Short people
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1. Verne Troyer
Actor | The Love Guru
With a decades-long career as an actor and stuntman, Verne Troyer was best known for playing "Mini-Me," Dr. Evil's smaller and more concentrated pure evil protégé, in the hit comedies Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) and Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002), and for his role in Harry ...
Height: 2' 8" (0.81 m)
2. Gabriel Pimentel
Stunts | Tropic Thunder
Gabriel Pimentel was born on July 28, 1979 in San Fernando Valley, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Tropic Thunder (2008), The Master of Disguise (2002) and Movie 43 (2013).
Height: 2' 10" (0.86 m)
3. Josh Ryan Evans
Actor | Passions
Despite being one of the smallest actors in Hollywood at 37 inches, Josh proved quality early on in life. By creating and distributing his own business cards before he was even a teenager, Josh landed a spot on "The Dancing Baby" ice cream commercial, which led to his role in Baby Geniuses (1999), ...
Height: 3' 2" (0.97 m)
4. Ed Gale
Actor | Howard the Duck
Ed left his hometown two years after graduating from Plainwell High School (Plainwell, Michigan) at the age of 20 with $41 in his pocket and hitched a ride California to pursue his dream of being not a "star", but a steady working Hollywood "actor". His very first experience in the "biz" was ...
Height: 3' 4" (1.02 m)
5. Warwick Davis
Actor | Willow
English actor Warwick Davis was born in Epsom, Surrey, England, the son of Susan J. (Pain) and Ashley Davis, an insurance broker. Davis was born with the condition spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenital (SED), which caused his dwarfism. He was educated at City of London Freemen's School. When he ...
Height: 3' 6" (1.07 m)
6. Arturo Gil
Actor | Spaceballs
Arturo Gil has a rare form of dwarfism and only stands three and half feet tall. His height hasn't stopped him from doing anything unless it's a vertical issue. A step stool or a ladder comes in handy. Gil was born in New Orleans, Louisiana but was raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico and is bilingual ...
Height: 3' 6" (1.07 m)
7. Tony Cox
Actor | Bad Santa
Tony Cox was born on March 31, 1958 in Uniontown, Alabama, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Bad Santa (2003), Spaceballs (1987) and Bad Santa 2 (2016). He has been married to Otelia since 1989. They have one child.
Height: 3' 6" (1.07 m)
8. Phil Fondacaro
Actor | The Black Cauldron
Phil Fondacaro started his career in 1981 when a casting call went out for "little people" for the feature film Under the Rainbow (1981). This was the beginning of a career that is still going strong to this day. From that time he has worked in every genre. including drama, comedy, horror and ...
Height: 3' 6" (1.07 m)
9. Michael J. Anderson
Actor | Mulholland Dr.
Michael Anderson was born in Denver, Colorado, at 10:30 P.M., on Halloween night. Subject to a genetic anomaly known as Osteogenesis Imperfecta, he grew up in a wheelchair. After graduating high school, he traveled America, singing for tips and living in his car. For six years, he attended the ...
Height: 3' 7" (1.09 m)
10. Ricardo Gil
Actor | Epic Movie
Ricardo Gil studied Fine Arts at the California of the Arts in Oakland, CA. Gil has toured nationally and internationally with Mabou Mines Dollhouse (2009) directed by Lee Breuer, since it first opened in 2003 at St. Ann's Warehouse, Brooklyn, New York, in the role of Dr. Rank. With 'Mabou Mines ...
Height: 3' 8" (1.12 m)
11. Kenny Baker
Actor | Time Bandits
Kenny Baker was born on August 24, 1934 in Birmingham, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Time Bandits (1981), Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) and The Elephant Man (1980). He was married to Eileen Baker. He died on August 13, 2016 in Preston, Lancashire, England, UK.
Height: 3' 8" (1.12 m)
12. Billy Barty
Actor | Masters of the Universe
Billy Barty was born William John Bertanzetti on October 25, 1924 in Millsboro, Pennsylvania. He began performing at age three and began making pictures in 1927. He played Mickey Rooney's little brother in the "Mickey McGuire" comedy shorts series. He was equally adept in both comedy and drama, and...
