The best Sheridan Smith movies and TV shows to watch if you loved her in I Fought the Law

Release date: out now, NOW

This six-episode comedy stars Smith as Rosie Molloy, a woman addicted to everything: smoking, alcohol, Terry’s Chocolate Oranges, Xanax, Adderall, caffeine… After an embarrassing incident at her brother Joey's wedding, she wakes up in hospital and decides to change her life by ‘giving up everything’.

What follows is the realisation that her addictions are affecting everyone around her – family, friends and work – but that they may not be the only problem. The show asks, if Rosie really does give up everything, will she still be Rosie?

Release date: out now, BBC iPlayer, ITVX Premium

Telling the harrowing true story of four young gay men, who were murdered in similar circumstances between 2014 and 2015 in Barking, East London, this series stars Smith as the mother of one man.

While the police blame their deaths on overdoses, their loved ones are unconvinced and try to find out the truth. Keep your tissues at the ready for this one.

Release date: out now, BBC iPlayer, NOW

What's occurrin'? As Essex and Wales collide in this comedy classic, Smith plays Smithy's immature, but loving, younger sister. Catch her in series two and three, as well as 2024's special.

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Do we even need to introduce one of the most iconic sitcoms of all time? The comedy series portrays the life of a working-class family in the late '90s and early 2000s, with most scenes around the TV in the family's living room.

Smith plays son Antony's first girlfriend from series two and through series 3, as well as in the 2000 Christmas special.

Release date: out now, Disney+, Netflix, Prime Video

Running for ten series, Benidorm is a laugh-a-minute comedy featuring an ensemble cast of holiday makers and staff at the Solana, an all-inclusive hotel in Benidorm, Spain.

Each series is set over a week, with many of the cast returning year after year, with Smith taking a main role in series three.

Release date: out now, Channel 5, Paramount+

Based on Lucy Clarke's bestselling novel of the same name, this thriller sees Smith play Lori board a plane to Fiji, while sister Erin skips the flight after the pair have a huge fight. The flight never reaches its destination, and months later no wreckage has been found, but Erin refuses to believe that her sister is gone.

When Erin learns that Lori’s credit card has been used on a remote Fijian island, later recognising the plane’s pilot on CCTV, she boards a plane to Fiji to find out the truth.

Release date: out now, BBC iPlayer, ITVX

This long-running comedy stars Alan Davies as the eponymous amateur sleuth Jonathan Creek, a creative consultant to a stage musician who also unpicks the truth behind seemingly complicated and seemingly supernatural mysteries.

You'll find Smith as another paranormal investigator, joining forces with Creek in the 2010 and 2013 specials.

Release date: out now, ITVX

Smith won a BAFTA for her role in this retelling of a true story. Mrs Biggs follows the actress as an ordinary girl turned gangster's moll, Charmian Biggs. Her husband, Ronnie, took part in the Great Train Robbery of ’63.

Release date: available to rent or buy now

A love letter to the ladies' bathroom, Powder Room is comedy film also starring Jaime Winstone, Kate Nash, Oona Chaplin and Riann Steele.

Playing Sam, whose life gets turned upside down on a big night out, the film starts as she's reunited with her old college friends. Forced to re-evaluate her life, she makes up a façade to convince everyone that she has it all. But as cider and cigarettes break down the walls she's put up, everyone is forced to reassess what they want from life.

Release date: out now, Prime Video with STUDIOCANAL

A sequel to the classic tale, this 2022 movie is set in 1944 as a fresh wave of bombs fell on Britain during WWII. Playing schoolmistress Annie, the Watts siblings are evacuated to Oakworth in Yorkshire to Annie's mother's home.

A great watch for the whole family.

Release date: out now, NOW, Prime Video

Adapted from the stage play of the same name, this film follows a retirement home with a difference: it specifically caters for former artistes, including one-time opera singers Cissy (Pauline Collins), Reginald (Tom Courtenay) and Wilf (Billy Connolly).

The trio's annual concert is complicated by the arrival of the fourth member of their quartet, Jean (Maggie Smith), a die-hard diva who also happens to be Reginald's ex-wife. But as they say, 'the show must go on.'