Friday, 25 April 2014

Hollywood's Shortest Actors


Stars come in all shapes and sizes, and these actors prove your height doesn't decide your talent. Here are Hollywood's shortest actors.


Verne Troyer, 2'8". Verne got his start as a stuntman (he did stunts for an infant in Baby's Day Out ), but is widely known as Mini-Me in the Austin Powers series.





Peter Dinklage , 4'5". Dinklage is now well known for his work on the series Game of Thrones as Tyrion Lannister. When asked if he should be the "spokesman for little people," he said , "I don't know what I would say. Everyone's different. Every person my size has a different life, a different history. Different ways of dealing with it. Just because I'm seemingly okay with it, I can't preach how to be okay with it. I don't think I still am okay with it. There are days when I’m not."



Gary Coleman , 4'8". Coleman is famous for playing Arnold Jackson in Diff'rent Strokes, but mismanagement of his salary by his parents and trusted associated led him to declare bankruptcy. He sadly passed due to chronic health problems at the age of 42.





Danny DeVito , 5'0". Devito became a star after being featured in Taxi and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. He has also directed and produced several features, such as Throw Momma From the Train, Death to smoochy , and the film this article is named after. He recently underwent a bit of a career resurrection when he began working on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.





Daniel Radcliffe , 5'5". Radcliffe once told MTV News, "I was worried on a personal level because I wanted to be slightly taller than I am, ideally. But I've now accepted it. Basically, I came to the conclusion a while ago that you can either be really bitter about it or you can make loads of funny jokes. When I meet people now and they all say, 'God you're so much shorter than I expected!' I always say, 'No! I'm actually slightly further away than you think', which confuses them."



Jack Black, 5'6". Black actually made his acting debut at 13 in a commercial for Pitfall!. After several bit roles, he appeared in High Fidelity – and the rest is history.




Elijah Wood , 5'6". Wood didn't mind using his slight stature to work on the Lord of the Rings trilogy and play the 3-foot-tall Frodo. Coincidentally the man playing his cousin Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit, Martin Freeman is also 5'6”.



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