Mary Poppins (character) Academy Award for Best Actress. British film magazine "Empire" included Poppins (as played by Andrews) in their 2011 list of 100 greatest movie characters. A quintessential English nanny, Mary Poppins is a slightly stern but caring woman, who uses magic and self-control to take care of the Banks children. She is usually identifiable by her sensible hat and parrot umbrella which she brings with her wherever she goes on outings. She is kind towards the children, but can be firm when needed. She is "practically perfect in every way." In the film version, she is a young woman, with an
Mary Poppins (character) the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games, a group of over thirty Mary Poppins with umbrellas descended en masse to fight and defeat the nightmares (which consisted of the villains Queen of Hearts, Captain Hook, Cruella de Vil, and Lord Voldemort) that were haunting children's dreams. The sequence is called "." Terry Pratchett's Susan Sto Helit character satirizes Mary Poppins in various ways, most explicitly in the novel "Hogfather". In "The Simpsons" season 8 episode "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious", Marge hires a new housekeeper for the family, named Shary Bobbins (voiced by Maggie Roswell), who attempts to help them become