Sarah Smart

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 is known for a series of 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 link between Smart and television writer Sally Wainwright. 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 a number of 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 series)
 * Soldier Soldier (1997, TV series)
 * A Touch of Frost – "Penny for the Guy" (1997)