# Favorite 'little people' actors **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 16, 2020, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-people-actors/848022 "2020-02-16T14:50:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2020, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-people-actors/848022/21 "2020-02-16T21:03:40Z")
I quite like Meredith Eaton (_Family Law_, **Boston Legal** ). Linda Hunt is not \*that \*short (145 cm), but she does have dwarfism. And she’s a great actress. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2020, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-people-actors/848022/22 "2020-02-16T21:41:41Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > I’ve heard that about him, but GoT (obligatory GoT spoiler tag) had a lot more of it than I expected from hearing about his avoidance of short-centric roles. It was, however, the _characters_ who were often demeaning his stature rather than the writing poking fun at it per se. It was, however, indeed, not a requirement for him to be short and with slightly different writing it could have accomodated an actor of any height.More serious spoilerThey could have made him “disfigured” in another way (the closest thing I can think of is a malformed or underdeveloped limb) and had characters always pointing that out and it would have explained why people disrespected him forcing him to often be an eminence gris rather than the ruler. Other than that the show would not have had to change anything (I haven’t read the books.) [spoiler]The thing is … the character in the GoT book series is very much a dwarf as well as being ugly and later much, much more scarred up than Dinklage is in the TV series. In that case, it was a dwarf character being played by someone of abnormally short stature in real life. Making that character someone of normal stature would have been a HUGE deviation from the book series. So… yes, Dinklage may have been hired for the role at least in part because he was a little person, but they _also_ wanted someone who could act the part of a major character, and that possibly got him hired over a lot of other people who had the (lack of) height to fit the character.[/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2020, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-people-actors/848022/23 "2020-02-16T23:29:59Z")
I’ve loved [Meredith Eaton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meredith_Eaton) ever since I saw her in her very first role on NYPD Blue. I’ve always thought that she could carry a series. The only reason I didn’t give up on the new MacGyver series was because she was added to the cast. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-people-actors/848022/24 "2020-02-17T00:06:12Z")
I was very smitten with Warwick Davis from his work in Willow, his face reminded me very strongly of someone I was in a long-distance romance with. As for distinguished work, I’ll go with Michael Dunn, who was very good in many things including Ship of Fools. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-people-actors/848022/25 "2020-02-17T02:30:51Z")
Another vote for Meredith Eaton. She’s adorable. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-little-people-actors/848022.md?page=1)