Sarah Smart

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

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.

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.