Cilla (miniseries) nerves singing for Brian Epstein. A drama this good, with Smith in sparkling form, knows it can take its time to flourish." The Guardian wrote: "The third, and best, reason why Cilla is so watchable is Sheridan Smith. It's one of those extraordinary performances, like Julie Walters as Mo Mowlam, when an actress does more than play a real character; she becomes her, to the extent that it's hard for the viewer not to forget they're not actually watching a young Cilla Black. She sounds like her, too. I'd be interested to know what someone more qualified to judge (an
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