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Sep 27, 2024 · In the 2015 film, she starred as Miss Shepherd, who lived in a battered van in playwright Alan Bennett's driveway for 15 years.
Margaret Mary Fairchild (4 January 1911 – 28 April 1989), also known as Mary Teresa Sheppard, Miss Shepherd and M T Sheppard, [1] 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.
She played Professor Sprout in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) and again in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011).
Smith later appeared in the very successful 'Harry Potter' franchise as the formidable Professor McGonagall as well as in Julian Fellowes' ITV drama series, Downton Abbey (2010) (2010-2011) as the Dowager Countess of Grantham.
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- September 27, 2024
From 2001 to 2011, Smith played Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter films. Smith and Robbie Coltrane , who played Hagrid , had been requested for the film by author J. K. Rowling . [ 70 ]
Sep 28, 2024 · In 2015 film The Lady in Van, Smith plays Miss Shepherd, a cantankerous elderly lady who lives in an old van and forms an unlikely friendship with a man whose driveway she is parked in.
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