How tall is Lena Dunham?

Lena Dunham is commonly listed at 5 ft 3 in (160 cm).

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Lena Dunham’s 5 ft 3 in (160 cm) is about average for a US woman: about 44 in 100 US women are shorter.

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Lena Dunham beside others

Lena Dunham is the shortest of the 27 film directors we have heights for: Martin Scorsese (5 ft 3 in) is next, at almost exactly the same height.

Also listed at 5 ft 3 in: Martin Scorsese.

Woody Allen: 5 ft 4 in (163 cm), 1 in (3 cm) taller than Lena Dunham.
Spike Lee: 5 ft 5 in (165.1 cm), 2 in (5.1 cm) taller than Lena Dunham.

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5 ft 3 in (160 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: Elena Ternovaja, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.

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Lena Dunham, 5 ft 3 in (160 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)