GLYNIS Johns, best known for her role as Mrs Banks in the 1964 film Mary Poppins, has died at the age of 100.
The actress starred in the classic movie where she played Winifred Banks, the suffragette mother of the children in need of a nanny.
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She was married four times and had one son, the late actor Gareth Forwood.
The Tony Award-winner outlived all of her ex-husbands, as well as her only child.
She met her first husband Anthony Forwood while rehearsing for Quiet Wedding, in which she played the bridesmaid Miranda Bute.
The couple married in 1942 and had their only child, Gareth, in 1945 but divorced three years later.
Johns then started dating Antony Darnborough after the pair worked on the 1951 anthology film Encore together.
Darnborough proposed to her at the Sunningdale Golf Club in Berkshire, however the wedding was called off.
Her closest surviving relative is her only grandchild Thomas Forwood, 48, a French writer and film director who grew up with her.
