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!