Samia Maxine Smith (née Ghadie) (born 13 July 1982 in Eccles, Greater Manchester) is an English actress of English, French and Lebanese descent.

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.

Her film debut was a role of Sara in There's Only One Read more...

She married Matthew Smith, a property developer, on 10 September 2005 after a seven month engagement.

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.

Samia went to the same school as her on-screen husband Rob James-Collier.