Sarah Smart


Sarah Smart 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 and Jane Hall. 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