Mara Wilson
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La Mesa, CA, United States
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How Kurosawa's The Bad Sleep Well Helped Me to Finally Like Hamlet
For actress and writer Mara Wilson, it took seeing the Bard's classic tale of revenge through a Japanese lens for her to truly appreciate it. → Read More
Allison Mack and Me: Why would a child actor turn to NXIVM?
Mara Wilson recalls meeting Allison Mack—a fellow former child actress—and reflects on how Hollywood's encouragement of rawness, spirituality, and sensitivity makes actors vulnerable. → Read More
Mara Wilson
Mara Wilson is best known for her childhood roles in Mrs. Doubtfire and Matilda. Now she plays The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home on Welcome to Night Vale, and has appeared on Broad City and Bojack Horseman. Her writing has appeared on McSweeney’s, Reductress, Cracked, The Toast, and her first book, Where Am I Now? was published by Penguin in September 2016. → Read More
Mara Wilson on the Agony and Ecstasy of Twitter
The New York Twitter Headquarters seemed deserted. It was September 2016, and all that week I had been in all kinds of office buildings, doing all kinds of publicity for my new book, but I’d never seen a place that both looked and felt so empty. → Read More
The Right to Live Differently, or Why Blame It on Fidel is My Comfort Movie
Actress turned writer Mara Wilson explains the special resonance that Julie Gavras' cinematic portrait of childhood has for her. → Read More
What If Girls Knew They Were Allowed to Be Angry?
Mara Wilson grew up wondering where the other angry girls were. → Read More
Mara Wilson
Mara Wilson is best known for her childhood roles in Mrs. Doubtfire and Matilda. Now she plays The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home on Welcome to Night Vale, and has appeared on Broad City and Bojack Horseman. Her writing has appeared on McSweeney’s, Reductress, Cracked, The Toast, and her first book, Where Am I Now? was published by Penguin in September 2016. → Read More
Mara Wilson
Mara Wilson is best known for her childhood roles in Mrs. Doubtfire and Matilda. Now she plays The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home on Welcome to Night Vale, and has appeared on Broad City and Bojack Horseman. Her writing has appeared on McSweeney’s, Reductress, Cracked, The Toast, and her first book, Where Am I Now? was published by Penguin in September 2016. → Read More
Mara Wilson
Mara Wilson is best known for her childhood roles in Mrs. Doubtfire and Matilda. Now she plays The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home on Welcome to Night Vale, and has appeared on Broad City and Bojack Horseman. Her writing has appeared on McSweeney’s, Reductress, Cracked, The Toast, and her first book, Where Am I Now? was published by Penguin in September 2016. → Read More
'Matilda' Actress Mara Wilson: A 13-Year-Old Girl Is Not "All Grown Up"
When people started saying Millie Bobby Brown was "all grown up," I felt sick—then furious. It's creepy and inappropriate to talk about young girls like they're adults. → Read More
'Matilda' Actress Mara Wilson: A 13-Year-Old Girl Is Not "All Grown Up"
When people started saying Millie Bobby Brown was "all grown up," I felt sick—then furious. It's creepy and inappropriate to talk about young girls like they're adults. → Read More
For All the Girls (Or, How Marielle Heller's Adaptation of The Diary of a Teenage Girl Helped Me Stop Worrying and Love the Book)
Writer and actress Mara Wilson traces her complex relationship over time with Phoebe Gloeckner's book, and then its big-screen version. → Read More
For All the Girls (Or, How Marielle Heller's Adaptation of The Diary of a Teenage Girl Helped Me Stop Worrying and Love the Book)
Writer and actress Mara Wilson traces her complex relationship over time with Phoebe Gloeckner's book, and then its big-screen version. → Read More
My Lost Mother’s Last Receipt
We found the purse in the basement, 20 years after her death. → Read More
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: List: What a Straight Man’s Favorite Musical Says About Him.
The Music Man He logged more than 50 hours of detention in high school. Les Miserables He took inspirational school assemblies very serious... → Read More
List: What a Straight Man’s Favorite Musical Says About Him
The Music Man He logged more than 50 hours of detention in high school. Les Miserables He took inspirational school assemblies very seriously. Pha... → Read More