Rebecca Elizabeth Smart (born 30 January 1976) is an Australian actress, who began acting for television at the age of eight. Her first movie role was one year later in ''

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''. She played the lead in the 1988 film '' Celia'' and went on to do many more supporting roles in movies and television shows, including

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and

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. Smart has worked with Australian directors of film, television and theatre. Companies include

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and

Belvoir St Theatre Belvoir is an Australian theatre company based at the Belvoir St Theatre in Sydney, Australia, originally known as Company B. Since 2016 and its artistic director is Eamon Flack. The theatre contains a 330-seat Upstairs Theatre and a 80-seat ...

Early life and education

Smart was born in

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, and was educated at

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, an

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, Anglican,

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and boarding school for girls, located in the eastern suburbs of Sydney.

Awards and nominations

Smart won the Most Popular Actress in a Miniseries/Telemovie Silver Logie at the

Logie Award The Logie Awards (officially the TV Week Logie Awards; colloquially known as The Logies) is an annual gathering to celebrate Australian television, sponsored and organised by the magazine '' TV Week''. The first ceremony was held in 1959 as th ...

s for her performance in the 1987 Australian Miniseries '' The Shiralee''. She was also nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the

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Awards and the

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Awards for her performance in ''Blackrock''.

Filmography

FILM

Television

TELEVISION

References

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