South African and British actress and singer Glynis Johns has died at the age of 100. In France she is best known for her role in “Mary Poppins”.
The actress and singer Glynis Johns died this Thursday, January 4, 2024, at the age of 100. The South African and British actress died in a retirement home in Los Angeles, her agent told the American press. The one who was one of the last representatives of “Old Hollywood”. Since the death ofOlivia de Havilland In 2020, she became the oldest American actress to be nominated for an Oscar.
Glynis Johns was best known in France for his involvement in films Mary Poppins in 1964. If she didn’t play the nanny with magical powers Movie DisneyIt was she who played Mrs. Winifred Banks, mother of the two children in Mary Poppins’ care. We can hear her in particular in the feature film embodying the song “Suffragette Sisters”.
Glynis Johns leaves behind a great career that spans 59 years and has appeared in no fewer than 35 films and series, reports Allociné. She was also nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The Movie Horizons without borders (1960). She was also nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama in 1963 for her role in Drama Guilty connections.
A career on stage
The South African and British actress and singer was also a face on the American scene: she won a Tony Award for her role as Desiree Armfeldt in the musical A little Night Musicin 1973. She notably sang the song “Send in the Clowns,” written by Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim.
It was like that in the cinema Elizabeth Taylor who reprized her role four years later, but Glynis Johns returned to the stage in Los Angeles in 1991 to reprise Desiree Armfeld in a revival of the play.
