Megan Smart

Smart grew up in Brisbane.^[1] She graduated from Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 2016. She has Lebanese heritage and used Megan Hajjar, her mother’s maiden name, professionally for a spell from 2019.^[2]

She made her screen debut in the 2017 film Breath, winning the role after her first professional audition. She also appeared in Love Child. She played a serial killer named Charlotte in the ABC television series Harrow.^[2] She played troublemaker Anna Hennessy in Screentime and Channel Seven’s The Secret Daughter in which she appeared with Jessica Mauboy. She also had a role in Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway.^[3][4]

In the 2019 film The Naked Wanderer, she played the former girlfriend of the lead character^[5]

In 2020, she played Jaiwara, a Lebanese Muslim woman who has a romance with a musician, in the film Measure for Measure, which also starred Hugo Weaving, and was a retelling of Shakespeare’s 1609 play of the same name. She appeared in Between Two Worlds, the Seven Network drama.^[6][7]

In 2021, she could be seen as Paloma in miniseries The Unusual Suspects.^[8] That year she also appeared in Wakefield for ABC.^[9] Smart also appeared in soap opera Home and Away and in the Netflix interactive rom-com Choose Love. In 2022, Smart made her debut as a director with the short film Stonefish.^[4] It was nominated for Best Short Film at the 12th AACTA Awards in December 2022.^[10]

Smart had the role of Amelia Collins on the 2023 Australian comedy series Class of '07 for Prime Video.^[11]