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'''Liesel Matthews''' (born as '''Liesel Pritzker''' on [[March 14]], [[1984]] in [[Chicago, Illinois]]) is an American heiress, socialite, and actress. Liesel is an heiress to the Hyatt Hotel fortune and was a [[child actor|child actress]] who starred as Sara Crewe in ''[[A Little Princess (1995 film)|A Little Princess]]'' (1995), the film adaptation of the [[Frances Hodgson Burnett]] classic.

==Biography==

Liesel was born into the wealthy [[Pritzker family]]. She is one of twelve surviving grandchildren of patriarch Abram Nicholas Pritzker, a financier and industrialist who died in [[1986]]. Her uncle, Jay Pritzker, is the founder of the [[Hyatt Hotel]] chain, and theowned [[Braniff]] Airlines from 1983-1988. The family controls the [[TransUnion]] Credit Bureau and the [[Royal Caribbean]] Cruise Lines. The Pritzker family has been near the top of [[Forbes]] magazine's "America's Richest Families" list since the magazine began in [[1982]]. Liesel uses the stage name "Matthews" after her brother, Matthew, after a battle between her parents regarding whether she should be [[Credit (creative arts)|credited]] as Liesel Pritzker-Bagley (Bagley being her step-father's name) or simply Liesel Pritzker.

Liesel graduated from [[New Trier High School]] outside of Chicago and enrolled at [[Columbia University]]. During her freshman year of college, Liesel filed a lawsuit against her father and the Pritzker family claiming her father had misappropriated money from trusts established for Liesel and her brother.