5 ft 11 in (180.3 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.
Karen Gillan is commonly listed at 5 ft 11 in (180.3 cm).
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Karen Gillan’s 5 ft 11 in (180.3 cm) is very tall for a US woman: more than 95 in 100 US women are shorter.
Karen Gillan is one of the taller actors we have heights for: Sun Mingming (7 ft 9 in) stands 1 ft 10 in (55.7 cm) taller and Verne Troyer (2 ft 8 in) is 3 ft 3 in (99.1 cm) shorter. All 1,404 ranked, tallest first.
Also listed at 5 ft 11 in: Hannah Waddingham, Scott Adkins and Brad Pitt.
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: Pedro Heshike for Galaxy Con, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.
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