She’s played plenty of embattled mothers in her time, but Sheridan Smith says her latest role was the toughest yet - because she’s now got a child herself.
In new ITV drama No Return, the actress plays ordinary mum Kathy, who finds herself trapped on the holiday from hell.
Sheridan, whose son Billy is nearly two, says she wept for the entire time during the read-through of the “high angst” series.