Who are the shortest actresses in Hollywood? And it's not just the Kardashians (hint: one lady is 4ft11in). Here is a look at the 5ft3in and under crowd

Plenty of Hollywood stars are rather short — nether 5ft5in, that is — but it's difficult to show successful beforehand of nan camera because they are styled to look statuesque.

Platform heels, finely tailored clothing and slender frames thief deceive nan oculus into reasoning they person tallness erstwhile they deed nan spotlight astatine events.

On surface they whitethorn look larger than life arsenic well, arsenic nan camera shoots them successful definite ways. 

It doesn't wounded that galore of their antheral costars are debased connected tallness excessively — immoderate actors for illustration Tom Cruise are good nether 6ft tall.

And it is not conscionable nan Kardashians — Kim and Kourtney Kardashian are some astir 5ft1in gangly — as many different luminaries for illustration Reese Witherspoon, Eva Longoria and Lady Gaga all measurement astatine conscionable 5ft1in.

One big-name character is moreover a astonishing 4ft11in.

Here is simply a look astatine nan beautiful but petite ladies ruling nan reddish carpets. 

JADA PINKETT SMITH

HEIGHT: 4ft11in

Jada Pinkett is simply a mighty star, but she is connected nan shorter broadside erstwhile compared to leggy ladies for illustration Brooke Shields (6ft tall) and Uma Thurman (5ft11in tall).

Pinkett is nether 5 feet tall. 

In an Instagram station from 2021 she asked, 'Why americium I ever nan shortest 1 successful immoderate pic???' erstwhile posing pinch hubby Will Smith and boy Jaden Smith.

There is simply a stark contrast.

Will is 6ft2in while her boy Jaden is 6ft tall. Pinkett is simply a tiny 4ft11in.

On reddish carpets she makes judge to deterioration level heels for an other 8 inches of height, and it seems to activity well. 

Jada ever looks for illustration a show stopper erstwhile stepping out. 

REESE WITHERSPOON

HEIGHT: 5ft1in

She is simply a immense unit successful Hollywood acknowledgment to movies for illustration Legally Blonde, Wild and Four Christmases.

This blonde prima has besides appeared connected bid for illustration Friends and Big Little Lies.

And she has produced respective apical streamer bid for illustration The Morning Show pinch Jennifer Aniston. 

But Reese Witherspoon is smaller than 1 would expect.

Selena Gomez towered complete her astatine nan caller SAG awards, if that is immoderate indication.

Witherspoon has battled her measurement to nan A-list conscionable good contempt producers calling her retired for being connected nan smaller side. 

'When I first came present [to LA], each I heard was, "No, not correct - not gangly enough, not beautiful enough, not smart enough,"' she erstwhile told DailyMail.com.

'But I didn’t really attraction astir their opinions. I’m stubborn.'

MADONNA

HEIGHT: 5ft3in

Good things travel successful mini packages.

That tin beryllium said for Madonna who is 5ft3in but is considered 1 of nan biggest stars successful nan world for nan past 40 years acknowledgment to hits specified arsenic Borderline, Like A Virgin, Music and Frozen.

This 65-year-old Rebel Heart popular icon does not look short erstwhile she is connected shape astir apt because she is successful awesome style and wears level heels.

Also her first hubby Sean Penn is 5ft8in truthful she didn't look diminutive adjacent to him. 

But erstwhile she poses pinch others, for illustration her six kids, it is noticeable really petite this Material Girl is.

KIM KARDASHIAN

HEIGHT: 5ft2in

Kim Kardashian has made a surviving disconnected modeling manner for companies for illustration Balenciaga and Calvin Klein.

But she is overmuch shorter that her supermodel half-sister Kendall Jenner.

Kim does not look bothered that she is connected nan shorter broadside and useful pinch it very successfully.

In 2016 she said, 'I've learned that location are a fewer really bully styling tricks for short girls for illustration me. They're elemental and make each nan difference.

'Not everyone is Kendall, LOL!' she laughed. Jenner - who models for Vogue and Valentino - is an awesome 5ft11in.

Kardashian listed her tricks.

One was to deterioration precocious heels each nan time.

'It's not a concealed that I deterioration heels 99 percent of nan time. If I do deterioration flats, it's a momentous occasion, lol. I unrecorded successful heels because they're nan champion measurement to look taller,' noted nan Keeping Up With The Kardashians veteran. 

KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN

HEIGHT: 5ft1in

She is nan shortest personnel of nan Kardashian/Jenner family.

Kourtney Kardashian is 1 inch shorter than younger sister Kim Kardashian.

And she is astir a ft shorter convey Khloe Kardashian and Kendall Jenner.

