Miss Trunchbull is the despotic headmistress of Crunchem Hall, and her bizarre and extreme discipline is handed out over the most minor misdeeds. Small transgressions are often penalized severely, even if … See more

As children, Roald Dahl and his friends played a trick on the local sweet-shop owner, a "mean and loathsome" old woman named Ms. Pratchett, by putting a dead mouse in a gobstopper jar. This would later inspire Dahl to include a scene in Matilda where … See more

Miss Trunchbull is portrayed by Pam Ferris in the 1996 film, and by Bertie Carvel in the musical, later replaced by former Two of a Kind and Shrek The Musical See more