Growth is, without a doubt, not everything. Short stars prove that they have plenty of talent, and a lack of centimeters is not a hindrance to real beauty.

Lucy Liu

The height of the 44-year-old star of the series “Elementary” Lucy Liu is 160 centimeters. However, her miniature stature and fragile physique did not prevent the actress from playing Oresh Ishi, a professional killer and member of the Yakuza in Tarantino’s cult “Kill Bill,” or one of the “angels” of the mysterious Charlie.

Vanessa Hudgens

Glamorous teen icon Vanessa Hudgens became a star after starring in High School Musical when she was only 17 years old, but she never grew taller than 155 centimeters.

Rooney Mara

“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” and Oscar nominee Rooney Mara has grown by only 160 centimeters. However, how much can fit into such a modest height - both the talent of the actress and a big heart(Rooney Mara is passionate about helping the people of Kenya), and taste (the actress is considered one of the most stylish stars).

Lady Gaga

Who would have thought, but superstar Lady Gaga is a real inch real life with her being 155 centimeters! Perhaps this is why it is almost impossible to find the singer wearing shoes with at least a relatively reasonable heel.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

The star of the series “The Client List,” Jennifer Love Hewitt, stands confidently on her feet, despite her not at all outstanding height of 158 centimeters, and they say she is even going to marry her colleague on the series and the father of her unborn child, Brian Hallisey.

Annasophia Robb

19-year-old actress Annasophia Robb, who plays young Carrie Bradshaw in the TV series “The Carrie Diaries,” is not very tall, with only 152 centimeters between her and the floor.

Rachel Bilson

One of the most famous Hollywood inches, Rachel Bilson, with a height of 155 centimeters, has been dating “Anakin Skywalker” Hayden Christensen, whose height is about 187 centimeters, for almost six years.

Reese Witherspoon

American actress Reese Witherspoon is short - only 155 centimeters - but her growth could not be slowed down. She has an Oscar, an Emmy, and a cartload of various film and television awards, an active social position, a lucrative contract with AVON, three children and a beloved husband.

Christina Aguilera

A live guide on how not to lose weight and gain weight, pop star Christina Aguilera is only 157 centimeters. That is why even two or three kilograms overweight look so scary on her.

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Hayden Panettiere

152 centimeters - is it a lot or a little? To play basketball is probably not enough, but to date a boxer whose height is over two meters? Just right! It's all about the star of the series "Heroes" and "Nashville" Hayden Panettiere, who is increasingly seen with Wladimir Klitschko. They are separated by at least half a meter upward and about a hundredweight in width. But love is so...

Natalie Portman

They say that when Natalie Portman was preparing for her Oscar role in Black Swan, she lost almost seven kilograms, which, given her fragile physique and petite height - only 160 centimeters, is a huge feat.

Jada Pinkett Smith

Miniature Jada - only 152 centimeters - has been living in happy marriage with Will Smith, who is 36 centimeters taller than her. And nothing, somehow they cope.

Zoe Kravitz

The daughter of the famous musician Lenny Kravitz, Zoe, followed in her father’s footsteps. No, not in the sense that she became a singer, but in the sense that she did not set a record for height. As you know, Lenny himself is much lower than the average male height - 170 centimeters. His daughter is a tiny little thing with her 156 centimeters.

Alyssa Milano

The star of “Charmed” and Mistresses, 40-year-old Alyssa Milano is a successful woman in many ways. Actress, businesswoman, goodwill ambassador of the UN Children's Fund - and this with a height of 155 centimeters! However, Alyssa doesn’t bother much about this and rarely even wears heels.

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Anna Kendrick

For her role in the film “Up in the Air,” the miniature Anna Kedrick, only 157 centimeters, was nominated for an Oscar, a Golden Globe, a Screen Actor Guild Awards and a BAFTA.

Salma Hayek

The most famous Mexican in Hollywood and also the wife of a French billionaire, Salma Hayek can boast of both an outstanding film career and an equally outstanding bust. However, with growth, not everything is so luxurious: the actress has grown by only 157 centimeters.

Eva Longoria

“Desperate Housewife” Eva Longoria is only 155 centimeters tall, but there is so much talk about her! And even George Clooney tried to hit on her, but to no avail.

Not only long-legged beauties become famous, as you will see now.
I present photographs of celebrities whose height does not exceed 160 centimeters.
Kylie Minogue
Height is 155 cm, regularly takes first place in the ratings of “Celebrity with the most beautiful legs»

Dolly Parton
She is 152 cm tall and is an American country singer and film actress who has written more than 600 songs and reached the top position of Billboard magazine's country charts twenty-five times.

Eva Longoria
Height is 157 cm. Those who saw Eva live deny this fact. They say that her height is hardly 153 cm, and maybe even less.

Salma Hayek
Height is 157 cm. Salma Hayek is the most successful Mexican actress in America, she is married to a French millionaire, and at the age of 42 she gave birth to a daughter.

Vanessa Hudgens
Height is 158 cm. From the age of 8, Vanessa began participating in theatrical and musical productions. Vanessa is both an actress and a singer. This young actress's style is extremely popular among her many fans.

