By Wade Sellers For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 15:53 BST, 22 April 2019 | Updated: 15:53 BST, 22 April 2019
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An actress has changed her easier stage name back to her mother's maiden name in a bid to score more diverse roles.
Megan Smart, 25, who appeared alongside Jessica Mauboy in TV series The Secret Daughter, has decided to change her name back to her mother's Lebanese maiden name, Hajjar, as she believed she was losing out on culturally diverse films.
'Hajjar is actually my mother's maiden name so I wanted to change it back to that,' she told Sydney's Confidential on Sunday.
'I was missing out on the roles because of the optics of Smart': Australian actress Megan Smart (pictured) has legally changed her name back to her mother's Lebanese maiden name, Hajjar, so she can score more 'culturally diverse' roles
'Smart is the name I was given and I wanted to change it to my mother's
