during 2010, smith acted as a mentor to the contestants of the bbc show "over the rainbow". sky arts' chekhov comedy shorts also featured smith in 2010 when she starred as natasha in "the proposal". she appeared in the 2011 film "hysteria", about the invention of the vibrator. for the factual hospital series "bizarre er", she took over narration duties from freema agyeman. she appeared in the 2012 itv film adaptation of daphne du maurier's novel "the scapegoat".