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Born - 13th July 1982
Birthplace - Eccles, England, UK
Occupation - Actress
Ethnicity - British
Notable Credits (IMDB) - Coronation Street, Theres Only One Jimmy Grimble

Samia Maxine Smith (née Ghadie) is an English actress of French and Lebanese descent. She is best known for playing Maria Connor in the ITV Soap Coronation Street.


Personal life

She married Matthew Smith, a property developer, in Chester on 10 September 2005 after a seven month engagement, They currently reside on the outskirts of Congleton in Cheshire. Smith also had a relationship with former co star and on screen boyfriend Adam Rickett in the early 2000s.

She has also pledged her future to the ITV soap and confirmed that she finds her sex symbol status weird in an interview with The Mirror.

Smith went to the same school as fellow Coronation Street actor Rob James-Collier, who portrayed her late on-screen husband Liam Connor.

Smith's father, Joseph Ghadie, died of cancer on 14 April 2009.

On 21 April 2009, she and her husband announced that they were expecting the couple's first baby in mid December. Her character will temporarily leave Coronation Street to go on maternity leave.

Career

She made her acting debut when she was 11, appearing in a single episode of Cracker ("The Big Crunch"). She then made appearances in Children's Ward, Heartbeat, Doctors, and the children's series, Life Force. Her big break came in 2000, when she beat Suzanne Shaw and Kimberley Walsh to the role of Maria Sutherland in Coronation Street.

Along with Jennie McAlpine in December 2008, she participated in a celebrity edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? where the pair won £50,000 for charity.

Her film debut was a role of Sara in There's Only One Jimmy Grimble.

Samia was placed 52nd in the 2003 FHM's 100 Sexiest Women in the World, and voted sexiest female by the readers of Inside Soap magazine in 2005. In the same year she impersonated Holly Valance in a celebrity version of Stars In Their Eyes- Which she won'. She also appeared alongside her Coronation Street castmates in a celebrity version of the TV show Family Fortunes in December 2006. In 2008 she appeared in the fourth episode of Keith Lemon's Very Brilliant World Tour which was set in Egypt.

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