Sarah Smart (born 3 March 1977) is an English actress.
Smart was born on 3 March 1977 in Birmingham, England [1] [2] 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! [1] She also played Virginia Braithwaite, daughter of a lottery winning family, in the comedy drama At Home with the Braithwaites . [3] She appeared in two television productions written by Sally Wainwright, Sparkhouse (Red Production Company/BBC, 2002) and Jane Hall (Red Production Company/ITV1, 2006). 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 . [4]