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Zac Efron, Barry Keoghan & More Famous Men Who Are Shorter Than You’d Expect

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These short celebrity men might look a lot taller on the big screen but if you’ve ever encountered a Hollywood actor in person, you might be surprised by their height.

The average height of a man in the United States is about 5 feet, 9 inches, according to Health, and some of the most famous celebrities in the entertainment industry are on the shorter side of this average!

Many of the Marvel superheroes are well under six feet tall, like Tom Holland, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr. and Don Cheadle. Fellow Spider-Man Tobey Maguire, for example, comes in at 5 feet, 8 inches.

Kevin Hart is one of the shortest actors working in Hollywood today, but he has “embraced” his height and has no problem making fun of himself. “This is it. This is what I was given. This is my playing cards,” he told Oprah Winfrey in 2014. “If we were playing poker, I’ve got to make this hand work. This is it for me. And this is what I’m going to ride out. So how do you not embrace it? You get one life. One. You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.”

And there are always tricks to the trade — some men are rumored to wear lifts in their shoes and other times, their female co-stars will wear flat shoes so they don’t tower over their love interest. There are so many ways to make the actors look taller, but Hollywood doesn’t mind because they will always find a way to create an illusion of height, if need be. Find out who clocked in at less than 5 feet, 9 inches — some of the names on this list might shock you.

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