Biographies: Glynis Johns - Actor

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A South African-born British actress, born in Pretoria, South Africa, on October 5, 1923, as Glynis Margaret P. Johns, to Alice Maude Steele, a pianist, and Mervyn Johns, a Welsh stage and film actor. She won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical in 1973 for her role in A Little Night Music, and in 1961, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for The Sundowners (1960). Glynis Johns married four times and had one child, actor Gareth Forwood. Among her most notable works are Mary Poppins (1964), While You Were Sleeping (1995), The Ref (1994), and The Court Jester (1955). Johns became a US citizen after immigrating to the United States.

• 7 August 2022
• Dalia Saad