You’d be forgiven for not realising this image was of Sheridan Smith.
The 34-year-old British actress looks unrecognisable in the first-look image of the brand new BBC drama The Moorside Project.
She is taking on the role of Julie Bushby, the woman who led the search for Shannon Matthews after she was kidnapped and helped captive by her mother Karen and uncle Michael Donovan in 2008.
Speaking of the upcoming drama, which began filming this week, Sheridan said: ‘The story is a fascinating mixture of what I thought I knew and a whole lot more that I had no idea about.
‘The themes of faith and trust in human nature, and the way the whole community… Read the full story