She has said successful nan past that she is sometimes bothered by her tallness and was thrilled erstwhile Google changed her listing from 5ft to 5ft1in.

'That 1 inch does really matter to me,' she said connected her reality TV show Keeping Up With The Kardashians. 

Her hubby Travis Barker stands astatine 5ft9in. 

LADY GAGA

HEIGHT: 5ft1in

Lady Gaga has been a maestro astatine dressing successful sexy outfits that make nan attraction her awesome curves and not her height.

When astatine nan Oscars aliases a movie premiere, Gaga ever brings melodramatic glamour.

So it's a daze to find retired she is only 5ft1in.

When she began her career, nan Poker Face hitmaker often wore level boots that looked to beryllium complete 10 inches.

These days she is comfortable pinch modular pumps.

EVA LONGORIA

HEIGHT: 5ft1in

She came to fame arsenic nan small Latin powerhouse Isabella Braña connected Desperate Housewives.

And erstwhile nan dark-haired dame was pinch hoops prima Tony Parker - who is 6ft2in - it was illustrated that she is connected nan shorter side.

Over nan years her fame has grown pinch movies arsenic good arsenic producing TV shows for illustration Maids.

And complete clip nan accent has not been connected her height, but alternatively really awesome she continues to look arsenic she ages and leans into motherhood arsenic she heads toward her 50s.

Her profession is - excuse nan pun- hotter than ever aft nan deed movie Flamin' Hot, which she directed.

Next she will beryllium connected nan Emmy beloved show Only Murders In The Building pinch Selena Gomez, Martin Short and Steve Martin. 

PATRICIA ARQUETTE

HEIGHT: 5ft1in

Patricia Arquette has been making waves successful Hollywood since nan 1980s.

The sister of Rosanna Arquette and David Arquette has made deed movies for illustration True Romance and has been connected nan long-running TV bid Medium.

No 1 has seemed to prime up connected that she is connected nan shorter side.

The prima looks cleanable connected reddish carpets arsenic she models couture that she pairs pinch precocious heels.

She has not talked overmuch astir her height, but she has discussed ageing successful Hollywood.

In 2022 she said: 'This is my ain look and if tomorrow I determine to person a facelift, past I'm going to do it. Everyone gets to do what they want pinch their ain look … but I understand why group consciousness that pressure.'

She has not fixed successful to that 'pressure.' 

'[The look is] this, benignant of, eternal ingénue, and you conscionable don't spot it overmuch successful nan quality race. It's benignant of a Hollywood circumstantial look,' nan character said. 'At nan extremity of nan day, there's Hollywood and your narration pinch Hollywood arsenic an actor, and past there's besides your ain narration pinch yourself and nan world astir you. What adventures do you want to person successful this life? I consciousness very happy pinch wherever I americium correct now.'

NATALIE PORTMAN

HEIGHT: 5ft3in

Natalie Portman is connected nan A list.

And she has ever looked nan portion while wearing couture and precocious heels connected reddish carpets, and besides dazzling connected mag covers arsenic she flaunts her lithe frame.

Some mind find it astonishing she is really 5ft3in.

Portman whitethorn look taller because her clothing is ever tailored; her fitted jeans are ne'er excessively long. And blazer look crisp connected her, she ne'er swims successful them.

The beauty had go a successful exemplary moreover though she is astir six inches shorter than nan mean catwalk queen.

Portman has been moving pinch Christian Dior since 2011. 

SCARLETT JOHANSSON

HEIGHT: 5ft3in

She has ever looked gangly successful her films for illustration Black Widow.

So it's a daze that Scarlett Johansson is really rather petite astatine 5ft3in.

The prima talked to Cosmopolitan astir really she doesn't for illustration being asked astir her height.

Scarlett said, '"Wow, you're really short." I get that a lot. [They say], "You're a batch shorter than I thought you were." I'm like, "Wow, really is that ever OK to opportunity to someone?" It's truthful bizarre. Yes. It's, "You're really short."'

Scarlett has ever had a patient mindset erstwhile it comes to her quality and has spoken often connected really she opts for wellness complete thing else.

'I effort to enactment fresh and eat healthily, but I’m not anxious to starve myself and go unnaturally thin. I don’t find that look charismatic connected women and I don’t want to go portion of that trend,' she said.  

'It’s unhealthy and it puts excessively overmuch unit connected women successful wide who are being fed this image of nan ideal, which it is not.  

'I deliberation America has go obsessed pinch dieting… I besides deliberation that being ultra-thin is not sexy astatine all. Women shouldn’t beryllium forced to conform to unrealistic and unhealthy assemblage images that nan media promote.

'I don’t request to beryllium skinny to beryllium sexy.'