On Campus - Tuesday, December 9, 2008 13:54 - 3 Comments

Grown Up Matilda Puts on a Show

If there’s one thing that gives NYU its “#1 dream school” status, it’s the fact that a bunch of famous people come here to study. From famous actors to the children of famous actors and even British socialites, they are the people whose existence we pretend we’re too cool to acknowledge, but secretly check out (and perhaps even glare at) when they occupy nearby space.

But while NYU celebs like Peaches Geldof and the Olsens attention whore as much as possible, some are a little more low key, eliciting curiosity. Case in point: Mara Wilson, the now grown-up girl who played Matilda, every child genius’s role model. And yet the mere mention of “Matilda” brings out Mara’s wrath (or so I’ve heard). Seems like someone’s been trying to bury her former life as a child actor.

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