Actor

1977-03-03 · United Kingdom · Female

19 series in the catalog

Sarah Smart (born 3 March 1977) is an English actress.

Early life

Smart was born on 3 March 1977 in Birmingham, England and lived in Northfield until 1987. She was a pupil of St Paul's School for Girls in Birmingham.

Career

Her career started as a child in the television series Woof! She also played Virginia Braithwaite, daughter of a lottery winning family, in the comedy drama At Home with the Braithwaites. She appeared in two television productions written by Sally Wainwright, Sparkhouse (Red Production Company/BBC, 2002) and Jane Hall (Red Production Company/ITV1, 2006). Between 2008 and 2012, she played Ann-Britt Höglund in Wallander, nine feature-length adaptations of Henning Mankell's Wallander novels, for the BBC. Smart has also been featured in several radio dramas. In 2011, she appeared in a two-part story for the sixth series of the BBC series Doctor Who as the sympathetic "villain" of The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People.

Selected filmography

Father Brown (TV series) – "The Royal Visit" (2023)

The Chelsea Detective – "The Gentle Giant" (2022)

Silent Witness – "Remembrance" (2017)

The Musketeers (2016, TV Series)

New Tricks – "Body of Evidence" (2012, TV series)

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 – "The Rebel Flesh" and "The Almost People" (2011, TV series)

Midsomer Murders – "Echoes of the Dead" (2011)

Monroe (2011, TV Drama)

Agatha Christie's Marple (2010, TV series) "They Do It With Mirrors" – Mildred

Casualty 1909 (2009, TV series)

Agatha Christie's Poirot – "Mrs McGinty's Dead" – Maude Williams (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)

Sparkhouse (2002, TV series)

Dalziel and Pascoe – "Walls of Silence" (2001)

David Copperfield (2000, television movie)

At Home with the Braithwaites (2000, TV series)

Wuthering Heights (1998, TV film)

Soldier Soldier (1997, TV series)

A Touch of Frost – "Penny for the Guy" (1997)