Height: 3' 9" (1.14 m)
13. Joe C.
Actor | Osmosis Jones
Joe C. was born on November 9, 1974 in Taylor, Michigan, USA. He was an actor, known for Osmosis Jones (2001), Kid Rock: Only God Knows Why (1999) and Kid Rock: Bawitdaba (1999). He died on November 16, 2000 in Taylor, Michigan, USA.
Height: 3' 9" (1.14 m)
14. Kiruna Stamell
Actress | La migliore offerta
Kiruna Stamell was born on March 13, 1981 in Paddington, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She is an actress, known for The Best Offer (2013), Moulin Rouge! (2001) and Love Hurts (2005).
Height: 3' 9" (1.14 m)
15. Mark Povinelli
Actor | Nightmare Alley
Mark Povinelli's career -including films, TV shows, theater productions and dozens of national commercials- expresses his remarkable versatility regarding the entire range of medium, style and genre from New York Theater to Studio Films, from slapstick comedy to heartfelt drama and from broad ...
Height: 3' 9" (1.14 m)
16. Debbie Lee Carrington
Actress | Men in Black
Debbie Lee Carrington was born on December 14, 1959 in San Jose, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Men in Black (1997), Total Recall (1990) and Bedtime Stories (2008). She died on March 23, 2018 in Pleasanton, California, USA.
Height: 3' 10" (1.17 m)
17. David Rappaport
Actor | Time Bandits
British actor David Rappaport earned more roles and respect than most guys his size (or any size for that matter) who attempted a professional acting career. Born with the genetic condition dwarfism (he was 3' 11"), he was often typecast in bizarre, sometimes silly and demeaning roles; but, like ...
Height: 3' 11" (1.19 m)
18. Felix Silla
Actor | Spaceballs
Felix Silla was born on January 11, 1937 in a small village outside Rome, Lazio, Italy. Silla trained as a circus performer, came to the United States in 1955, and toured with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Show. His multiple talents -- as a bareback rider, trapeze artist and tumbler -- ...
Height: 3' 11" (1.19 m)
19. Hervé Villechaize
Actor | The Man with the Golden Gun
Hervé Villechaize was born in Montauban, France on April 23, 1943. He stopped growing very early and his father (who was a surgeon) tried to find a cure by visiting several doctors and hospitals. But there was none, so Hervé had to live with his small height and also with undersized lungs. He ...
Height: 3' 11" (1.19 m)
20. Danny Woodburn
Actor | Seinfeld
Danny Woodburn is an entertainer on stage, film, television, and the comedy club circuit.
Born and raised in the Philadelphia area, he is the son of a nurse and a professional golfer. He is a graduate of Philadelphia's Temple University's School of Film and Theater and recipient of their Outstanding...
Height: 4' (1.22 m)
21. Luigi Francis Shorty Rossi
Shorty, grew up in two different worlds - one a middle/upper-class almost completely white suburban neighborhood of Los Angeles with his dwarf parents and the other in Nickerson Gardens Housing Projects in Watts, a section of South Central Los Angeles, where he lived with a family friend to avoid ...
Height: 4' (1.22 m)
22. Jack Purvis
Actor | Time Bandits
Jack Purvis was born on July 13, 1937 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Time Bandits (1981), Brazil (1985) and Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977). He was married to Marjie Purvis. He died on November 11, 1997 in Bushey, Hertfordshire, England, UK.
Height: 4' 1" (1.24 m)
23. Kiran Shah
Actor | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
In 2004, Kiran was back in New Zealand filming The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) playing a character called Ginarrbrik.
He also writes poetry; his work has been published in Britain and America.
Kiran is a "Guinness World Record" holder as the "shortest professional...
Height: 4' 1" (1.24 m)
24. Jordan Prentice
Actor | In Bruges
Jordan Prentice was born on January 30, 1973 in London, Ontario, Canada. He is an actor, known for In Bruges (2008), Howard the Duck (1986) and Mirror Mirror (2012).
Height: 4' 1" (1.24 m)
25. Keenan Cahill
Actor | Fishbowl California
Recording artist and YouTube sensation Keenan Cahill worked hard to cement his place in pop culture. For one thing, he overcame incredible adversity, suffering from a rare genetic disorder called Mucopolysaccaridosis (MPS-6) since birth. For another, at the young age of 18, Cahill achieved ...
