Cork actress Ayoola Smart on filming with Ethan Hawke and her role in RTÉ’s Smother

Cork actress Ayoola Smart tells Marjorie Brennan about working with Ethan Hawke and her latest role in RTÉ drama 'Smother' 
Cork actress Ayoola Smart on filming with Ethan Hawke and her role in RTÉ’s Smother

Ayoola Smart has been kept busy during lockdown, filming 'Death in Paradise' on a Caribbean Ireland as well as working on Clare-based drama 'Smother'. Picture: Fay Summerfield

Ayoola Smart couldn’t have asked for a better start to her professional career as an actor, which began before she had even left drama school. In 2016, Smart was cast in an acclaimed production of The Taming of the Shrew at the iconic Globe theatre in London; it had an all-Irish roster of actors to mark the centenary of the Easter Rising.

“The way the director Caroline Byrne works felt very in line with what I had just been doing at drama school. It was a very practical application straight away, which was amazing,” says Smart. 

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