{"id":26161,"date":"2025-12-22T19:22:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T19:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=26161"},"modified":"2025-12-22T19:22:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T19:22:40","slug":"mara-wilson-left-hollywood-after-matilda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=26161","title":{"rendered":"Mara Wilson left Hollywood after \u2018Matilda\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the early 1990s, audiences fell in love with former child star Mara Wilson, who rose to fame in hit family films like <em>Mrs. Doubtfire<\/em> and <em>Miracle on 34th Street<\/em>. Despite early success, Wilson says Hollywood lost interest as she grew older and was no longer seen as \u201ccute,\u201d a shift that deeply affected her confidence and career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After starring in <em>Matilda<\/em>, Wilson stepped away from acting, later describing fame as exhausting and unhappy\u2014especially after losing her mother. Now a writer, she has reflected openly on child stardom, rejection, and identity in essays for <em>The Guardian<\/em> and in her memoir, finding fulfillment away from Hollywood\u2019s spotlight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the early 1990s, audiences fell in love with former child star Mara Wilson, who rose to fame in hit family films like Mrs. Doubtfire and Miracle&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":26162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":868,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26163,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26161\/revisions\/26163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}