Height: 4' 1" (1.24 m)
26. Malcolm Dixon
Actor | Time Bandits
Malcolm Dixon was born on September 1, 1934 in Auckland, County Durham, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Time Bandits (1981), Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) and Flash Gordon (1980). He was married to Anita B. Senior. He died on April 9, 2020 in the UK.
Height: 4' 1" (1.24 m)
27. Martin Klebba
Actor | The Electric State
Martin Klebba was born on June 23, 1969 in Troy, Michigan, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for The Electric State, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) and Knee High P.I. (2003). He has been married to Michelle Dilgard since June 18, 2011.
Height: 4' 1" (1.24 m)
28. Elena Fondacaro
Actress | Nerds of a Feather
There are many ways to describe Elena Fondacaro. She is a confident woman that stands strong to her talent in the entertainment business, spending her life accomplishing what some call impossible. She has fought through many stereotypes of being a successful woman in business and facing challenges ...
Height: 4' 2" (1.27 m)
29. Emmanuel Lewis
Actor | Webster
Emmanuel Lewis was born March 9th, 1971 in Brooklyn, New York. The youngest son of Margaret Lewis, a former computer-science professional, Emmanuel attended regular public schools in Brooklyn until his busy acting career took him to Hollywood. He has four siblings. His acting career began one day ...
Height: 4' 3" (1.30 m)
30. Joseph S. Griffo
Actor | Baby Doll
Joseph S. Griffo was born on May 15, 1952 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Baby Doll (2020), The Mandalorian (2019) and Killing Hasselhoff (2017).
Height: 4' 3" (1.30 m)
31. Meredith Eaton
Actress | Paranormal Activity 3
Meredith Eaton is well known for her breakout recurring role as feisty attorney Bethany Horowitz, on the ABC hit series Boston Legal (2004). Meredith has also guest starred on several critically acclaimed prime time shows, such as House M.D. (2004), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), and ...
Height: 4' 3" (1.30 m)
32. Zelda Rubinstein
Actress | Poltergeist
A marvelously quirky and distinctive 4' 3" character actress, with a larger-than-life presence on film and TV, Zelda Rubinstein gave up a long and stable career in the medical field as a lab technician in order to strive for something more self-fulfilling as middle age settled in. At the age of 45,...
Height: 4' 3" (1.30 m)
33. Deep Roy
Actor | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Deep Roy was born on January 26, 1949 in Nairobi, Kenya. He is an actor and producer, known for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and The NeverEnding Story (1984).
Height: 4' 4" (1.32 m)
34. Brad Williams
Writer | Brad Williams: Daddy Issues
Brad Williams was born on January 13, 1984 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Brad Williams: Daddy Issues (2016), Brad Williams: Fun Size (2015) and Little Evil (2017). He has been married to Jasmine Gong since 2017. They have one child.
Height: 4' 4" (1.32 m)
35. Mike Edmonds
Actor | Time Bandits
Mike Edmonds was born on January 13, 1944 in Chelmsford, Essex, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Time Bandits (1981), Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) and Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988).
Height: 4' 4" (1.32 m)
36. Sebastian Saraceno
Actor | Bedtime Stories
Sebastian Saraceno is known for Bedtime Stories (2008), Mirror Mirror (2012) and Four Foot Gangsters (2015).
Height: 4' 4" (1.32 m)
37. Karl 'Karchy' Kosiczky
Actor | The Terror of Tiny Town
Karl Slover was 21 years old when he auditioned for the "Wizard Of Oz" movie and met the other 123 little people with whom he worked through a grueling two-month production schedule. "Standing four feet four inches tall, I was the smallest Munchkin," recalls Karl. "I couldn't even reach the ...
Height: 4' 5" (1.35 m)
38. Kevin Thompson
Actor | Blade Runner
Kevin is one of 6 siblings who always stole the scenes and attention since he was born. He performed in school plays and family skits while growing up. He attended Pasadena City College and Los Angeles Valley College studying cinematography while touring with The Original Harmonica Band and The ...
Height: 4' 5" (1.35 m)
39. Peter Dinklage
Actor | Game of Thrones
Peter Dinklage is an American actor. Since his breakout role in The Station Agent (2003), he has appeared in numerous films and theatre plays. Since 2011, Dinklage has portrayed Tyrion Lannister in the HBO series Game of Thrones (2011) . For this he won an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a...
