Mara Wilson Wiki, Biography, Age, Spouse, Height, Net Worth, Fast Facts

Mara Wilson Wiki, Biography

Mara Elizabeth Wilson was born in Burbank, California, on July 24, 1987,^[2] the oldest daughter of Burbank PTA school volunteer Suzie Wilson (née Shapiro; 1953–1996) and KTLA broadcast engineer Mike Wilson.^[3] Her mother was Jewish, while her father is half Irish.^[4][5][6] She was raised Jewish^[7] but became an atheist when she was 15.^[8] She has three older brothers named Danny, Jon, and Joel, and a younger sister named Anna.^[9] She is a cousin of political commentator and media host Ben Shapiro,^[10][11] but has disavowed him due to differences arising from his conservative views and her opposing progressive beliefs.^[12] They have no contact with each other.^[13]

Wilson’s mother was diagnosed with breast cancer on March 10, 1995,^[14] and died on April 26, 1996. The film Matilda was dedicated to her memory.^[15] Wilson later recalled that this affected her passion for acting.^[16] At age 12, Wilson was diagnosed with OCD.^[17] She has also been diagnosed with ADHD.^[18] She attended Idyllwild Arts Academy in Idyllwild, California. After graduation in 2005, she relocated to New York City to continue her studies at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, graduating in 2009.^[19] She appeared in her own one-woman show called Weren’t You That Girl? while in college.

Charity work

In 2015, Wilson collaborated with Project UROK, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to aid teens with mental illness.

Personal life

As of 2013, Wilson resides in the Queens borough of New York City. She came out as bisexual during an interview with Medium in September 2017.

In 2015, Wilson appeared in a video by the mental health charity Project UROK in which she discussed the mental illnesses she has experienced, including anxiety, depression, and OCD.^[48] She also discussed her history of mental illness on Paul Gilmartin’s podcast The Mental Illness Happy Hour.

In a 2017 op-ed in Elle magazine, Wilson defended 13-year-old actress Millie Bobby Brown after commentators sexualized Brown’s public image.^[50][51] In a 2021 New York Times op-ed, she commented on the documentary Framing Britney Spears and the parallels between their lives as child stars.^[52] She recalled an incident in which she was asked to comment on the burgeoning sexuality of an 18-year-old Spears when she herself was barely 13, and expressed relief at largely escaping oversexualization of her public image compared to Spears. She described her disappointment when a reporter called her a “spoiled brat” after she stated that she wanted the day off on her 13th birthday instead of granting interviews. She apologized for sounding like a “spoiled brat”.

She is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.