Glynis Johns

Glynis Johns is a South Africanborn Welsh stage and film actress, dancer, pianist and singer. She is best known for creating the role of Desiree Armfeldt in A Little Night Music on Broadway, for which she won a Tony Award, and for playing Winifred Banks in Walt Disneys musical motion picture box office smash Mary Poppins. In both roles, she originated songs written specifically for her, including Send in the Clowns, composed by Stephen Sondheim, and Sister Suffragette, written by the Sherman Brothers.

Johns was born in Pretoria, South Africa, the daughter of Alys Maude , a pianist, and Mervyn Johns , the British stage and film actor. Her roots are in West Wales, and she was born in Pretoria while her parents were performing on tour there. She attended Clifton High School in Bristol for a short time. Her ancestors on the Johns side are recorded as living at the farm Glanmorlais Uchaf, Trimsaran, Carmarthenshire in 1701.

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