Height: 4' 5" (1.35 m)
40. Michael Gilden
Actor | Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
Michael Gilden was born on September 22, 1962 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983), Pulp Fiction (1994) and Southland Tales (2006). He was married to Meredith Eaton and Elena Fondacaro. He died on December 5, 2006 in Los ...
Height: 4' 6" (1.37 m)
41. Jason 'Wee Man' Acuña
Writer | Jackass 3D
Jason 'Wee Man' Acuña was born on May 16, 1973 in Pisa, Tuscany, Italy. He is an actor and writer, known for Jackass 3D (2010), Elf-Man (2012) and Jackass Number Two (2006).
Height: 4' 7" (1.40 m)
42. Meinhardt Raabe
Self | Little People
Raabe was born in Watertown, Wisconsin, in 1915. In 1934, he was a member of the Midget City cast at the Chicago World's Fair. The money from his appearances at the fair and other places was how he paid for his bachelor's in accounting and master's in business administration.
His wife, Marie ...
Height: 4' 7" (1.40 m)
43. Gary Coleman
Actor | Diff'rent Strokes
Without a doubt Gary Coleman was THE child TV star of the late 1970s and early 1980s. A refreshingly confident little tyke with sparkling dark, saucer-like eyes and an ingratiating, take-on-anyone burst of personality, the boy charmed the pants right off of TV viewers the minute he was glimpsed in ...
Height: 4' 8" (1.42 m)
44. Heather O'Rourke
Actress | Poltergeist
Heather Michele O'Rourke was born on December 27, 1975 in Santee, San Diego, California, to Kathleen, a seamstress, and Michael O'Rourke, a construction worker. She had German, Danish, English, and Irish ancestry.
Heather entered American cinematic pop-culture before first grade. She was sitting ...
Height: 4' 8" (1.42 m)
R.I.P :(
45. Nicole Polizzi
Actress | The Three Stooges
Nicole Polizzi was born on November 23, 1987 in Santiago, Chile. She is a producer and writer, known for The Three Stooges (2012), Movie 43 (2013) and Supernatural (2005). She has been married to Jionni LaValle since November 29, 2014. They have three children.
Height: 4' 8" (1.42 m)
46. Linda Hunt
Actress | The Year of Living Dangerously
Linda Hunt is a veteran character actress who had only just begun acting in motion pictures when director Peter Weir required her peculiarities to animate one of cinema's most esoteric characters, Billy Kwan, the intellectual and virtuous Chinese-Australian dwarf and photographer, in the Australian...
Height: 4' 9" (1.45 m)
47. Dana Michael Woods
Actor | Girl in Progress
Dana Michael Woods is known for Girl in Progress (2012), The Haunted Hathaways (2013) and Shameless (2011).
Height: 4' 9½" (1.46 m)
48. Édith Piaf
Soundtrack | A Star Is Born
When one thinks of Edith Piaf, one thinks of love, sorrow and beautiful music. One did not breathe without the other two. Born in Paris practically on the streets on December 19, 1915, she struggled from day one, the daughter of street performers. The mother, a singer, eventually abandoned both ...
Height: 4' 9¾" (1.47 m)
49. Estelle Getty
Actress | The Golden Girls
She was truly one mother of a mom...on stage, on film and on TV. A favorite firecracker on 80s and 90s television, tiny character player Estelle Getty became best known for her carping, meddlesome moms -- complete with bemused, cynical looks, irreverent digs and dead-pan Henny Youngman-like ...
Height: 4' 10½" (1.49 m)
50. Danielle Harris
Actress | Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
Danielle Harris is an American actress and film director from Plainview, New York. She is regarded as a scream queen for her many roles in horror films. Her better known roles include protagonist Jamie Lloyd in "Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers" (1988) and "Halloween 5: The Revenge of ...
Height: 4' 11" (1.50 m)
51. June Foray
Actress | Mulan
Legendary voice actress June Foray was born June Lucille Forer on September 18, 1917 in Springfield, Massachusetts, to Maurice Forer and Ida Edith Robinson, who wed in Hampden, Massachusetts. Her father, who was Jewish, emigrated from Novgorod, Imperial Russia, while her Massachusetts-born mother ...
