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
Dan Stevens Dan Stevens Daniel Jonathan Stevens (born 10 October 1982) is an English actor. He first drew international attention for his role as Matthew Crawley in the ITV acclaimed period drama series "Downton Abbey" (2010–12). He also starred as David in the thriller film "The Guest" (2014), Sir Lancelot in the adventure film "" (2014), The Beast/Prince in Disney's live action adaptation of "Beauty and the Beast" (2017), Lorin Willis in the biographical legal drama "Marshall" (2017), and Charles Dickens in the biographical drama "The Man Who Invented Christmas" (2017). Since 2017, he has starred as David Haller in the FX