Short Celebrity Men: Male Stars Who Are Surprisingly Short
These short celebrity men might look a lot taller on the big screen but if you’ve ever encountered a Hollywood actor in person, you might be surprised by their height.
The average height of a man in the United States is about 5 feet, 9 inches, according to Health, and some of the most famous celebrities in the entertainment industry are on the shorter side of this average!
Many of the Marvel superheroes are well under six feet tall, like Tom Holland, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr. and Don Cheadle. Fellow Spider-Man Tobey Maguire, for example, comes in at 5 feet, 8 inches.
Kevin Hart is one of the shortest actors working in Hollywood today, but he has “embraced” his height and has no problem making fun of himself. “This is it. This is what I was given. This is my playing cards,” he told Oprah Winfrey in 2014. “If we were playing poker, I’ve got to make this hand work. This is it for me. And this is what I’m going to ride out. So how do you not embrace it? You get one life. One. You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.”
And there are always tricks to the trade — some men are rumored to wear lifts in their shoes and other times, their female co-stars will wear flat shoes so they don’t tower over their love interest. There are so many ways to make the actors look taller, but Hollywood doesn’t mind because they will always find a way to create an illusion of height, if need be. Find out who clocked in at less than 5 feet, 9 inches — some of the names on this list might shock you.
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Rami Malek
Rami Malek’s Height: 5′ 7″ or 170cm
Rami Malek may be a household name now, but viewers were still going “Who is this guy?” when he starred as computer hacker Elliot Alderson in the USA Network television series Mr. Robot (2015 – 2019). Since then, he’s continued to make a name for himself in movies like Bohemian Rhapsody, No Time to Die, Amsterdam and last year’s Best Picture winner Oppenheimer.
For Bohemian Rhapsody, Malek made history becoming the first actor of Egyptian heritage to win the Best Actor Award at the Oscars.
Marc Anthony
Marc Anthony’s Height: 5′ 6″ or 168cm
While many might only know Marc Anthony as Jennifer Lopez’s ex-husband, he’s also one of the most successful Latin artists of all time. Per Genius, Anthony has stacked quite a few prizes over the years including two Grammys and three Latin Grammys and more than 12 million albums worldwide.
Barry Keoghan
Barry Keoghan’s Height: 5′ 8″ or 173cm
Barry Keoghan is another actor who’s taking over Hollywood a film at a time. His breakthrough in the industry happened in 2017 when he starred in two hit movies: Dunkirk and The Killing of a Sacred Deer.
Then, in 2022, he starred in his most critically acclaimed role yet: as Dominic in The Banshees of Inisherin. For his performance, he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and received nominations for the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
In 2023, he stepped into the leading man shoes as he starred in Saltburn. For the role, he gained nominations for a Golden Globe and BAFTA Award for Best Actor.
Dave Franco
Dave Franco’s Height: 5′ 7″ or 170cm
Dave Franco started his career slowly, with small roles in Superbad, Scrubs and Charlie St. Cloud before making it big in 21 Jump Street (2012). Since then, he’s captivated audiences with his comedic timing in movies like Neighbors, Now You See Me, and The Disaster Artist alongside his brother, James Franco.
He’s also dipped his toes in directing in the movies The Rental and Somebody I Used to Know with his wife, Alison Brie.
Zac Efron
Zac Efron’s Height: 5′ 8″ or 173cm
Zac Efron was the teen heartthrob to top all heartthrobs. After all, it was hard not to get lost in his blue eyes in the High School Musical franchise.
Following the success of HSM, Efron kept his charms going in movies like Charlie St. Cloud, 17 Again, The Lucky One, Hairspray and That Awkward Moment. He’s also stepped out of the romantic and comedic roles over the years in movies like The Greatest Showman, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile and The Iron Claw.
Seth Green
Seth Green’s Height: 5′ 4″ or 163cm
Seth Green is another star on this list who started their career so young. At just 10 years old, Green starred in the comedy-drama film The Hotel New Hampshire. After that, he kept his child acting career going in Radio Days, Big Business and Can’t Buy Me Love.
Over the years, he’s also starred in a number of other titles including the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise, Austin Powers, Party Monster and Robot Chicken.
Ke Huy Quan
Ke Huy Quan’s Height: 5′ 4″ or 163cm
Ke Huy Quan got his start in the movie industry when he was only a teenager in the hit movies Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) and The Goonies (1985). In the 90s, however, Quan took a break from acting, got a degree from USC and became a a stunt coordinator and assistant director.
In 2022, he made the ultimate comeback in Everything Everywhere All at Once. For his role, he won an Oscar, a Critics Choice Award, a Golden Globe, and so on.
Elliot Page
Elliot Page’s Height: 5′ 1″ or 155cm
Canadian actor Elliot Page had been acting for almost a decade before his big break in the 2007 hit comedy Juno. For his role, they received plenty of acclaim, including an Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe and SAG Best Actress nominations.
