Zizi Strallen keeps acting in the family with starring role in Mary Poppins musical

Recreating Julie Andrews’ famous nanny doesn’t phase Zizi Strallen, who followed her family into acting, says Ed Power

It’s not a carbon copy. One difference is that the kids really are quite nasty monsters in the beginning

Zizi Strallen doesn’t bear much resemblance to a flying Edwardian nanny as she takes her seat in a grim hotel conference suite. But in a few hours this 25-year-old scion of a famous London acting family will breath magical life into PL Travers’ Mary Poppins, whom she plays in a new touring production of the West End musical.