Roy Smiles (born c. 1966) is a British playwright and singer-songwriter from West London. He is also an occasional actor. Smiles is the author of twenty five produced stage plays. He has had plays staged in the UK, US, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Israel and Sweden.As a singer-songwriter his first album Drunks & Dreamers was released by Red Admiral Records in March 2011. His second album Time's Moving On was released by Red Admiral Records in August 2012. His third album Seize The Day was released by Red Admiral Records in June 2013. His fourth album Autumn Song was released by Native Records in February 2014. A fifth album Bremen was released in August 2014 by Native Records.An internet only compilation of his 2007-2010 work: Fools & Angels was released on Bandcamp/Grooveshark in 2013.As an actor he played the character of Itzak Heller in Roman Polanski's Oscar winning film The Pianist.His plays include Ying Tong - A Walk With The Goons, Pythonesque, Kurt & Sid, Year of The Rat, Bombing People and The Last Pilgrim.