She’s one of Australia’s most successful movie stars. But that’s pretty much the end of what we know for sure about Rebel Wilson.
Rebel Wilson celebrated her 29th birthday this year.
Which is interesting, because Rebel is actually a 36-year-old called Melanie Elisabeth Bowndes who graduated from Parramatta’s Tara Anglican School in 1997.
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Her online academic transcripts say this. As do her school friends.
“She finished yr 12 in 1997, and was our deputy head girl. Definitely not 29 years-old,” commented a schoolmate, Lauren Thomas.
When Mamamia reached out to Rebel’s Sydney and LA-based reps to clarify her age, neither would do so.
“We don’t discuss personal details of any of our clients,” Jacinta Waters from Creative Representation told us.
But that, of course, does not stop others from doing exactly that.
“I worked with her on a theatre production when I was around 12-13, at that time she was studying law at university – which would put her around 19-20,” a former co-star told Mamamia.
“I’m 28. If I was around 13 when she was at university how can we suddenly be the same age?”
Family members also seem baffled by Rebel’s “new” age.
“Shes [sic] not really 29 and its [sic] not her birthday …” Rebecca Clare Bownds, Wilson’s cousin, commented on a Mamamia story about Wilson back in February.
Rebel Wilson is not the first celebrity to lie about her age. How old you are has a direct relationship to how much – and what kind of – work you get in Hollywood.
But recently, Rebel went as far as to say that she was too young for some roles she’d auditioned for.