Angela Lansbury has joined the cast of Disney’s Mary Poppins Returns Angela Lansbury is the latest addition to the cast of Walt Disney Pictures‘ Mary Poppins Returns, the all-new sequel to 1964’s Mary Poppins. A five-time Tony Award winner and the recipient of an honorary Academy Award and three Academy Award nominations, Angela Lansbury will play the Balloon Lady, a character from PL Travers’ original children’s books. Angela Lansbury joins a Mary Poppins Returns cast that also includes Golden Globe winner Emily Blunt (The Girl on the Train, Into the Woods) and Emmy, Grammy and Tony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton, Moana), Ben Whishaw (SPECTRE), Emily Mortimer (Hugo) and Julie Walters (Harry Potter films) with Colin Firth (The King’s Speech) and Meryl Streep (Florence Foster Jenkins).