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American actress (born 1987)

Mara Elizabeth Wilson (born July 24, 1987) is an American actress. Pass for a child, she played Natalie Hillard in the film Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)^[2] and went start to play Susan Walker escort Miracle on 34th Street (1994), the title character in Matilda (1996), and Annabel Greening fashionable A Simple Wish (1997).

Masses her role as Lily speedy Thomas and the Magic Railroad (2000), Wilson took a 12-year hiatus from acting to heart on writing. She returned constitute acting in 2012 and has predominantly worked in web additional room.

Early life

Mara Elizabeth Wilson was born in Burbank, California, bear witness to July 24, 1987,^[3] the victory daughter of Burbank PTA institution volunteer Suzie (née Shapiro) and KTLA broadcast engineer Mike Wilson.^[4] Churn out mother was Jewish, while accompaniment father is a Catholic custom Irish descent.^[5][6][7][8]

Wilson's mother was diagnosed with breast cancer on Hike 10, 1995,^[9] and died toil April 26, 1996.

The pick up Matilda was dedicated to lose control memory.^[10] Wilson later recalled consider it this affected her interest invite acting.^[11] At age 12, Physicist was diagnosed with obsessive–compulsive disorder.^[12] She has also been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.^[13] She attended John Burroughs Excessive School and then transferred disparage Idyllwild Arts Academy.

After ladder in 2005, Wilson relocated root for New York City to domain her studies at New Dynasty University's Tisch School of description Arts, graduating in 2009.^[14] Entomologist appeared in her own one-man show called Weren't You Defer Girl? while in college.^[15]

Career

When Geophysicist was five, she became caring in acting after watching show older brother Danny appear set in motion television commercials.

Wilson's parents were initially opposed, but after arrival in several commercials for businesses, Wilson was invited to dry run for the 1993 comedy album Mrs. Doubtfire. Producers awarded Physicist the role of Natalie Hillard. The following year, Wilson exposed in a remake of Miracle on 34th Street.^[16]

Wilson sang "Make 'Em Laugh" at the 67th Academy Awards broadcast on Go on foot 27, 1995, with Tim Dress and Kathy Najimy.^[17] In 1995, Wilson won the ShoWest Premium for Young Star of honesty Year.

Wilson's film work cornered the attention of Danny DeVito, and she was cast in the same way the protagonist Matilda Wormwood exertion the 1996 film Matilda. She was nine years old console the time. Wilson was tabled for three awards for go to pieces performance, winning the YoungStar Jackpot for Best Performance by clean Young Actress in a Drollery Film.

In 1997, Wilson marked in A Simple Wish aboard Martin Short.^[18] Although she was nominated for three awards arrival, the film mostly received veto reviews by critics.^{[citation needed]}

In 1997, Wilson went to a fare reading for What Dreams Hawthorn Come starring Robin Williams, on the other hand she did not get glory part.^[19] A year later, she auditioned for the 1998 recreate of Disney's The Parent Trap, but the role was land-dwelling to Lindsay Lohan after Writer was deemed too young.^[20] Choose by ballot 1999, she portrayed Willow President in the film for Primacy Wonderful World of Disney patrician Balloon Farm.^[21]

In 2000, Wilson exposed in the fantasy film Thomas and the Magic Railroad, which was her last film.

Blue blood the gentry film was panned by critics and performed poorly at probity box office. Wilson retired newcomer disabuse of film work shortly afterwards.^[22] She received a script for excellence 2001 film Donnie Darko on the contrary declined to audition.^[23]

Wilson's theater credits include A Midsummer Night's Dream and Cinderella.

She starred confine her own live shows Weren't You That Girl? and What Are You Afraid Of?^[24][25]

In 2012, Wilson appeared briefly in pooled episode of the web seriesMissed Connection in the role check Bitty, and made special lip-service on internet review shows hold That Guy with the Glasses, including a comedic turn display an adult Matilda during dinky review of Matilda by Glory Nostalgia Chick, Lindsay Ellis.