Since then, Page has starred in a series of famous movies and TV shows including Inception, To Rome with Love and The Umbrella Academy. In 2023, he also released his tell-all memoir, Pageboy.
Kevin Hart
Kevin Hart’s Height: 5′ 2″ or 157cm
Since getting his breakthrough role in 2001’s Undeclared, Kevin Hart has quickly become one of the most famous and successful comedians in the industry. Among his movies over the years are Ride Along, Fatherhood, Night School and Think Like a Man. He’s also released a few comedy specials over the year too, including I’m a Grown Little Man (2009), Seriously Funny (2010), Laugh at My Pain (2011), Let Me Explain (2013), and What Now? (2016).
Andrew Scott
Andrew Scott’s Height: 5′ 8″ or 173cm
Golden Globe nominee Andrew Scott is an actor whose star power only continues to rise. Getting his start playing the villain Moriarty in Sherlock, the Irish actor has been making his mark in Hollywood one role at a time. In 2019, he won over hearts in Fleabag as the fan-loved “hot priest.” He also starred in many other titles like Spectre, Pride, All of Us Strangers and, more recently, Ripley.
Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise’s Height: 5′ 7″ or 170cm
Mr. Mission: Impossible himself is quite a legend in Hollywood. Tom Cruise got his career started back in the 1980s with some classic movies like Risky Business and Top Gun. He then only kept his career going with critically acclaimed roles in Born on the Fourth of July, Interview with the Vampire and Jerry Maguire.
Through the years, he’s also honed into action movies that are almost too extensive to list. Among them are Vanilla Sky, The Last Samurai, War of the Worlds, Knight and Day, Jack Reacher, Edge of Tomorrow, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, The Mummy, American Made, and Top Gun: Maverick.
Danny DeVito
Danny DeVito’s Height: 4′ 10″ or 147cm
What Danny DeVito doesn’t have in height, the actor makes up for in sheer talent and charisma. After making his debut as Danny DeVito as taxi dispatcher Louie De Palma in the television series Taxi, DeVito has become a Hollywood staple. Among his most known titles are Matilda, The War of the Roses, Batman Begins, L.A. Confidential and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
Don Cheadle
Don Cheadle’s Height: 5′ 8″ or 173cm
Starting back in the 80s, Don Cheadle has proved he’s a force to be reckoned with. His first titles include Devil in a Blue Dress, Rebound: The Legend of Earl ‘The Goat’ Manigault, Rosewood, Boogie Nights and Bulworth.
In 2005, he received his first Oscar nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performance in Hotel Rwanda.
Among his other titles since include Iron Man 2, House of Lies, The Ocean’s Trilogy and Black Monday.
Kit Harington
Kit Harington’s Height: 5′ 8″ or 173cm
Kit Harrington may have gotten his start in Game of Thrones, but he’s proved he’s much more than Jon Snow over the years. He’s also starred in a series of shows and movies like Pompeii, Eternals, Extrapolations and Modern Love.
Mark Wahlberg
Mark Wahlberg’s Height: 5′ 8″ or 173cm
Mark Wahlberg is another action hero in this list proving that you can kick some major butt without being the tallest guy in the room. Wahlberg got his start in the industry in the band Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch before pivoting to acting. Among his most notorious movies are The Departed, Planet of the Apes, Ted and Transformers: Age of Extinction.
Stanley Tucci
Stanley Tucci’s Height: 5′ 8″ or 173cm
Stanley Tucci might be the king of the internet with his cooking and mixology videos, but he’s quite an accomplished actor too. His most famous roles are in Julie & Julia, The Devil Wears Prada, The Lovely Bones, Burlesque, Easy A and The Hunger Games franchise.
Daniel Radcliffe
Daniel Radcliffe’s Height: 5′ 5″ or 165cm
As Harry Potter from the multi-movie Harry Potter franchise, it’s like the whole world saw Daniel Radcliffe grow up and become the actor he is today.
After retiring his Potter wand, Radcliffe dedicated himself to the stage, in stage productions of Equus, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying on Broadway, and, most recently, Merrily We Roll Along alongside Lindsay Mendez and Jonathan Groff.
Radcliffe has also starred in many movies including The Woman in Black, Now You See Me 2, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story and What If.
Michael J. Fox
Michael J. Fox’s Height: 5′ 4″ or 163cm
Every Gen-X teen girl was in love with Michael J. Fox in the 1980s, thanks to Back to the Future. Luckily, his career only continued with roles in Spin City, The Frighteners and The Michael J. Fox Show.
In 2023, Fox opened up to fans about his battle with Parkinson’s Disease in his AppleTV+ documentary Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie.
