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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, [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 .
Plot. In 1970, writer Alan Bennett moves into a wealthy suburb of Camden. Soon afterwards, he meets Miss Mary Shepherd, an irritable, eccentric, unsanitary, and religious homeless woman living in an old Bedford van, who squats outside multiple houses in Bennett's street of Gloucester Crescent.
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Dec 24, 2016 · Bennett and Hytner agreed there was only one person who could play Miss Shepherd, and that was Maggie Smith. Sixteen years later this is still the case.
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.
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.
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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.
