Small and Bold: What the Dwarf Actors Who Took Hollywood Look Like

Despite their small size, they definitely do not go unnoticed!

He is perhaps the most famous dwarf actor today. The role of Tyrion Lannister in the television series Game of Thrones brought him worldwide fame, for which he received four Emmy and Golden Globe awards. By the way, Dinklage became the first dwarf to be nominated for multiple major film awards at once. Her height is 135 centimeters.

Peter made his film debut in the mid-1990s, starting out in arthouse films, then moving on to Hollywood. He starred with Sidney Lumet in the film “Find Me Guilty”, starred in the blockbuster “X-Men: Days of Future Past”, played the role of a red dwarf in the film “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian”. And Dinklage regularly plays in the theater, including taking part in classic productions by Chekhov and other authors. This proves once again that he is a talented and versatile actor.

This actor is well known to the viewer, because he played episodic roles in films that were popular and loved by Soviet and Russian audiences: “The Twelve Chairs”, “Kin-dza-dza!”, “The Madhouse”. It was Fedorov, whose height was 130 centimeters, who played the role of a creature in Heart of a Dog before the character turned into a man and became Sharikov, played by Vladimir Tolokonnikov.

But Vladimir did not plan to become an actor at all: in 1964 he graduated from the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, where he himself was a student of Kurchatov, and went to work at the Ministry’s Institute of Biophysics of Health of the USSR. However, when Fedorov was 32, the filmmakers took notice. Director Alexander Ptushko invited the young scientist to play the role of the evil wizard Chernomor in the fairy-tale film Ruslan and Lyudmila, and this is how his successful film career began. Fedorov lived 82 years and died in 2021.

Elena Gant was born in Russia, but later moved to California, where she now lives. There the woman married Preston Gant, an actor, assistant director and producer, and also began a career in show business.

Although Elena’s height is only 132 centimeters, she has a rather spectacular appearance: light curls, lush breasts. In America, Gant rose to fame starring in the reality series Little Women, where little women like her talked about their lives. Recently, she moved to family and active social networks, where she talks about her life with her husband and three children.

Meredith became the first woman with dwarfism (and her height is only 122 centimeters) to star in an American prime time series – she played the character of lawyer Emily Resnick in the television series CBS Family Law. After that, she got another main role – Matilda “Matty” Webber in the CBS series “MacGyver”.

His film career immediately took off. Meredith passed her first casting in 1999, leaving behind 500 contestants. Before that, she managed to get a master’s degree in clinical psychology – and not in vain. According to the actress, the upbringing gave her the opportunity to better understand character dynamics in preparation for roles.

Just look at the photo and the familiar music of the Fort Boyard show is already starting to ring in my head. The whole world recognized the French actor André Boucher as the guardian of Passepartout, who accompanied the players to all the tests. The height of the actor is 120 centimeters, but this did not prevent him from making a career in television. In addition to Fort Boyard, Boucher performed in the illusionist Gilles Arthur’s show and in TV movies. Star sickness André did not strike – even at the height of his popularity he continued to work as a ticket clerk in the Paris metro.

Michael J Anderson wanted to pursue a career as a scientist and even managed to work at NASA. He thus created one of the most mystical and frightening images on the screen. He is the same dwarf from Twin Peaks. Series director David Lynch was struck by Anderson with his unusual ability to speak words backwards, after which his role was greatly expanded and the trick was used on set. The film’s “reversed” phrases again scrolled backwards, creating an unusual phonetic effect.

Then the actor got a full role in Lynch’s film Mulholland Drive. There, by the way, his character is of medium height, so the actor had to use prostheses. In recent years, the actor has not starred in films.

Do you recognize this actor by sight? But you certainly know him! It’s just that in his most famous movie, he spends all of his screen time inside props. Kenny Baker played robot R2-D2 in seven episodes of George Lucas’ star-space saga. The role was not easy: even a dwarf with a height of 112 centimeters was cramped in the body, and he also had to control the movements and “voice” of the droid. But Baker’s work was appreciated by the director himself, noting that he gave R2-D2 a recognizable character.

Kenny began his career in the circus, and in the late 1990s he began performing in the stand-up genre. Baker was married to a woman with dwarfism, they had two children, who however did not transmit the disease. The actor died aged 81 in 2016.

This actor also started with George Lucas. After learning there was a cast of dwarf actors, 11-year-old Davis came to audition and got the role of the alien Ewok Wickett. In adulthood, the actor appeared in another cult saga – Harry Potter films. There he played Professor Flitwick and the goblin Griphook.

But his most famous role remains the Leprechaun in the 1990s horror film series of the same name. Davis is married to a woman with dwarfism, they have two children who inherited the disease.

The charismatic and smiley actor might just rival Dinklage in terms of Hollywood popularity. Martin debuted in 2001 in a cameo role on Planet of the Apes, where he wasn’t even listed in the credits. But then the career took off. Klebb’s lucky ticket was removed from the casting of the film “Pirates of the Caribbean”, where he received the role of the pirate Marty, who appears both in the first part and in the sequels. In total, the actor, whose height is 124 centimeters, has more than a hundred roles in the filmography, and he also manages a non-profit foundation that helps people with dwarfism.