– Her music video If I Could Turn Back Time was the first video to be banned by MTV.
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– Legally changed her name from Cherilyn Sarkisian LaPierre Bono Allman to simply Cher.
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– Likes to step out with men younger than her, whilst her son Elijah prefers older women.
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– Nominated for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program at Emmy Awards for Cher: Live in Concert from Las Vegas (2000)
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– Nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV at Golden Globe Awards for IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK (1997)
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– Nominated for Best Actress at BAFTA Awards for MOONSTRUCK (1989)
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– Nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama at Golden Globe Awards for MASK (1986)
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– Nominated for Best Supporting Actress at BAFTA Awards for SILKWOOD (1985)
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– Nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role at Academy Awards for SILKWOOD (1984)
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– Nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Motion Picture at Golden Globe Awards for COME BACK TO THE FIVE AND DIME, JIMMY DEAN, JIMMY DEAN (1983)
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– Nominated for Outstanding Comedy-Variety or Music Series at Emmy Awards for Cher (1975)
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– Nominated for Outstanding Music-Variety Series at Emmy Awards for The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour (1974)
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– Nominated for Outstanding Variety Musical Series at Emmy Awards for The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour (1973)
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– Nominated for Outstanding Variety Series - Musical at Emmy Awards for The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour (1972)
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– Nominated for Outstanding Single Program - Variety or Musical - Variety and Popular Music at Emmy Awards for The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour (1972)
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– In THE PLAYER (1992) Cher appears at the awards ceremony in a bright red dress, despite the invitation specifying black and white only. In real life, Cher never wears red.
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– Holds the record for longest dryspell between number 1 hits: 1974 (Dark Lady) to 1998 (Believe)
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– Cher was a backing singer on the Righteous Brothers' 'You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling'
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– When Cher was thirteen years old, she drove her mother's car from Toluka Lake all the way to Hollywood.
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– When she was a child, Cher back-flipped off her swing set and landed on her sister's box of crayons. She injured her foot so badly, the doctors thought she might never walk properly again.
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– Sonny & Cher were not legally married until 1967.
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– Cher named her daughter after a film that she and Sonny were involved with when Chastity was conceived. Cher chose Chastity's middle name (Sun) so that she could also be named after her father, Sonny.
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