Miss Honey confided in Matilda with the story of her harsh upbringing. She lost her mother when she was two, her father had his wife’s stepsister live with them to keep things in order, and then he ...

Davidtz is not the only actress who has come to understand that this teacher means a lot to the queer community. In 2022, actress Lashana Lynch, who played Miss Honey in Netflix’s Matilda, an ...

Embeth Davidtz, the actress behind the world’s most adored teacher Miss Honey, has explained why she thinks her Matilda character is an out-and-out lesbian icon. In the near 30 years since Roald ...