Di Smith

Cast (Lizzie), Seventeen

Di Smith has enjoyed a diverse and highly visible career as an actor on both screen and stage, working with major theatre companies such as Sydney Theatre Company, MTC, Malthouse, and SATC, as well as in commercial productions and musical theatre.

She travelled for 10 years on The Great Outdoors for Network Seven and appeared in many of Australia's best-known television dramas, from The Restless Years, to Redfern Now’s telemovie Promise Me and Netflix's Wellmania.  

She is best known and widely loved for her iconic role as Dr. Alex Fraser in the long-running series A Country Practice. In Australian cinema, her notable film credits include Charlie and Boots and Emoh Ruo. Most recently, she made a Hollywood appearance in Paramount's The Fall Guy (2024).

Other theatre credits include:

• The Sirens Return (Merrigong Theatre Company, 2022)
• Wild Thing (NSW tour and Flight Path Theatre, 2021)
• The Hope Song (Flight Path Theatre, 2019)
• The Shifting Heart (White Box Theatre at Seymour Centre, 2018)

Favourite past roles:

• Joan in Love Song (Darlinghurst Theatre Co.)
• Charlotte in A Little Night Music
• Lady Percy in Henry IV
• Ann Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor
• Shorts at the Wharf (Sydney Theatre Company)
• Brooke in Falling from Grace (MTC, QTC, STC)
• Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Outdoors, Sydney’s Botanic Gardens)
• Mum/Chorus in How I Learned to Drive (Ensemble Theatre)

Producer and performer credits include:

• Wild Thing by Suzanne Hawley (NSW Regional Tour, 2023)
• In This Light by Noel Hodda (2022)
• Peeled by Catherine Strickland (Adelaide Fringe, River of Arts Festival, and Brown's Mart, Darwin)
• Stories for Grommets (Children’s storytelling, Bondi Pavilion Theatre)

Di has also co-produced with writer and director Matt Day on his short films The Mother Situation, which was awarded as the 2017 TropFest Winner for Best Film, Best Screenplay and Best Actress.

She has been a proud member of MEAA Actors Equity since 1976.