Are there actresses 5'1'' or shorter? If so, who and how come they seem taller?

Answer 1

Camera angle, specific props, even shorter people working with them.

Here are some personality heights:

NAME HEIGHT
Michael J. Anderson (Carnivàle) 3' 7"
Kenny Baker (R2-D2) 3' 8"
Gary Coleman 4' 8"
Linda Hunt 4' 9"
Danny Devito 5' 0"
Rhea Perlman 5' 1"

Some old "silent screen" actresses:
4' 9''
Daphne Pollard
Lydia Yeamans Titus

4' 10''
Marguerite Clark
Miriam Cooper
Ann Cornwall
Florence Turner

4' 11''
Barbara Kent
Shirley Mason
May McAvoy

4' 11 ½ ''
Viola Dana

5'
Ann Brody
Betty Bronson
Ann Christy
Helen Foster
Janet Gaynor
Louise Huff
Frances Lee
Gladys Leslie
Bessie Love
Molly Malone
Mabel Normand
Ann Pennington
Mary Pickford
Sally Rand
Vera Reynolds
Billie Rhodes

5' ½ ''
Constance Binney
Marguerite De La Motte

5' 1''
Renee Adoree
Tsuru Aoki
Lucy Beaumont
Edith Chapman
Doris Dawson
Virginia Browne Faire
Margarita Fisher
Greta Granstedt
Francine Larrimore
Louise Lorraine
Edna Marion
Marion Nixon
Allene Roberts
Norma Shearer
Fannie Ward

http://www.cinemarquee.com/cine/height.htm

Answer 2

Zelda Rubenstein (she's an adorable little old lady who usually gets creepy roles) is 4'something and they never use forced perspective cinematography with her.

As a side note, I had to giggle since the questioner asked about women and there are several men listed. Actresses are women but actors can be either.

Answer 3

I should think this corresponds to the growing stature of woman in the modern Indiansociety.She has now no bars that would stump her growth. She has now walked in fields where even males were fill recently afraid to tread. Look at Indira Nooyi,Mayawat. I think the trend in the films started from the heroine of Satyam,Shivam,Sundaram(The name keeps slipping me)Tall,slim heroines unlike their predecessors short, and plump.Well,perhaps that was the ideal of female beauty then. I recall a time when it was difficult for tall girls to get a suitable boy.Have seen some tall girls walking with a bent back to fall in the line of midgets

Answer 4

Jada Pinkett Smith is 4'11"
Jenna Von Oy (Blossom) must be under 5 feet tall, because I met her in person and I was taller than her, and I'm only 5 feet tall.

Answer 5

Most of them look taller because they act with Tom Cruise.

Answer 6

it's called high heels and camera angle... sometimes they put like a little step so they can be taller...

Answer 7

Kristin Chenoweth is 4'11"

Answer 8

camera angle which make them seem talker