Sarah Smart

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

Early life

Smart was born on 3 March 1977 in Birmingham, England^[1][2] 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!^[1] She also played Virginia Braithwaite, daughter of a lottery winning family, in the comedy drama At Home with the Braithwaites.^[3] 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.^[4]

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)