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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. Smith had previously played her in a 1999 play of the same name and a radio adaptation for BBC Radio 4 in 2009. Fairchild had also been a concert pianist and nun.
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margaret fairchild pianist biography mary shepherd/margaret fairchild margaret fairchild wikipedia margaret fairchild (died 1989) She had been scared off by a woman she'd known in Banstead, and had an opportunity to sneak in to play a piano in the centre. She explains that her confessor (in addition to the nuns) had forbidden her from playing, which she was told would help her spirit grow.
Dec 21, 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.
Aug 13, 2016 · Bennett gradually learns that Miss Mary Shepherd is actually Margaret Fairchild, who had been a gifted concert pianist. She tried to become a nun but her confessor told her she was not allowed to play the piano.
Miss Shepherd was, in fact, Margaret Fairchild, former pupil of pianist Alfred Cortot. She played Chopin in a concert, and after she tried to become a nun, was institutionalized by her brother.
May 29, 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 mental illness?
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Clare Hammond is intriguing as a young Margaret Fairchild being a disobedient nun and a virtuoso pianist. Roger Allam's Rufus and Deborah Findlay's Pauline are funny as the nosy and...
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