William Smith is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Home and Away, played by Zac Drayson.

[3][4] Will arrives in town with his daughter, Lily (Charlie Rose Maclennan), to visit his former foster mother, Irene Roberts (Lynne McGranger) after his marriage suffers problems.

[3] On his character's return, Drayson said "He and Gypsy are going through a rough patch, so he comes home to clear his head.

"[4] Will was originally described as a "hot-tempered trouble maker" who arrives in the Bay to reconnect with his siblings, Hayley (Rebecca Hewitt) and Nick (Chris Egan).

[6] However Will knows more than he was letting on so he runs away, describing Will ordeal Drayson states: "Will knows more about Penn's death than meets the eye, he lied about Alf being involved, though we don't yet know what his motives are.

After running away from a foster home and ending up on the streets, Will meets up with Damian Roberts (Matt Doran) and learns that his mother Irene was in the habit of taking in children.

This fails as Hayley and Nick are happy in foster care and Will apologises for his actions and agrees to stay on at Irene's house.

Will is not happy as one of the conditions of his stay is he has to return to school, but he quickly becomes good friends with his classmate Sam Marshall (Ryan Clark).

Will takes an interest in Gypsy but their relationship is hampered by the fact that her father, Joel Nash (David Woodley), was the new PE teacher and clashed with Will on his first day.

Annoyed at the idea of her boyfriend and her father being friends, Gypsy tells Will that Joel is only interested in him because he could win him trophies, so Will deliberately gets himself disqualified from a competition.

When Irene leaves to visit her daughter Finlay (Tina Thomsen), Will, Hayley and Joey stay with Ailsa Stewart (Judy Nunn).

Will supports Gypsy when she succumbs to alcoholism after her kidnap ordeal at the hands of David D'Angelo (Toni Poli), her tutor who used the pseudonym Robert Perez.

He dates Peta Janossi (Aleetza Wood) and helps cover for her upon learning her grandmother had died and she and her brother David ware living alone.

After learning Gypsy has been cheating on him with rich kid Charlie Nicholas (Toby Schmitz), Will is furious and vandalises the school field with a motorbike and is given community service as a result.

Will and Gypsy sleep together but he returns to Dani and supports her after she is raped by Kane Phillips (Sam Atwell).

He returns to the Bay when he and Gypsy begin having problems and considers getting back together with Dani who is now dating Scott Hunter (Kip Gamblin).

He returns the following year for Hayley's wedding to Noah Lawson (Beau Brady), where he reveals to Jesse that his daughter Rachel, who had been staying with the Nashes, has asked him and Gypsy to adopt her.