Al Pacino
Al Pacino’s Height: 5′ 7″ or 170cm
Al Pacino is one of the most legendary actors Hollywood has ever had. In Academy Award nominations alone, Pacino has nine nominations (for The Godfather, Serpico, The Godfather Part II, Dog Day Afternoon, …And Justice for All, Dick Tracy, Glengarry Glen Ross and The Irishman). In 1992, he won his first and only statue for Scent of a Woman.
Robert Downey Jr.
Robert Downey Jr.’s Height: 5′ 8″ or 173cm
Robert Downey Jr.’s dad Robert Downey Sr. was in the industry so RDJ got his start in the industry when he was just five years old in the 1970 film Pound. He then continued starring in movies throughout his teen and young adult years like Weird Science, Less than Zero and Chaplin.
After hitting rock bottom with his drug addiction, Downey Jr. went to rehab and stepped away from acting for a bit. That is, of course, only to come back stronger than ever as Iron Man in Marvel and win an Oscar in 2024 for his role in Oppenheimer.
James McAvoy
James McAvoy’s Height: 5′ 7″ or 170cm
James McAvoy is one of the most successful Scottish actors in Hollywood. Since making his debut as a teen in The Near Room in 1995, he’s been rising in the industry ever since. Among his most known movies are Filth, Atonement, Split, the X-Men franchise and The Last King of Scotland.
Elijah Wood
Elijah Wood’s Height: 5′ 6″ or 168cm
Known for his role as Grodo in The Lord of the Rings franchise, Elijah Wood has been a household name ever since. Among his other works over the years are Everything Is Illuminated, The Hobbit and Yellowjackets.
Jackie Chan
Jackie Chan’s Height: 5′ 8″ or 173cm
When it comes to action movies, Jackie Chan is a true living legend. He got his start alongside fellow martial arts actor Bruce Lee in Bruce Lee: Fist of Fury in 1972. Since then, Chan has starred in action movies left and right including Who Am I?, Rush Hour, Police Story and The Foreigner.
Joaquin Phoenix
Joaquin Phoenix’s Height: 5′ 8″ or 173cm
Joaquin Phoenix has gone from being a child actor to an Oscar-winning powerhouse. His first roles were in the 80s in series like Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Mr. Smith and Murder, She Wrote.
Over the years, Phoenix continued to make a name for himself in compelling movies like Walk the Line, Her, Irrational Man and Napoleon. In 2020, he won his first Oscar with the title role in Joker – one he’ll be reprising in the 2024 sequel Joker: Folie à Deux.
Jack Black
Jack Black’s Height: 5′ 6″ or 168cm
After making his movie debut in 1992’s Bob Roberts, comedian Jack Black has starred in some iconic roles. Among them, of course, are School of Rock, The Holiday, Nacho Libre, and Shallow Hall. Black’s also found success in his comedy rock band, Tenacious D, with friend and fellow musician Kyle Gass.
Mark Ruffalo
Mark Ruffalo’s Height: 5′ 8″ or 173cm
While Mark Ruffalo might most be known as Hulk in the Marvel Universe, a quick look at his filmography proves he’s got some impressive range. He got his start in the industry in the 80s in movies like Tracy Wells in Mirror Mirror 2: Raven Dance and Due South, and has only continued to make a name for himself ever since. Among his most notable works are Foxcatcher, Spotlight, The Kids Are Alright, and the fan-loved 13 Going on 30. In 2024, he received his fourth Academy Award nomination for his latest movie, Poor Things.
Tom Holland
Tom Holland’s Height: 5′ 8″ or 173cm
Fellow Marvel star Tom Holland also has range far beyond his actions movies (three Spider-Man movies in counting!). After making his film debut in 2012’s The Impossible, Holland has been hard at work ever since, starring in projects like The Devil All the Time, Uncharted, Cherry and The Crowded Room. In 2024, Holland also came back to his stage roots by starring as Romeo in West End’s production of Romeo & Juliet.
Abel Tesfaye (The Weeknd)
The Weeknd’s Height: 5′ 8″ or 173cm
After getting his start posting anonymously to YouTube, Abel Tesfaye (stage name The Weeknd) has become one the biggest pop stars of his generation, with songs like “Starboy,” “The Hills” and “Can’t Feel My Face” completely taking over the world after their release. To date, he’s released five studio albums: Kiss Land, Beauty Behind the Madness, Starboy, After Hours and Dawn FM.
Over the years, Tesfaye’s ventured into acting too. In 2023, he was one of the leads in Sam Levinson’s controversial new series, The Idol.
Tobey Maguire
Tobey Maguire’s Height: 5′ 8″ or 173cm
Tobey Maguire got his start in the industry when he was just a teenager, starring in movies like The Wizard, The Boy’s Life and Great Scott! After being cast as the first-ever Spider-Man in 2002, his fame skyrocketed more than ever before. He then put the spider suit back on two times for Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 3.
Since then, Maguire has alternated between projects behind and in front of the camera. Among those are The Great Gatsby (alongside his BFF Leonardo DiCaprio), Brother, Labor Day and Babylon.
