Megan Smart

Megan Smart is an Australian television and film actress.

Early life
Smart grew up in Brisbane. She graduated from Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 2016. She has Lebanese heritage and used Megan Hajjar, her mother’s maiden name, professionally for a spell from 2019.

Career
She made her screen debut in the 2017 film Breath, winning the role after her first professional audition. She also appeared in Love Child. She played a serial killer named Charlotte in the ABC television series Harrow. She played troublemaker Anna Hennessy in Screentime and Channel Seven’s The Secret Daughter in which she appeared with Jessica Mauboy. She also had a role in Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway.

In the 2019 film The Naked Wanderer, she played the former girlfriend of the lead character

In 2020, she played Jaiwara, a Lebanese Muslim woman who has a romance with a musician, in the film Measure for Measure, which also starred Hugo Weaving, and was a retelling of Shakespeare’s 1609 play of the same name. She appeared in Between Two Worlds, the Seven Network drama.

In 2021, she could be seen as Paloma in miniseries  The Unusual Suspects. That year she also appeared in Wakefield for ABC. Smart also appeared in soap opera Home and Away and in the Netflix interactive rom-com Choose Love. In 2022, Smart made her debut as a director with the short film Stonefish. It was nominated for Best Short Film at the 12th AACTA Awards in December 2022.

Smart had the role of Amelia Collins on the 2023 Australian comedy series Class of '07 for Prime Video.