Shortest living actress in a leading adult role

Shortest living actress in a leading adult role
Who
Linda Hunt
What
First
Where
United States
When
1982
Apart from dwarfs and midgets, Linda Hunt (USA, b.2 April 1945), who made her debut in Popeye (USA 1980), stands at 1.43 m (4 ft 9 in) tall. She won an Academy Award in 1984 for her role as Billy Kwan, a male Eurasian cameraman in Indonesia in The Year of Living Dangerously  (Australia 1982)  - to become the only actress to win an Oscar for playing someone of the opposite sex!