Glynis Johns, 100-year-old actress and star of the Disney musical film Mary Poppins (1964), has died in California. In this respect reports The Sun quotes the artist’s manager Mitch Clem.
According to Clem, the actress who played Winifred Banks, the mother of the main characters in “Mary Poppins,” died of natural causes.
Glynis Johns was chosen by the studio’s founder Walt Disney to star in the film Mary Poppins. Prior to this role, she starred in two Disney projects and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her work in the western film “At the End of Day.”
Jones also won the 1973 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her starring role in A Little Night Music, which had music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.
In 1998, Glynis Johns was hailed as a Disney Legend and until the day of her death, she was the studio’s oldest living legend.
Jones was married four times and had one son; the late actor Gareth Forwood.
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