How Tall
A list of celebrity heights
Introduction
In 1998 I put together a small list of celebrity heights that were gathered from a few sources. The idea was to continually add new entries and have a comprehensive list of heights. Unfortunately I quickly gave up on the plan.
Here is the list as I originally wrote it several years ago, but with updates to the IMDb information and links.
| Serena Altschul | 5'7" | TV Guide; Issue #2330; p50 |
| Jennifer Aniston | 5'5" | TV Guide; Issue #2330; p33 |
| Fiona Apple | 5'2" | Yahoo! Web Celeb |
| David Boreanaz | 6'1" | TV Guide; Issue #2330; p34 |
| Benjamin Bratt | 6'2" | TV Guide; Issue #2330; p27 |
| James Brolin | 6'4" | TV Guide; Issue #2330; p52 |
| Yancy Butler | 5'7" | TV Guide; Issue #2330; p36 |
| Mariah Carey | 5'8" | VH1 Pop Up Video |
| Lisa Nicole Carson | 5'6" | TV Guide; Issue #2330; p49 |
| Laetitia Casta | 5'7" | Internet Movie Database |
| Chevy Chase | 6'4" | VH1 Pop Up Video |
| John Cleese | 6'5" | TV Guide; Issue #2309; p62 |
| David Duchovny | 6'0½" | Internet Movie Database |
| Jenna Elfman | 5'10" | TV Guide; Issue #2330; p26 |
| Milla Jovovich | 5'8" | Internet Movie Database |
| Craig Kilborn | 6'4" | TV Guide; Issue #2308; p26 |
| Lucy Lawless | 5'10" | TV Guide; Issue #2330; p45 |
| Jeremy London | 5'11" | TV Guide; Issue #2330; p46 |
| Costas Mandylor | 6'0" | TV Guide; Issue #2330; p28 |
| Dylan McDermott | 6'0" | TV Guide; Issue #2330; p48 |
| Alyssa Milano | 5'2" | TV Guide; Issue #2330; p29 |
| Jada Pinkett | 5'0" | Parade Magazine; 7/6/97; p2 |
| Keanu Reeves | 6'1" | Internet Movie Database |
| Jeri Ryan | 5'8" | TV Guide; Issue #2330; p42 |
| Arnold Schwarzenegger | 6'2" | Trivia Pursuit: Genus II Edition |
| Klea Scott | 5'8" | TV Guide; Issue #2330; p37 |
| Jon Seda | 5'9" | TV Guide; Issue #2330; p40 |
| Paul Simon | 5'3" | Internet Movie Database |
| Will Smith | 6'2" | Parade Magazine; 7/6/97; p2 |
| Jon Tenney | 6'1" | TV Guide; Issue #2330; p36 |
| Charlize Theron | 5'9½" | Internet Movie Database |
| Andrea Thompson | 5'8" | TV Guide; Issue #2330; p38 |
| Keenen Ivory Wayans | 6'3" | TV Guide; Issue #2330; p32 |
| Titus Welliver | 6'0" | TV Guide; Issue #2330; p37 |
Sources - Can you trust them?
People lie about their heights, so you have to take any height information with a grain of salt.
IMDb - The information in the IMDb largely consists of user-submitted data from both amateurs and industry professionals. This means that height information can come from any number of sources. Stats are not available for every person, but if it is, you can find it in the person's respective biography page.
Print / media publications - I'd like to think that print publications such as TV Guide have more reliable height facts than IMDb, but I don't know where they get their information. My guess is journalists get their information from what a celebrity or publicist says. And in some cases based on what public records say.
Where to find other celebrity heights
Curious as to the current state of celebrity height information, I searched around for a good repository.
- celebheights.com started in 2004, and already has a decent amount of data. The author of the site uses a number of techniques to determine celebrity heights, and welcomes user comments with more information.
- IMDb is still a great resource for comprehensive, if not completely accurate, stature stats.
Google technique
To find a person's height using Google, enter in how tall is, then the person's name. It works for most famous names. This trick is one example of Google's Q&A feature.
If Google is able to find an answer for your query, the top result will summarize the height and link to the source. I've noticed a variety of sources including IMDb and Wikipedia.
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