Tilda Wormwood.

About Tilda Wormwood

Matilda Wormwood 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 year old girl who has a passion for reading books. Her parents do not recognize her great intelligence and show little interest in her, particularly her father, a secondhand car dealer who neglects and verbally abuses her. She discovers she has telekinetic powers which she uses to her advantage. She then gets adopted by Miss Honey, who has taught her at her school, who is very nice to her and does notice her intelligence. In the BBC Radio 4 two-part adaptation of the novel, she is played by Lauren Mote, and in the 1996 film, she is portrayed by American actress Mara Wilson. In the 2022 film, she is played by Alisha Weir.