Sheridan’s Cilla wins her a 2nd Bafta nomination
SHERIDAN Smith is in line for a TV Bafta for her role as singer Cilla Black, it was revealed yesterday.
The nomination comes a year after Cilla was honoured at the same awards for her 50- year television career.
Sheridan, 33 – who won her first Bafta in 2013 for playing Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs’ wife – portrayed the Blind Date star in the critically acclaimed ITV series Cilla.
She has again been nominated for the leading actress prize, alongside Keeley Hawes for Line Of Duty, Sarah Lancashire for Happy Valley and Georgina Campbell for Murdered By My Boyfriend, all crime dramas.
Other big names include Benedict Cumberbatch, 38, up for leading actor for his performance in Sherlock.
Cumberbatch, who lost out on a best actor Oscar earlier this year, is named alongside Toby Jones for Marvellous, James Nesbitt for The Missing and Jason Watkins for The Lost Honour Of Christopher Jefferies.
Sheridan’s portrayal of Cilla was so popular it propelled the Scouse singer’s 1964 number one, Anyone Who Had A Heart, back into the charts.
BBC dramas dominate – with Happy Valley, Marvellous, The Missing and Line Of Duty leading the way with three nods each.
Ken Stott’s role in The Missing has won him a best supporting actor nomination alongside Adeel Akhtar from Channel 4’ s Utopia and Stephen Rea for BBC’s The Honourable Woman.
Line Of Duty’s Vicky McClure is nominated for best supporting actress alongside Amanda Redman for ITV’s Tommy Cooper biopic and Charlotte Spencer for E4’ s Glue.
Strictly Come Dancing’s Claudia Winkleman is nominated for best entertainment performance.
The Baftas are in London on May 10.