Height: 4' 11" (1.50 m)
52. Lil' Kim
Soundtrack | You Got Served
Kimberly Denise Jones, was born on July 11, 1974, to parents Linwood Jones and Ruby Mae. She is of Native American and African American descent. Standing just 4 feet 11 inches tall Kimberly Jones seems much less than being just your average girl in the hood, but when "Lil' Kim" was introduced to ...
53. Judy Garland
Actress | The Wizard of Oz
One of the brightest, most tragic movie stars of Hollywood's Golden Era, Judy Garland was a much-loved character whose warmth and spirit, along with her rich and exuberant voice, kept theatre-goers entertained with an array of delightful musicals.
She was born Frances Ethel Gumm on 10 June 1922 in ...
Height: 4' 11½" (1.51 m)
54. Melissa Rauch
Actress | The Big Bang Theory
Melissa Ivy Rauch was born in Marlboro, New Jersey. She attended Marymount Manhattan College in New York City, where she received a BFA degree. While going to school, Melissa performed stand-up comedy around Manhattan, and soon made a name for herself on the NYC comedy scene. Her one-woman show, "...
Height: 5' (1.52 m)
55. Carmen Miranda
Soundtrack | Greenwich Village
Carmen Miranda was born Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha on February 9, 1909, near Porto, Portugal, in the town of Marco de Canavezes. Not long after her birth her family moved to Brazil, where her father was involved in the produce business. The family settled in the then-capital city of Rio de ...
Height: 5' (1.52 m)
56. Danny DeVito
Actor | Matilda
Danny DeVito has amassed a formidable and versatile body of work as an actor, producer and director that spans the stage, television and film.
Daniel Michael DeVito Jr. was born on November 17, 1944, in Neptune, New Jersey, to Italian-American parents. His mother, Julia (Moccello), was a homemaker. ...
Height: 5' (1.52 m)
57. Kourtney Kardashian
Actress | He's All That
Kourtney was born in Los Angeles, California as the eldest of four children of Kris Jenner (née Kristen Mary Houghton) and attorney Robert Kardashian, with siblings Kim Kardashian, Khloé Kardashian, and Rob Kardashian. Her father was of Armenian descent and her mother is of mostly English and ...
Height: 5' (1.52 m)
58. Mary-Kate Olsen
Actress | It Takes Two
Mary-Kate Olsen (born June 13, 1986) is an American actress, fashion designer, producer, author, and businesswoman. She co-founded luxury fashion brands The Row, Elizabeth and James, and the more affordable lines Olsenboye and StyleMint alongside her fraternal twin sister Ashley Olsen. Olsen ...
Height: 4' 11¾" (1.52 m)
59. Christina Ricci
Actress | Casper
Precocious, outspoken child-teen starlet of the 1990s, Christina Ricci was born on February 12, 1980 in Santa Monica, California, the youngest of four children of Sarah (Murdoch), a realtor, and Ralph Ricci, a lawyer and therapist. She is of Italian (from her paternal grandfather), Irish, and ...
Height: 5' 1" (1.55 m)
60. Janeane Garofalo
Actress | Mystery Men
Janeane, the petite woman with the acerbic wit, was born in Newton, New Jersey, in 1964, to Joan, a secretary, and Carmine Garofalo, an Exxon executive. She is of Italian and Irish descent. Janeane had many jobs before breaking into show biz. She worked as a bike messenger, a shoe saleswoman, ...
Height: 5' 1" (1.55 m)
61. June Allyson
Actress | Executive Suite
American leading lady whose sweet smile and sunny disposition made her the prototypical girl-next-door of American movies of the 1940s. Raised in semi-poverty in Bronx neighborhoods by her divorced mother, Allyson (nee Ella Geisman) was injured in a fall at age eight and spent four years confined ...
Height: 5' 1" (1.55 m)
62. Mae Whitman
Actress | One Fine Day
Mae was born in Los Angeles, California to Pat Musick, a voice artist, and Jeffrey Whitman, a personal manager and set construction coordinator. She began her career with a voice-over for a Tyson Chicken commercial. Whitman attended Ribét Academy, a private preparatory school in Los Angeles.
Whitman...
Height: 5' 1" (1.55 m)
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