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Margaret Mary Fairchild (4 January 1911 – 28 April 1989), also known as Mary Teresa Sheppard, Miss Shepherd and M T Sheppard, was a British homeless woman. Her life was depicted in the 2015 film The Lady in the Van by Alan Bennett in which she was played by Dame Maggie Smith.
11 feb 2015 · She led an extraordinary life, enjoying success as a concert pianist when she was a young woman, before spending her middle years living in a battered old car following a failed romance and ...
He also finds out her real name: Margaret Fairchild. A mysterious man stops by her van who frightens her every so often, and she gives him money, and she lives in constant fear of the police. Eventually, Shepherd is sent to a day centre.
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Smith had previously played her in a 1999 play of the same name and a radio adaptation for BBC Radio 4 in 2009. She had also been a concert pianist and nun. Margaret Mary Fairchild, also known as Mary Teresa Sheppard, Miss Shepherd and M T Sheppard, was a British homeless woman.
Margaret Mary Fairchild (4 January 1911 – 28 April 1989) also known as Mary Teresa Sheppard/Miss Shepherd was a former concert pianist, nun and homeless woman who is the title character in the 2015 film The Lady in the Van by Alan Bennett in which she was played by Maggie Smith.
21 dic 2015 · In the course of the film, we discover that Miss Shepherd’s real name was Margaret Fairchild and that she was, in her youth, a gifted pianist and once played Chopin at the Proms. After trying and failing to become a nun, she was committed by her brother to a mental institution, from which she escaped.
29 mag 2022 · Her real name was Margaret Fairchild, a gifted pianist who'd studied piano in Paris under the virtuoso pianist Albert Cortot. What happened? Why did such a talented lady succumb to...
