[1] He attended St Columba's High School and played football for Dunfermline's youth academy.

[citation needed] Following a holiday to Australia in 2001, Smith's family fell in love with the country and decided to emigrate.

[5] In 2009, he was offered the role of Andrew Robinson in the Australian soap opera Neighbours, but nearly had to turn it down because he was in hospital.

[6] While he was appearing on Neighbours, Smith resided with his co-star Chris Milligan, who played Kyle Canning.

[10] Smith co-starred in Angelina Jolie's Unbroken as Cliff, an Australian prisoner who is taken to a Japanese POW camp in World War II.