Favorite Actresses Under Five Feet Tall
by jalapenoman | created - 13 Mar 2015 | updated - 09 Apr 2015 | PublicWho is your favorite actress under five foot tall (152.4 cm)?
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Note: This list does not include actresses under the age of eighteen. It also does not include celebrities mostly famous for being singers, reality stars, writers, directors, or athletes.
Note 2: Maria de Medeiros is listed on a couple of websites as being 4'6". This does not balance with photos of her standing next to taller people and appearing to be much taller. If her height can be verified, she will be added back to the list.
1. 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 ...
4' 11 1/2" or 151.13 cm
2. Veronica Lake
Actress | Sullivan's Travels
Veronica Lake was born as Constance Frances Marie Ockleman on November 14, 1922, in Brooklyn, New York. She was the daughter of Constance Charlotta (Trimble) and Harry Eugene Ockelman, who worked for an oil company as a ship employee. Her father was of half German and half Irish descent, and her ...
4' 11 1/2" or 151.13 cm
3. Kristin Chenoweth
Actress | Pushing Daisies
Kristin Chenoweth is an American stage, screen and television actress, though, depending on who you ask, Chenoweth fans may disagree on what her most famous roles are. Since Chenoweth began her career, she has been credited with roles in musicals and plays on and off-Broadway, on various television...
4' 11" or 149.86 cm
4. Kelly Stables
Actress | Superstore
Kelly Michelle Stables was born in St. Louis, Missouri where she performed at The Muny Opera. She graduated cum laude from The University of Missouri, Columbia with a BA in Communications and Theater. Upon moving to Los Angeles she quickly got involved in theater arts, acting and choreographing in ...
4' 11" or 149.86 cm
5. Charlene Tilton
Actress | Dallas
Charlene Tilton was born on December 1, 1958 in San Diego, California, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Dallas (1978), The Middle (2009) and Road Less Traveled (2017). She was previously married to Domenick Allen and Johnny Lee.
4' 11" or 149.86 cm
6. Barbara Windsor
Actress | EastEnders
Legendary EastEnders actress and Carry On star Barbara Windsor was born Barbara Ann Deeks in Stepney, London, the daughter of Rose (Ellis), a dressmaker, and John Deeks, a costermonger. She was a bright pupil at school and her parents wanted her to go to university, but after her first taste of ...
4' 11" or 149.86 cm
7. Nancy Walker
Actress | Rhoda
They say big things often come in small packages, and never was that saying more true than when sizing up the talents of that diminutive dynamo Nancy Walker. Born Anna Myrtle Swoyer in Philadelphia on May 10, 1922, she lived a born-in-a-trunk existence as the daughter of vaudevillian Dewey Barto (...
4' 11" or 149.86 cm
8. 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 ...
4' 11" or 149.86 cm
9. Joséphine de La Baume
Actress | Rush
Joséphine de La Baume was born in 1984 in Paris, France. She is an actress and writer, known for Rush (2013), The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017) and Johnny English Reborn (2011). She was previously married to Mark Ronson.
4' 11" or 149.86 cm
10. 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, "...
4' 11" or 149.86 cm
11. Lucy DeVito
Actress | Deadbeat
Lucy DeVito was born on March 11, 1983 in New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Deadbeat (2014), It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005) and Leaves of Grass (2009).
4' 11" or 149.86 cm
12. Adrienne Houghton
Actress | Coach Carter
Adrienne Eliza Bailon was born on October 24, 1983 in New York City, New York to Nilda Felix & Freddy Bailon. She was raised by her parents & her stepfather Joe Felix. She has a sister named Claudette, who's 3 years older. When they were younger, they would sing for family & friends at home. They ...
4' 11" or 149.86 cm
13. 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 ...
4' 11" or 149.86 cm
14. 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 ...
4' 10 1/2" or 148.59 cm
15. Nell Carter
Actress | Gimme a Break!
Her trademark sass complemented by a distinctively adenoidal voice that could out-snarl Eartha Kitt and Fran Drescher put together, short (4'11"), round, and robust Nell Carter was one indomitable, in-your-face firecracker...and it made her a star. She was born Nell Ruth Hardy in 1948 in Birmingham...
4' 10" or 147.32 cm
16. Molly Weir
Actress | Life with the Lyons
Molly Weir was born on March 17, 1910 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. She was an actress and writer, known for Family Affair (1954), Suspense (1962) and The Lyons Abroad (1955). She was married to Sandy Hamilton. She died on November 28, 2004 in Pinner, Middlesex, England, UK.
4' 10" or 147.32 cm
17. Wendie Jo Sperber
Actress | Back to the Future
Though she was known best for drawing laughs as whiny, excitable characters throughout her raucous film and TV career, actress/comedienne Wendie Jo Sperber showed a brave, compassionate and humane side in the last years of her life.
The California girl was born on September 15, 1958, in Los Angeles ...
4' 10" or 147.32 cm
18. Nikki Blonsky
Actress | Hairspray
Nicole Blonsky (born November 9, 1988) is an American actress, singer, dancer, and Internet personality, who is best known for her breakthrough role as Tracy Turnblad in the film Hairspray (2007), for which she won a Critics' Choice Award and received a nomination for a Golden Globe Award and a ...
4' 10" or 147.32 cm
19. 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...
4' 9" or 144.78 cm
20. Janette Tough
Actress | French and Saunders
Janette Tough was born on May 16, 1947 in Queenzieburn, Stirlingshire, Scotland, UK. She is an actress, known for French and Saunders (1987), Blackpool Bonanza (1978) and The Krankies Elektronik Komik (1985). She has been married to Ian Tough since 1969.
4' 5" or 134.62 cm
21. Mimie Mathy
Actress | Joséphine, ange gardien
Mimie Mathy was born on July 8, 1957 in Lyon, France. She is an actress and writer, known for Joséphine, ange gardien (1997), Les mercredis de la vie (1992) and Les Âmes De Papier (2023). She has been married to Gérard Benoist since August 27, 2005.
4' 4" or 132.08 cm
22. 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,...
4' 3" or 129.54 cm
23. 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 ...
4' 3" or 129.54 cm
24. 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.
3' 10" or 116.84 cm
25. 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).
3' 9" or 119.38 cm
26. Daisy Earles
Actress | Freaks
Daisy Earles came to the U.S. from Germany in the early 1920s, joining her brother and sister Harry Earles and Gracie Doll. The three of them, soon joined by sister Tiny Doll, made a handful of appearances in films before retiring from the film business in 1930 in favor of working for the Ringling ...
3' 5" or 104 cm
27. Tamara De Treaux
Tamara De Treaux was born on October 21, 1959 in California, USA. She was an actress, known for E.T. (1982), Ghoulies (1984) and Rockula (1990). She died on November 28, 1990 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
2' 7" or 78.74 cm
28. Jyoti Amge
Actress | American Horror Story
Jyoti Amge was born on December 16, 1993 in Nagpur, India. She is an actress, known for American Horror Story (2011), CAVE iN (2019) and Bigg Boss (2006).
2' 0 3/4" or 62.865 cm
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