Miss Agatha Trunchbull, also known as Miss Trunchbull, or simply The Trunchbull, is the fictional headmistress of Crunchem Hall Primary School (or Elementary School), and the main antagonist in Roald Dahl's 1988 novel Matilda and its adaptations: the 1996 film Matilda (played by Pam Ferris), the 2011 musical Matilda (played by Bertie Carvel), and the 2022 film Matilda the Musical (played by Emma Thompson). She is said to look "more like a rather eccentric and bloodthirsty follower of the stag-hounds than the headmistress of a nice school for children".[1]
Miss Trunchbull is depicted as an unwholesome role model, a fierce tyrannical monster who "frightened the life out of pupils and teachers alike", notorious for her cruel and wildly idiosyncratic discipline, with trivial misdeeds (including simply wearing pigtails) incurring punishments up to potentially-fatal physical discipline.
^Dahl, Roald (2012). Roald Dahl: Three Tales of Magic and Mischief. Random House. p. 214.
Miss Agatha Trunchbull, also known as MissTrunchbull, or simply The Trunchbull, is the fictional headmistress of Crunchem Hall Primary School (or Elementary...
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included one crucial to the story as a practical joke on the malevolent MissTrunchbull, in his novel Matilda. List of fictional frogs and toads Macionis,...
revival in 2016 and in the West End in 2017. In 2018 and 2019, he played MissTrunchbull in Matilda the Musical in the West End. He reprised this role in the...
Actress at the National Television Awards. In film, Ferris played Miss Agatha Trunchbull in Matilda (1996), Marge Dursley in Harry Potter and the Prisoner...
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