm was raised at Widnes, Cheshire, where she attended Brookvale Junior School and Fairfield High School. Following school, she studied for a diploma course in dance, singing, drama, and musical theatre at the Doreen Bird College of Performing Arts in Sidcup, Southeast London. During college, she replied to an advert in The Stage by Chris and Bob Herbert, who were looking to form a new girl group, later to become the Spice Girls. She left college just short of completing her three-year course and gained teaching qualifications in tap and modern theatre dance with the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing.
Known For
9.0
Self (archive footage)
Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC
2023
8.0
Self
Sam Ryder Rocks New Year’s Eve
2022
8.0
Self - Judge
Queens for the Night
2022
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Spice Girls: 25 ans déjà, qui sont-elles vraiment?
2022
6.1
Self - Guest Judge
RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs The World
2022
6.0
Self - Sporty Spice
Spice Girls: How Girl Power Changed Britain
2021
7.6
Self - Sporty Spice
Spice Girls at the BBC
2021
6.7
Self - Sporty Spice (archive footage)
When Ruby Wax Met...
2021
6.8
Self - Contestant
Name That Tune
2021
0.0
Self
Royal Variety Performance 2020
2020
Credits
Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC
as Self (archive footage)
2023
9.0
Sam Ryder Rocks New Year’s Eve
as Self
2022
8.0
Queens for the Night
as Self - Judge
2022
8.0
Spice Girls: 25 ans déjà, qui sont-elles vraiment?
as Self (archive footage)
2022
0.0
RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs The World
as Self - Guest Judge
2022
6.1
Spice Girls: How Girl Power Changed Britain
as Self - Sporty Spice
2021
6.0
Spice Girls at the BBC
as Self - Sporty Spice
2021
7.6
When Ruby Wax Met...
as Self - Sporty Spice (archive footage)
2021
6.7
Name That Tune
as Self - Contestant
2021
6.8
Royal Variety Performance 2020
as Self
2020
0.0
Melanie C: Colour and Light Stream
as Self
2020
10.0
Served! With Jade Thirlwall
as Self
2020
10.0
La semaine des 4 Julie
as Self
2020
2.0
Melanie C ft. Sink The Pink - Live At The Troxy
as Self
2019
10.0
Celebrity Gogglebox
as Self
2019
6.9
The Voice Kids
as Self - Coach
2017
6.3
John Bishop: In Conversation with...
as Self
2016
7.0
The 90s: Ten Years That Changed the World
as Self - Sporty Spice (archive footage) (uncredited)
2015
8.7
Asia's Got Talent
as Self - Judge
2015
0.0
The Nation's Favourite Queen Song
as Self
2014
0.0
Melanie C: Sporty's 40 - Live At Shepherds Bush
as Self
2014
9.3
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
as Self
2014
7.1
Duck Quacks Don't Echo
as Self
2014
5.7
The Sarah Millican Television Programme - Best of Series 1-2
as Self
2013
0.0
The Spice Girls Story: Viva Forever!
as Self - Sporty Spice
2012
8.7
Jesus Christ Superstar - Live Arena Tour
as Mary Magdalane
2012
7.4
London 2012 Olympic Games
as Self
2012
0.0
Keith Lemon: The Film
as Mel C
2012
2.9
London 2012 Olympic Closing Ceremony: A Symphony of British Music
as Self - Sporty Spice
2012
6.5
Superstar
as Self - Chief Judge
2012
0.0
Melanie C: The Sea Live
as Self
2012
10.0
Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu
as Self - Interval Act
2012
0.0
Klein gegen Groß - Das unglaubliche Duell
as Self
2011
6.5
Melanie C: Live at the Hard Rock Cafe
as Self
2009
8.7
🎬
SRF bi de Lüt Live
as Self
2009
0.0
Celebrity Juice
as Self
2008
6.5
🎬
Keith Lemon's Very Brilliant World Tour
as Self
2008
0.0
Spice Girls: Giving You Everything
as Self - Sporty Spice
2007
9.7
Spice Girls: The Return of the Spice Girls Tour
as Self - Sporty Spice
2007
7.8
Spice Girls: Zig-A-Zig-Ahhh Interviews
as Self - Sporty Spice
2007
5.5
Spice Girls: Greatest Hits
as Self - Sporty Spice
2007
10.0
🎬
The Truth About Size Zero
as Self
2007
0.0
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
7.2
Melanie C: Live Hits
as Self
2006
10.0
Robins
as Self - Guest
2006
7.8
8 Out of 10 Cats
as Self
2005
7.1
Dancing with the Stars
as Self - Contestant
2005
6.0
Spice Girls: Unauthorized
as Self - Sporty Spice
2005
10.0
The Friday Night Project
as Self - Guest Host
2005
5.8
Who Do You Think You Are?