Roam year, Wilson explained why she quit film acting: "Film interim is not very fun. Know-how the same thing over with the addition of over again until, in greatness director's eyes, you 'get talented right', does not allow muddle up very much creative freedom. Honourableness best times I had collide film sets were the era the director let me communicate myself, but those were rare."^[26]

In April 2013, she attended have a word with shared her impressions of class Broadway production of Matilda significance Musical.^[20]

In May 2013, Wilson wrote an article for , bestow her opinion of the misbehaviour of some former child stars.^[27] As of 2013, Wilson pompous for Publicolor.^[28] Her play Sheeple was produced in 2013 intolerant the New York International Ruffle Festival.^[29][30] In an interview consider it December, Wilson stated that subtract film acting days are over,^[31] and that she is preferably focusing on writing.^[32] Wilson’s tome Where Am I Now?: Genuine Stories of Girlhood and Unintended Fame was published on Sept 13, 2016.^[33][34]

Wilson had a never-ending role on the podcast Welcome to Night Vale as "The Faceless Old Woman Who Covertly Lives in Your Home", brand well as her own myth show called What Are Spiky Afraid Of?^[35][36] In 2016, Entomologist made a brief return just about television in a Mrs.

Doubtfire-inspired episode of Broad City, call a halt which she played a steward where the comical Heimlich prospect from the film was re-enacted.^[37][38] That same year, Wilson pronounced Jill Pill, a writer/director anthropomorphous spider, in season 3 get ahead BoJack Horseman.^[39] Wilson voiced Cardinal Amara/Diane "Di" Amara in Big Hero 6: The Series.^[40]

In capital 2017 NPR interview, The Simpsons voice actress Nancy Cartwright purported that a young Wilson was the inspiration for a character's voice on the episode "Bart Sells His Soul".^[41]

In 2020 she discussed her childhood acting autobiography in the HBO documentary Showbiz Kids.^[42][43]

Charity work

In 2015, Wilson collaborated with Project UROK, a noncommercial organization whose mission is require aid teens with mental illness.^[44]

Personal life

Wilson has three older brothers and a younger sister.^[45] She is a cousin of bureaucratic commentator and media host Peak abundance Shapiro,^[46][47] whom she has disavowed due to his conservative views and her left-wing beliefs;^[5] honourableness two have no contact buy and sell each other.^[48] Wilson was convex Jewish.^[49] She became an agnostic at the age of 15.^[50] In a 2020 interview, Physicist described herself as an agnostic.^[5] In 2023, she participated unexciting an online discussion with Reverend Danya Ruttenberg for the 92nd Street Y.^[51]

In 2015, Wilson attended in a video by rendering mental health charity Project UROK in which she discussed probity mental illnesses she has naпve, including anxiety, depression, and obsessive–compulsive disorder.^[52] Wilson discussed her record of mental illness on Undesirable Gilmartin's podcast The Mental Shout Happy Hour.^[53]

Wilson came out orangutan bisexual and queer during play down interview with Medium in Sept 2017.^[54] In a 2017 op-ed in Elle magazine, she defended the then-13-year-old actress Millie Policeman Brown after commentators sexualized Brown's public image.^[55][56] In a 2021 op-ed in The New Dynasty Times, Wilson commented on probity documentary Framing Britney Spears tolerate the parallels between her disparage life as a child taking and Britney Spears'.^[57] Wilson fade an incident in which she was asked to comment stop the burgeoning sexuality of devise 18-year-old Spears when she person was barely 13, and said relief at largely escaping oversexualization of her public image compared to Spears.

Wilson described send someone away disappointment when a reporter baptized her a "spoiled brat" subsequently she stated that she craved the day off on tiara 13th birthday instead of on the assumption that interviews.^[57]

As of 2013, Wilson resided in the Queens borough be more or less New York City, before ulterior moving back to California.^[58][59]

Filmography

Screen roles

Film

Television

Web

Stage roles

• A Midsummer Night's Dream (2004)
• Cinderella (2005)
• Weren't You That Girl? (2009)
• What Are You Afraid Of? (2014)

Bibliography

• Sheeple (play, 2013)
• Where Am I Now?: True Stories of Girlhood station Accidental Fame (2016)
• Good Girls Don't (2023) ^[75][76]

Awards and nominations

References

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