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Melanie Chisholm
January 12 1974- Place of birth: Whiston, Merseyside, England, UK
- Gender: Female
- Also known as: Mel C, Melanie C, Sporty Spice, Spice Girls, Melanie Jayne Chisholm
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.
Latest roles
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Orbital: Glastonbury 2024
Self
![Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC poster](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w276_and_h350_face//fVqyTiL1biW9x4tthxO6sfIkubd.jpg)
Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC
Self (archive footage)
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Sam Ryder Rocks New Year’s Eve
Self
![Queens for the Night poster](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w276_and_h350_face//XS2wxvrWZEFj1GA34KxzzvfkCr.jpg)
Queens for the Night
Self - Judge
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Spice Girls: 25 ans déjà, qui sont-elles vraiment?
Self (archive footage)
![RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs The World poster](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w276_and_h350_face//62tel7mkQN3n60W6UmDI6nsbkML.jpg)
RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs The World
Self - Guest Judge
![Spice Girls: How Girl Power Changed Britain poster](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w276_and_h350_face//6G1XeKn7dKX2PQZRHVKgCH2fWbX.jpg)
Spice Girls: How Girl Power Changed Britain
Self - Sporty Spice
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Spice Girls at the BBC
Self - Sporty Spice
![When Ruby Wax Met... poster](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w276_and_h350_face//eIkRnpnGygYbfPqrCBtPUTKtzkH.jpg)
When Ruby Wax Met...
Self - Sporty Spice (archive footage)
![Name That Tune poster](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w276_and_h350_face//eB0p59u9M7ESzmh6gtVHuVFziPQ.jpg)
Name That Tune
Self - Contestant
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