Dana
Acting • Born 1951-08-30
Biography
Dana Rosemary Scallon known professionally as Dana, is an Irish singer and songwriter. While still a schoolgirl she won the 1970 Eurovision Song Contest with "All Kinds of Everything". It became a worldwide million-seller and launched her music career. She entered politics in 1997, as Dana Rosemary Scallon, running unsuccessfully in the Irish presidential election, but later being elected as an MEP for Connacht–Ulster in 1999. Scallon was again an independent candidate in the Irish 2011 presidential election, but was eliminated on the first count. Scallon served as a politician as a Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2004.
Filmography
20 credits
Flight of the Doves
Movie • 1971
Sheila
When Eurovision Goes Horribly Wrong
Movie • 2018
Self
Dana: The Original Derry Girl
Movie • 2020
Self
The Best of Eurovision in the 70s
Movie • 2025
Self
Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?
Movie • 1973
Top of the Pops
TV • 1964
Self
Celebrity Jigs 'n' Reels
TV • 2006
Summertime Special
TV • 1981
Cilla
TV • 1968
Self
Sez Les
TV • 1969
Michael Barrymore's Saturday Night Out
TV • 1988
Self
Seaside Special
TV • 1975
Pilgrimage
TV • 2018
Self
Celebrity Mastermind
TV • 2003
Self - Contestant
Who Do You Think You Are?
TV • 2008
Herself
Die ZDF-Hitparade
TV • 1969
Self
Celebrity Bainisteoir
TV • 2008
Herself
Eurovision Song Contest
TV • 1956
Self - Contestant
Those Were the Days
TV • 2011
Self
Night Music
TV • 1982
Self (guest)