Fate has a role for actress.

ACTRESS Sarah Smart said auditions are her "least favourite thing in the world".

The 31-year-old, who hails from Northfield, is currently filming Casualty 1909 for BBC1 and got her first acting job aged ten, in The Railway Children at The Rep.

She said her worst audition was having to pretend to be Snow White playing musical chairs with seven imaginary dwarves.

"It was just so embarrassing," she said.

Sarah said she didn't get the job which was for a commercial, but believes fate often has a part to play.

"It's what gets me through," she said. "If I got a certain part I might not have done something else. I always think there's a reason for getting some things and not others."

Her advice for people is to research the job, be thick-skinned in case of rejection and have inner confidence.

Sarah said her best audition was for ITV's At Home With The Braithwaites for which she won the role of Virginia the daughter, who in the programme reveals she is a lesbian.

She said: "It's a kind of black comedy and having never done that before I was really worried about being funny. I asked if I could do the coming out scene and I bet if I hadn't have asked I wouldn't have got it."

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Sarah Smart in Casualty 1909 and, (far right), in black comedy At Home With The Braithwaites.