Jordan Patrick Smith (born 18 June 1989) is a
Scottish-Australian
Scottish Australians ( sco, Scots Australiens, gd, Astràilianaich Albannach) are residents of Australia who are fully or partially of Scottish descent.
According to the 2021 Australian census, 130,060 Australian residents wer ...
actor. He gained prominence through his role as
Andrew Robinson in the soap opera ''
Neighbours'' (2009–2013, 2022). He has since appeared in the film ''
Unbroken'' (2014), and the historical dramas ''
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Vikings
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'' (2016–2020), and the
HBO horror fantasy drama ''
Lovecraft Country
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'' (2020).
Early life
Smith was born in
Fife.
He attended
St Columba's High School and played football for
Dunfermline's youth academy. Following a holiday to Australia in 2001, Smith's family fell in love with the country and decided to emigrate.
They moved to
Brisbane
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in 2003 when Smith was thirteen years old. He attended Carmel Catholic College.
Career
After finishing school, Smith took a number of acting courses and appeared in a few commercials. He has previously appeared in ''
H2O: Just Add Water'', in which he played a
surfer.
Smith has also had roles in ''
Mortified
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''
and ''
Home and Away''.
While between jobs, Smith worked as a
labourer
A laborer (or labourer) is a person who works in manual labor types in the construction industry workforce. Laborers are in a working class of wage-earners in which their only possession of significant material value is their labor. Industries e ...
.
In 2009, he was offered the role of
Andrew Robinson in the hit soap opera ''
Neighbours'', but nearly had to turn it down because he was in hospital. He says, "I'd been doing some work as a labourer and I'd been lifting up concrete floors when some of the concrete flew up and smashed into my face. My nose got all swollen and became infected, so I was kept on a drip of antibiotics for a week. I got the call to say I got the part while I was still in hospital on Sunday night (in Queensland) and I had to be in Melbourne by 7am the next day."
Smith has admitted that ''Neighbours'' had to change his character's background story because of his Scottish accent.
Andrew was initially meant to have been brought up in
Brazil
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, but the strength of Smith's accent meant that this had to be changed.
He has also stated that he had to "refine" his accent in order to be understood by other cast members and the audience.
Smith admitted that if he was not playing the role of Andrew Robinson he would have liked to play the role of fellow ''Neighbours'' character
Lucas Fitzgerald, played by his co-star
Scott Major
Scott Ian Major (born 4 July 1975) is an Australian actor and TV and film director, best known for his roles as Peter Rivers in the 1994 television teen drama series ''Heartbreak High'' and Lucas Fitzgerald in soap opera ''Neighbours''.
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, instead.
While he was appearing on ''Neighbours'', Smith resided with his co-star
Chris Milligan
Christopher Milligan (born 14 June 1988) is an Australian actor. From 2008 to 2022, he played Kyle Canning in the television soap opera ''Neighbours''. He initially started out as a recurring cast member, until he was promoted to the regular ca ...
, who played
Kyle Canning
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.
On 26 November 2012, it was announced that Smith would be leaving ''Neighbours''. He made his final screen appearance as Andrew on 29 March 2013. Smith co-starred in
Angelina Jolie
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's ''
Unbroken'' as Cliff, an Australian prisoner who is taken to a Japanese POW camp in World War II. In 2015, Smith appeared in the
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