Watch the A-Z of Sheridan Smith (VIDEO)

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It's hard to believe, considering the breadth and depth of her glittering career, but Sheridan Smith is just 33. From Two Pints of Lager and The Royle Family to Mrs Biggs and Cilla, the Lincolnshire export has become one of British TV's top talents.

She's the girl next door, if the girl next door happened to have a remarkable gift for playing heartbreaking drama and rib-tickling comedy.

On Sunday, May 3, she's tackling probably her most challenging role to date, playing the late Lisa Lynch in BBC1's The C Word. It's the story of the life and death of a journalist who turned her cancer diagnosis into a poignant, funny and massively popular blog, Alright Tit.

Sheridan was Lisa's only choice of who would play her. After that kind of honour, we decided to provide our own...

Watch Sarah's A-Z of Sheridan Smith, above.

Patrick McLennan
Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.