Mara Wilson

Mara Wilson interests me more as an adult than she ever did as Hollywood's favorite child star, and that is saying something given Matilda. She did the rarest thing a famous kid can do: she left on her own terms and found a second voice in writing, podcasting, and voice acting. Her essays on child stardom are some of the most clear-eyed I have read on the subject — funny, unsentimental, quietly devastating. I admire people who refuse to stay frozen at the age the public first met them, and Wilson is the model case. Her byline now excites me as much as her filmography.

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Name (English)

Mara Wilson

Name (Japanese)

マーラ・ウィルソン

Reading

まーら・うぃるそん

Born

July 24, 1987 (age 39)

Origin

Burbank, California, United States

Occupation

stage actor / blogger / podcaster / voice actor / film actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Rabbit

High school

Sherman E. Burroughs High School

University

New York University Tisch School of the Arts

Awards & achievements

• Young Artist Award for Best Leading Young Actress in a Feature Film

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttps://mara.substack.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/marawilson/
• Xhttps://x.com/MaraWritesStuff
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mara%20Wilson
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q237270

Tags

• California
• stage actor
• blogger
• podcaster

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.