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Matilda Wormwood, also known by her adoptive name Matilda Honey, is the fictional title character of the bestselling 1988 children's novel Matilda by Roald Dahl.She is a highly precocious five and a half (six and a half in the 1996 film) year old girl who has a passion for reading books.
Matilda is a 1988 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl.It was published by Jonathan Cape.The story features Matilda Wormwood, a precocious child with an uncaring mother and father, and her time in a school run by the tyrannical headmistress Miss Trunchbull.
Miss Agatha Trunchbull is the fictional headmistress of Crunchem Hall Primary School (or Elementary School), and the main antagonist in Roald Dahl's 1988 novel Matilda and its adaptations: the 1996 film Matilda (played by Pam Ferris), the 2011 musical, and the 2022 musical film adaptation (played by Emma Thompson).
In the musical (stage and movie), Matilda tells a story of an escapologist and acrobat who fell in love to the librarian, Mrs. Phelps. Mrs. Phelps is in the beginning Dahl's book, but has limited ...
Roald Dahl's terrifying headmistress gets a multifaceted portrayal by Emma Thompson in the Netflix movie-musical.
Matilda's Mom Likes Dancing, Not Bingo. The change from bingo to dancing as Zinnia Wormwood's preferred hobby makes total sense in the musical adaptation, as there are plenty of dance numbers.
The exterior of Matilda's house is located on Youngwood Drive in Whittier, [10] while the library she visits is the Pasadena Public Library on East Walnut Street in Pasadena. [ 11 ] Suzie Wilson, Mara Wilson's mother, was diagnosed with breast cancer in March 1995 during filming, and later died on April 27, 1996, four months before the film's ...
Mara Elizabeth Wilson (born July 24, 1987) is an American actress. As a child, she played Natalie Hillard in the film Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) [2] and went on to play Susan Walker in Miracle on 34th Street (1994), the title character in Matilda (1996), and Annabel Greening in A Simple Wish (1997).