5 ft 10 in (177.8 cm)
A commonly listed height, as Wikipedia gives it, with no date or method, so shoes and rounding may be part of the number.
Source: Wikipedia
Paula Prentiss is commonly listed at 5 ft 10 in (177.8 cm).
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Paula Prentiss’s 5 ft 10 in (177.8 cm) is very tall for a US woman: more than 95 in 100 US women are shorter.
Paula Prentiss is in the middle of the 1,404 actors we have heights for: Sun Mingming (7 ft 9 in) stands 1 ft 11 in (58.2 cm) taller and Verne Troyer (2 ft 8 in) is 3 ft 2 in (96.5 cm) shorter. All 1,404 ranked, tallest first.
Also listed at 5 ft 10 in: Johnny Depp, Mark Wahlberg and Matt Damon.
A commonly listed height, as Wikipedia gives it, with no date or method, so shoes and rounding may be part of the number.
Source: Wikipedia
Photo: Photographer-Friedman-Abeles, New York, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.
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| APA | Heightvs. (2026, November 3). Paula Prentiss height: 5 ft 10 in (178 cm), drawn beside you. https://heightvs.com/how-tall/paula-prentiss |
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