Introduction
Sarah Smart (born 3 March 1977) is an English actress.
Early life
Smart was born in Birmingham, England. She was a pupil of St Paul's School for Girls in Birmingham.
Career
Her career started as a child, notably in the television series Woof! She is best known for a series of well-regarded television roles including Virginia Braithwaite, daughter of a lottery winning family in the comedy drama At Home with the Braithwaites. Sparkhouse (Red Production Company / BBC 2002); and her appearance in Jane Hall (Red Production Company / ITV1 2006) marked a fruitful link between Smart and television writer Sally Wainwright. Between 2008 and 2010, she was featured as Anne-Britt Hoglund in Wallander, six feature-length adaptations of Henning Mankell's Wallander novels, for the BBC. Smart has also been featured successfully in a number of radio dramas. In 2011, she appeared in a 2-part story for the sixth series of the BBC1 hit series Doctor Who giving a very positively received performance as the sympathetic 'villain' of The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People.
Selected filmography
- The Secret of Crickley Hall (2012)
- Death In Paradise (2011, TV series)
- Fast Freddie, The Widow and Me (2011, Christmas Special)
- The Man Who Crossed Hitler (2011, TV Movie)
- Doctor Who (2011, TV series)
- Midsomer Murders - Echoes of the Dead (2011)
- Monroe (2011 TV Drama)
- Agatha Christie's Marple (2009 TV series)
- Casualty 1909 (2009, TV series)
- Agatha Christie's Poirot - Mrs McGinty's Dead (2008)
- Wallander (2008, TV series)
- Casualty 1907 (2008, TV series)
- Ghosts (2007, Theatre)
- Five Days (2007, TV series)
- Jane Hall (2006, TV series)
- Casualty 1906 (2006, TV series)
- Funland (2005, TV series)
- Hildan Way (2003, TV Series)
- Sparkhouse (2002, TV series)
- David Copperfield (2000, TV)
- At Home with the Braithwaites (2000, TV series)
- Wuthering Heights (1998, TV series)
- Soldier Soldier (1997, TV series)