How tall is Michael Emerson?

Michael Emerson is commonly listed at 5 ft 8 in (173 cm).

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Michael Emerson’s 5 ft 8 in (173 cm) is a little below average for a US man: about 39 in 100 US men are shorter.

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Michael Emerson beside others

Michael Emerson is in the middle of the 1,404 actors we have heights for: Sun Mingming (7 ft 9 in) stands 2 ft 1 in (63 cm) taller and Verne Troyer (2 ft 8 in) is 3 ft 0 in (91.7 cm) shorter. All 1,404 ranked, tallest first.

Also listed at 5 ft 8 in: Tom Holland, Alexandra Daddario and Anne Hathaway.

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5 ft 8 in (173 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: Thibault from Paris, France, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.

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Michael Emerson, 5 ft 8 in (173 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)