# TV shows where all the actresses are taller than the actors **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [November 20, 2025, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-where-all-the-actresses-are-taller-than-the-actors/1025003 "2025-11-20T06:10:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2025, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-where-all-the-actresses-are-taller-than-the-actors/1025003/21 "2025-11-23T02:17:03Z")
> [@Toxgoddess](#): > > Anything 6’3” Gwendolyn Christie is in will have her towering over most of her male co-stars. > > Game of Thrones not only had Ms. Christie, but Sophie Turner, 5’9”, was notably taller than Aiden Gillen in their scenes together. > > ETA: just realized the OP specified all the actresses in the cast being taller than all the men. Emily Litella voice..”Never mind..” Yeah, but it’s a big cast and for ever Peter Dinklage (4’5”) or Kit Harrington.(5’8”) you also have a Jason Momoa (6’4”) or Rory McCanne (6’6”) against a Masie Williams (5’1”) and Emilia Clarke (5’2”) ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2025, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-where-all-the-actresses-are-taller-than-the-actors/1025003/22 "2025-11-23T02:18:05Z")
If movies count then any movie with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2025, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-where-all-the-actresses-are-taller-than-the-actors/1025003/23 "2025-11-23T05:59:16Z")
The problem with movies is that it’s going to be much harder to come up with an acceptable definition of which actors to consider. Movies tend to have dozens of credited actors; if you consider the whole cast then it will be virtually impossible to find any films where all the women are taller than the men. On the other hand, if you consider only the top-billed ones (such as, say, the ones writ large on the movie poster), then it becomes trivially easy to find examples. TV shows are a good compromise because there is almost always a very clear delineation in the credits between starring and recurring/guest roles, and because even shows regarded as having large ensemble casts don’t usually have more performers than you can count on your fingers. There are plenty of well-known shows with only two or three starring roles. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2025, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-where-all-the-actresses-are-taller-than-the-actors/1025003/24 "2025-11-23T13:22:46Z")
Only three male characters regularly appear on the new iteration of _Matlock_, and they’re all shorter than the main female characters. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2025, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-where-all-the-actresses-are-taller-than-the-actors/1025003/25 "2025-11-23T15:49:50Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > Only three male characters regularly appear on the new iteration of _Matlock_, and they’re all shorter than the main female characters. Kathy Bates is 5’3”. At 77 years old I wouldn’t be surprised if she shrunk a little but still has her height listed the same. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2025, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-where-all-the-actresses-are-taller-than-the-actors/1025003/26 "2025-11-24T00:55:07Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > I submit The West Wing. Allison Janney is the tallest member of the cast by listed height (6’0”). Janel Moloney is listed at only 5’9” - shorter than Richard Schiff (5’10”), Bradley Whitford (5’11”) and Rob Lowe (5’10”) - but in most candid shots I’ve seen, she appears taller than all of them. I wouldn’t list Stockard Channing as a regular cast member. NiCole Robinson wasn’t in the opening credits, but she played Margaret (Leo’s secretary) in 109 episodes. She’s 5’10". ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2025, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-where-all-the-actresses-are-taller-than-the-actors/1025003/27 "2025-11-24T01:28:36Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Kathy Bates is 5’3”. At 77 years old I wouldn’t be surprised if she shrunk a little but still has her height listed the same. Yeah, I’m confused about this claim of @HeyHomie’s. Surely Bates, who plays the series’s main character, isn’t taller than Jason Ritter and David Del Rio. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2025, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-where-all-the-actresses-are-taller-than-the-actors/1025003/28 "2025-11-24T02:32:32Z")
Yeah that was my bad. I don’t know what I was thinking. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2025, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-where-all-the-actresses-are-taller-than-the-actors/1025003/29 "2025-11-24T02:57:08Z")
> [@psychonaut](#): > > I’m thinking that the best way of finding an answer to this question is to look for shows that have a famously tall actress starring in a relatively small (in terms of number of actors) cast. For example, did Terry Farrell or Kristen Johnston (both about 6′ 0″) star in any sparsely populated shows? (_3rd Rock from the Sun_ doesn’t work because, even though Johnston towers over French Stewart and Wayne Knight, she’s dwarfed by John Lithgow, and in any case the main cast also includes the diminutive Jane Curtin.) I was going to submit _Leanne_, a Netflix sitcom that features Kristen Johnston, but it also featured Ryan Styles, who stands 6’6”. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2025, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-where-all-the-actresses-are-taller-than-the-actors/1025003/30 "2025-12-02T00:35:29Z")
I often think of the only 30 seconds I ever caught of “Boy Meets World”… because it was so genuine, that I wonder if it was ad-libbed. A boy introduces his very tall girlfriend to his dad, and Dad just blurts out “She could eat a pie off your head…” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-where-all-the-actresses-are-taller-than-the-actors/1025003.md?page=1)