Sheridan Smith two-part BBC drama "The 7.39". In March 2014, she appeared in the ITV crime drama "The Widower" as the first wife of serial killer Malcolm Webster. Later that year, she featured in the series "Who Do You Think You Are?" and played Cilla Black in the three-part ITV drama series "Cilla". In 2015 she starred as cancer patient Lisa Lynch in the one-off BBC drama "The C Word" and as policewoman Jo Gillespie in the three-part ITV drama "Black Work", which was nominated for a National Television Award in 2016. Smith narrated the reality series "" from 2015. The show
Malcolm Webster (murderer) had been driving while Claire was a passenger and their car ended up in a ditch. Following Webster's conviction, Claire's family fought to have the inscription on her original headstone replaced with one that bore her maiden name and omitted any reference to her marriage (her original headstone stated "with loving thoughts of my dear wife"). Peter Morris, her brother, argued that it was "offensive" to have her married name on the headstone "as the marriage was designed towards murder." The Council originally informed her family that Webster owned the grave and consequently they would have to seek his permission