Star of Mary Poppins Glynis Johns has died at the age of 100.

The actress, who became a British film star in the late 1940s, was best known her role as singing suffragette Winifred Banks in the Walt Disney classic.

Her manager, Mitch Clem, confirmed the death but did not provide a specific cause.

She died on January 4 at an assisted living home in Los Angeles.

Glynis Johns alongside Davd Tomlinson, Matthew Garber and Karen Dotrice in Disney's Mary Poppins

She won a Tony Award in the musical "A Little Night Music," where she introduced Stephen Sondheim’s standard "Send in the Clowns".