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 (1993) and went on to play Matilda Wormwood in Matilda (1996). Wilson retired from acting in 2000 to focus on writing, and later returned to acting in 2012.
Her play Sheeple was produced in 2013 for the New York International Fringe Festival. She also published her memoir Where Am I Now in 2016.
In 2019, Wilson told bi.org,
I remember thinking to myself when I was young that bisexuality made more sense to me than being straight or being gay. It made more sense to me intrinsically. I thought, "Well, yeah, it makes sense to me that people would be attracted to more than one kind of person." And I remember having that thought, but thinking: "But that's just sort of an abstract thing; that's not a real thought."
And I remember being attracted to girls and having crushes on girls in middle school, and at a really young age, too. I think that when I was like prepubescent, I didn't really realize that they were crushes. In middle school and high school, I would think that they were crushes, but then be like, "No, of course not, it's something else." I would blame it on something else. It took a really long time.[1]