Mara Wilson

Mara Wilson

Mara Elizabeth Wilson is an American actress and writer. She rose to prominence as a child for playing the role of Natalie Hillard in the film Mrs. Doubtfire. Wilson has a recurring role on the comedy-drama film Welcome to Night Vale as the Old Woman Who Who Lives in Your Home. She also voiced Jill Pillen in the 3rd season of Bojack Horseman.

About Mara Wilson in brief

Summary Mara WilsonMara Elizabeth Wilson is an American actress and writer. She rose to prominence as a child for playing the role of Natalie Hillard in the film Mrs. Doubtfire. She went on to play Susan Walker in Miracle on 34th Street, Matilda Wormwood in Matilda, and Lily Stone in Thomas and the Magic Railroad. Wilson retired from acting in 2000 and has since focused on writing, but returned to acting in 2012. Wilson has a recurring role on the comedy-drama film Welcome to Night Vale as the Old Woman Who Who Lives in Your Home. In May 2013, Wilson wrote an article for Cracked magazine offering an online comical interpretation of the Heimlichman scene from the movie BoJack Horseman. She also voiced Jill Pillen in the 3rd season of Bojack Horseman, and voiced an anthropomorphic spider in the season 3 premiere of Bo Jack Horseman: The Third Horseman of the Apocalypse.

Wilson was born in Burbank, California, on July 24, 1987, the oldest daughter of KTLA 5 News broadcast engineer Mike Wilson and homemaker and Burbank PTA school volunteer Suzie Wilson. She has three older brothers named Danny, Jon, and Joel, and a younger sister named Anna. Her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer on March 10, 1995, and died on April 26, 1996. Wilson attended Idyllwild Arts Academy near Palm Springs, California. After graduation in 2005, Wilson relocated to New York City, where she continued her studies at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.