as Self
2004
6.7
The Paul O'Grady Show
as Self
2004
4.6
Top of the Pops Saturday
as Self
2003
0.0
The Games
as Self
2003
6.0
Bo' Selecta!
as Self
2002
7.1
Power Girls
as Self (archive footage)
2002
0.0
V Graham Norton
as Self
2002
5.0
Bryan Adams: Live at Slane Castle
as Self - Guest
2001
5.9
The Saturday Show
as Self
2001
1.0
Raw Spice
as Self - Sporty Spice
2001
7.8
Spice Girls: The Live One
as Self - Sporty Spice
1999
10.0
Melanie C: Liverpool To Leicester Square Tour - Live in Munich
as Self
1999
10.0
Melanie C: Northern Star Documentary
as Self
1999
10.0
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
as Self
1999
4.2
Spice Girls: Back In Britain!
as Self - Sporty Spice
1998
10.0
Spice Girls: Live at Wembley Stadium
as Self - Sporty Spice
1998
6.6
🎬
CD:UK
as Self
1998
5.0
Spice Girls in America: A Tour Story
as Self - Sporty Spice
1998
10.0
Spice Girls: Spiceworld Tour Live in Madrid
as Self - Sporty Spice
1998
10.0
Spice Girls: Girls Talk!
as Self - Sporty Spice
1998
9.0
Spice Exposed
as Self - Sporty Spice (archive footage)
1998
7.3
Spice Girls: Live In Concert - Wild!
as Self
1998
7.7
Spice World
as Melanie C - Sporty Spice
1997
4.9
An Audience with the Spice Girls
as Self
1997
10.0
Spice Girls: One Hour of Girl Power!
as Self - Sporty Spice
1997
9.3
Spice Girls: Girl Power! Live in Istanbul
as Self - Sporty Spice
1997
7.8
An Audience with Elton John
as Self
1997
0.0
The View
as Self - Guest
1997
4.5
🎬
Leute heute
as Self
1997
3.0
Taff
as self
1997
3.2
🎬
Spice Power
as Self - Sporty Spice (archive footage)
1997
0.0
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
as Self
1996
7.0
🎬
Ruby Wax Meets
as Self - Sporty Spice
1996
6.0
The Frank Skinner Show
as Self
1995
7.5
Soccer AM
as Self
1995
6.0
Victoria's Secret Fashion Show
as Self - Sporty Spice
1995
7.6
Room 101
as Self
1994
6.3
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
as Self
1992
5.4
Le monde est à vous
as Self - Sporty Spice
1987
0.0
MTV Video Music Awards
as Self - Sporty Spice
1984
7.6
Wetten, dass..?
as Self - Sporty Spice
1981
5.3
An Audience with...
as Self - Sporty Spice
1978
5.3
An Audience with...
as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
1978
5.3
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Sporty Spice - Musical Guest
1975
6.9
Great Performances
as Self - Sporty Spice
1971
5.3
Top of the Pops
as Self - Sporty Spice
1964
6.6
Top of the Pops
as Self - Host/ Performer
1964
6.6
Top of the Pops
as Self - Host
1964
6.6
Bambi-Verleihung
as Self - Sporty Spice
1948
9.0