Hilary Duff
Height is 155 cm. In 1988, Hilary played her first leading role. It was a movie about a kindly drawn ghost, Casper Meets Wendy.

Megan Fox
Height 162 cm. Ideal figure Megan is from nature... The beauty has genes of the French, Irish and even Indians in her blood.

Danica Patrick
Height 150 cm. Best known as the female driver who finished fourth in the Indian 500 mile championship in 2005. Danica's fourth-place finish in the Indianapolis 500 made her one of the most famous women in racing history.

Alyssa Milano
Height is 157 cm. In 1985, Alice starred in the action film “Commando”, where she played the role of the daughter of Arnold Schwarzenegger himself. After this, success no longer leaves her.

10. Christina Ricci (155 cm)

Christina Ricci became a star when, as a schoolgirl, she stunningly embodied the role of Wendy Addams in the gothic comedy “The Addams Family.” Later, her specific appearance, which made Ricci the ideal Wednesday, became more of a curse than a blessing, but the actress still continued to act regularly. True, mainly in arthouse films like the risky “Moan of the Black Snake.” Although she can also be seen in blockbusters such as Sleepy Hollow and Speed ​​Racer. Ricci is currently working on the series Z: The Beginning of Everything, which will tell the story of Zelda Fitzgerald, the mentally ill wife of the American literary classic F. Scott Fitzgerald.

9. Carrie Fisher (155 cm)

Everyone knows that Carrie Fisher became famous all over the world when she played Princess Leia in Star Wars. What is less well known is that in the 1990s and 2000s she was one of Hollywood's leading "script doctors," polishing other people's scripts but not getting credited. Unfortunately, Fisher was unable to help George Lucas make her a star. Even after her polish, the scripts for the Star Wars prequels were not sweet... Last year, Fisher returned to Wars and starred in the film star Wars: The Force Awakens" along with his adult daughter Billie Laurd, actress of the TV series Scream Queens.

8. Judi Dench (155 cm)

The leading British theater star of her generation (and perhaps of the entire post-war period), Judi Dench was known almost exclusively for her stage roles for decades. Her on-screen breakthrough was her invitation to the role of M in the James Bond series. After Dench's appearance in GoldenEye, she played the British queen in Shakespeare in Love and won an Oscar. To date, she already has six acting Oscar nominations (not counting the Shakespeare nomination). Despite her advanced age, she continues to actively act and act.

7. Ellen Page (155 cm)

Beginning her career in her native Canadian television, Ellen Page attracted the attention of critics and producers when she starred in the arthouse horror thriller Lollipop. She portrayed the superheroine Kitty Pryde in the blockbuster “X-Men: The Last Stand,” but her greater fame came when she starred in the arthouse tragicomedy “Juno.” The role earned Page an Oscar nomination and the pleasant realization that she might have been the best actress in Hollywood that year. After all, the statuette was awarded to the Frenchwoman Marion Cotillard. Both stars later starred in the blockbuster Inception. Page is currently working on a remake of the sci-fi horror film Flatliners.

6. AnnaSophia Robb (152 cm)

AnnaSophia Robb gained international fame when she starred as Violet in Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but she truly rose to fame and even became a cult internet character after her tragic role in the children's drama Bridge to Terabithia. She was later chosen to portray young Carrie Bradshaw in The Carrie Diaries (a prequel to Sex and the City), but the show only lasted two seasons. Robb was recently seen in the historical series Mercy Street. She doesn't like it when her long length is cut double name, and insists on being called "AnnaSophia".

5. Jada Pinkett Smith (152 cm)

Jada Pinkett Smith - wife famous actor Will Smith and the mother of his two children, but this is far from her only achievement in the Hollywood world. Pinkett Smith has been acting in TV since the early 1990s, and her resume includes significant roles in shows such as Underworld, Nurse Hawthorne and Gotham. She played Niobe in the Matrix sequels, voiced Gloria in the animated series Madagascar and was the main character Comedy "The Nutty Professor" We will soon see her in the movies in the comedy “Bad Moms.” By the way, Jada met Will Smith when she auditioned for the role of his character’s girlfriend in the sitcom “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.” She didn't get the job because she was considered too short compared to Smith, who is 1.88m tall. What didn't work out on screen worked out in life!

4. Imelda Staunton (152 cm)

Modest stature and pink outfits did not prevent Dolores Umbridge from becoming one of the most dangerous and disgusting villains in the Harry Potter series. By the time Imelda Staunton began playing the role, she had a quarter of a century of TV and film roles under her belt, mostly in her native Britain. In particular, she starred in the films “Citizen X” (a variation on Chikatilo’s theme), “Sense and Sensibility”, “Shakespeare in Love”, “Nanny Terrible”. Among her more recent works is the fairy in Maleficent. Mrs. Staunton's husband, actor Jim Carter from the series "Downton Abbey" and many other films and shows, is more than 30 centimeters taller than her.

