What is Matt Smith?
{{Infobox person | name = Matt Smith | image = Matt Smith by Gage Skidmore.jpg | imagesize = 220px | caption = Smith at the [[San Diego Comic-Con International]] in 2011 | birth_name = Matthew Robert Smith | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1982|10|28|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Northampton]], [[England]] | occupation = Actor | height = 182 cm | yearsactive = 2003 – present |}} '''Matthew Robert Smith''' (born 28 October 1982)<ref name=NSB>[http://www.nsb.northants.sch.uk/?_id=1631 Northampton School for Boys<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> is an [[English people|English]] [[actor]]. He is best known as the [[eleventh Doctor|eleventh form]] of [[Doctor (Doctor Who)|the Doctor]] on the [[United Kingdom|British]] [[television series]] ''[[Doctor Who]]''. He received a [[British Academy of Film and Television Arts|BAFTA Award]] nomination for the role in 2011.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/apr/26/doctor-who-matt-smith-e4-misfits-baftas|title=Doctor Who's Matt Smith and E4's Misfits win Bafta nods|date=26 April 2011|accessdate=8 September 2011|first=John|last=Plunkett|work=The Guardian}}</ref> He wanted to be a [[Association football|professional footballer]]. A [[spine|back]] [[injury]] made him stop playing the [[sport]]. He joined the [[National Youth Theatre]] and studied [[Drama]] and [[Creative Writing]] at the [[University of East Anglia]]. Smith became an actor in 2003. He performed in [[Play (theatre)|plays]] like ''[[Murder in the Cathedral]]'', ''Fresh Kills'', ''[[The History Boys]]'' and ''[[On the Shore of the Wide World]]'' in [[London]] theatres. On [[West End theatre|West End]], he has performed in ''[[Swimming with Sharks]]'' with [[Christian Slater]],<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7807996.stm |title=Entertainment &#124; Who on earth is Matt Smith? |publisher=BBC News |date=2009-01-03 |accessdate=2009-03-16}}</ref> and ''[[That Face]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/article-23482551-details/That+face+to+watch/ar