Background
Smart was born in Birmingham, England. She is best known for a series of well-regarded television roles including Virginia Braithwaite, daughter of a lottery winning family in the comedy drama At Home with the Braithwaites.
Smart was born in Birmingham, England. She is best known for a series of well-regarded television roles including Virginia Braithwaite, daughter of a lottery winning family in the comedy drama At Home with the Braithwaites.
Her career started as a child, notably in the television series Woof! Sparkhouse (Red Production Company / British Broadcasting Corporation 2002). And her appearance in Jane Hall (Red Production Company / ITV1 2006) marked a fruitful link between Smart and television writer Sally Wainwright. Between 2008 and 2010, she was featured as Anne-Britt Hoglund in Wallander, six feature-length adaptations of Henning Mankell"s Wallander novels, for the British Broadcasting Corporation. Smart has also been featured successfully in a number of radio dramas.
In 2011, she appeared in a 2-part story for the sixth series of the BBC1 hit series Doctor Who giving a very positively received performance as the sympathetic "villain" of The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People.
She was a pupil of Street Paul"s School for Girls in Birmingham and has since returned during summer fetes to sign autographs.