3. Melissa Rausch (150 cm)

Simon Helberg, who plays Howard on the sitcom Theory big bang”, is not distinguished by his heroic height, but he may seem like a big guy in comparison with his on-screen wife. Melissa Rausch, who portrays Bernadette, is almost a head shorter than him. Before starring in one of the most successful shows on modern television, Rausch was a successful New York stand-up comedian. During the filming of Theory, she starred in several episodes of the TV series True Blood.

2. Kristin Chenoweth (150 cm)

The owner of an impeccable coloratura soprano, Kristin Chenoweth, had the opportunity to become opera star. However, she chose a career in musical theater and became a Broadway superstar after playing Glinda in the musical Wicked, based on The Wizard of Oz. Chenoweth still primarily shines on stage, but she also appears in films and on TV. For example, in last year’s thriller “The Fan” and in the cult series “The West Wing” and “Dead on Demand.” When Chenoweth recently played Maleficent in the Disney TV musical "Offspring," some critics noted that her musical number was the only scene in the film that could attract adult viewers.

1. Linda Hunt (145 cm)

Everything in the world is relative. Linda Hunt is the shortest of the honored Hollywood actresses, but she is a normal, average “size” by the standards of people with congenital growth hormone deficiency. So, her fellow sufferer Peter Dinklage is ten centimeters shorter. Hunt became famous when in 1982 she unexpectedly convincingly played a man (!) of Chinese origin (!!!) Billy Kwan in the political drama “The Year dangerous life" and received an Oscar. Since then, she has often appeared on screen as a colorful character actress and periodically works as a voice actress. Since 2009, Hunt has been playing in the TV series NCIS: Los Angeles". Actresses Bonnie Hunt and Helen Hunt are her namesakes, not relatives.

Let's start with men. The smallest famous Russian is cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, whose height is 1 m 57 cm.

Some musicians are also below average in height. For example, the leader of the Lyube group Nikolai Rastorguev (1 m 58 cm), Andrey Gubin (1 m 66 cm), Vladimir Vysotsky (1 m 70 cm), Boris Moiseev (1 m 72 cm), Nikolai Baskov (1 m 73 cm ). Among the actors on this list are Anton Bogdanov, Evgeny Stychkin (both 1 m 72 cm), Mikhail Galustyan (1 m 63 cm), Alexander Yakin (1 m 66 cm), Alexander Tsekalo (1 m 67 cm), Timur Rodriguez ( 1 m 68 cm), Pavel Derevyanko (1 m 70 cm).

Short stature and some famous politicians. Joseph Stalin's height, for example, was only 1 m 62 cm, Dmitry Medvedev - 1 m 63 cm, and Vladimir Putin - 1 m 70 cm.

Among writers and poets, the shortest are Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (1 m 60 cm), Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin (1 m 61 cm), Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky and Sergei Yesenin had a height of 1 m 68 cm.

Russian short female stars

Among famous women the shortest member of the Tatu group is Yulia Volkova - her height is only 1 m 54 cm.

Actress Svetlana Svetikova is 1 m 57 cm tall, and Yulia Savicheva and Anna Khilkevich are 1 m 59 cm. The singer Maxim is 1 m 60 cm tall, and the prima donna Alla Pugacheva is 1 m 62 cm. Gymnast Alina Kabaeva and singer Natasha Koroleva are tall 1 m 63 cm. Singer Glukoza and actresses Ksenia Borodina and Anfisa Chekhova have grown to 1 m 65 cm. The height of singer Sati Kazanova is 1 m 67 cm, actresses Anna Semenovich and Natalya Bochkareva are 1 m 69 cm.

Obviously, a person’s height does not affect his stardom and success in any way. Therefore, if you have this parameter below average, do not worry, but you can be glad that you are the same height as Pushkin or Alina Kabaeva!

External data is extremely important in the profession of an actor. However, sometimes the most non-standard appearance does not interfere with resounding success. Today's selection features Top 5 most short actors Hollywood.

Of course, hundreds of short actors work at the “dream factory,” but our list includes those who have achieved world fame and universal recognition, despite their small stature.

5. Daniel Radcliffe (height – 170 cm)

The British actor's film career began with the film David Copperfield. However, David gained worldwide fame the main role in the Harry Potter film series. Radcliffe was even listed 4 years ago in the Guinness Book of Records as the highest paid actor of the decade.

4. Tom Cruise (height - 170 cm)

The short Cruise most often plays the role of handsome superheroes, performing even the most impossible missions. Naturally, they try to choose not the tallest actresses for Cruise’s film partners.

3. Elijah Wood (height - 168 cm)

This short actor gained worldwide fame after starring in the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. The role of Froddo Baggins was not the first and last success for Wood - the actor remains in demand among many famous directors.

2. Dustin Hoffman (height - 166 cm)

Hoffman is one of the most famous actors in Hollywood. He has 5 nominations and 2 Oscar awards, 7 nominations and 6 Golden Globe awards, 3 BAFTA awards. For achievements in the field of cinema, the actor was awarded an honorary Cesar Award, a special award American Institute cinema art and the honorary “Golden Bear” of the Berlin Film Festival.