How tall was Janet Leigh?

Janet Leigh is commonly listed at 5 ft 5.5 in (166 cm).

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Janet Leigh’s 5 ft 5.5 in (166 cm) is a little above average for a US woman: about 74 in 100 US women are shorter.

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Janet Leigh beside others

Janet Leigh is one of the shorter actors we have heights for: Sun Mingming (7 ft 9 in) stands 2 ft 3.5 in (70 cm) taller and Verne Troyer (2 ft 8 in) is 2 ft 9.5 in (84.7 cm) shorter. All 1,404 ranked, tallest first.

Also listed at 5 ft 5.5 in: Emmanuelle Riva, Missy Peregrym and Freida Pinto.

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5 ft 5.5 in (166 cm)

A commonly listed height: it appears across many profiles, but none says when or how it was measured, so shoes and rounding may be part of the number.

Photo: Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.

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Janet Leigh, 5 ft 5.5 in (166 cm), drawn to scale beside the average US man, 5 ft 9 in (175 cm), and the average US woman, 5 ft 3.5 in (161 cm)