Cilla (miniseries) Cilla (miniseries) Cilla is a British drama television miniseries about the early career of Cilla Black. It was broadcast in three parts on ITV, and began on 15 September 2014 with Sheridan Smith playing the starring role. Smith was highly praised for her performance. Following Cilla Black's death in August 2015, the series was broadcast again on ITV between 4–6 August 2015, as well as repeats on ITV Encore. The series is based around Black's hometown of Liverpool and follows her rise to fame from 1960 amateur appearances in clubs, her relationships with Bobby Willis and Brian Epstein to the
Sonya Walger Walger is conversational in French and fluent in Spanish, as her father is Argentinian. Walger began her career on British television. In 1998, she guest starred in an episode of ITV crime series, "Midsomer Murders". She had the recurring role in the BBC 1 sitcom "Goodnight Sweetheart" in 1999, and appeared in two episodes of the crime/drama "The Vice". Also in 1999, she played the daughter of newspaper magnate Max Van der Vuurst, Hilde, in the "Heat of the Sun" story "The Sport of Kings". The following year, Walger made her film debut in the biographical drama "Eisenstein". In 2001,