Home and Away star Jason Smith welcomes baby girl with his wife Cassidy - and reveals her adorable name
The veteran actor, 40, shared a photo to social media on Friday of his newborn daughter resting peacefully in her mother's arms, and captioned it with some heartfelt words.
'So excited to introduce our beautiful daughter and Felix's baby sister, Luka. 24.04.25. So proud of our family,' Jason wrote.
The pair are also the proud parents to one-year-old Felix, who they welcomed in October 2023.
Many of Jason's followers quickly took to the comment section to congratulate him on the joyful news.
'I'm so happy for you!' one person wrote and a second added: 'Congratulations. Only she can say my dad is a Power Ranger.'
Jason appeared as Robbie Hunter on the long-running Channel Seven soap opera Home and Away from 2003 - 2006.
He later starred as the Red Ranger on the New Zealand-filmed children's action series Power Rangers Jungle Fury and in The Mystery of Natalie Wood, opposite Colin Friels.
He famously played Robbie Hunter on Home and Away from 2003 to 2006, alongside the likes of Chris Hemsworth and Isabel Lucas.
But he is no longer acting these days, and instead has a successful career behind the scenes in Australia and the United States.
The 40-year-old was most recently the associate producer of Channel 10's zany reality show The Masked Singer Australia.
Smith also served as a producer for the American music quiz show Name That Tune.
Name That Tune aired on Fox in the U.S., but was filmed in Sydney in late 2020 due to Australia's comparatively lax Covid restrictions at the time.
It was hosted by 30 Rock's Jane Krakowski and American Idol judge Randy Jackson.
Smith's work also includes writing credits for Power Rangers Megaforce, and his old soap Home and Away from 2012 to 2013.
In 2019, he hosted Home and Away's Christmas in Summer Bay TV special.
That role was accompanied by a podcast series, which he also presented, featuring interviews with cast members.
At about this time, he was asked on The Morning Show if he would consider ever returning to Summer Bay.
'If Robbie's evil twin brother Bobby wants to come back, I'm in,' he said.
'If the right storyline comes along, I'd love to come back.'
'Coming back to the show and walking through those doors of the Summer Bay house for the first episode gave me all the feels. It felt like I never left,' he added, referring to filming the TV special.
In addition to his television work, Smith hosted Nova FM's Late Nights show for a year in 2016.
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