Smith played Professor Minerva McGonagall in the "Harry Potter" film series (2001–2011). Her other films include "Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing" (1973), "Death on the Nile" (1978), "Clash of the Titans" (1981), "Evil Under the Sun" (1982), "Hook" (1991), "Sister Act" (1992), "" (1993), "The Secret Garden" (1993), "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" (2012), and "The Lady in the Van" (2015). She won an Emmy Award in 2003 for "My House in Umbria", to become one of the few actresses to have achieved the Triple Crown of Acting, and starred as Lady Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham, on "Downton Abbey" (2010–2015), for which she won three Emmys, her first non-ensemble Screen Actors Guild Award, and her third Golden Globe. Her honorary film awards include the BAFTA Special Award in 1993 and the BAFTA Fellowship in 1996. She received the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's Legacy Award in 2012, and the Bodley Medal by the University of Oxford's Bodleian Libraries in 2016.