50 Female Celebrities Who Are Around 5’1″

Many superstars are not as tall as they seem on the red carpet and multiple people will be surprised to know about some of the hottest famous short female celebrities who have overcome it and stood out for their vast talent. Although the world of Hollywood is tough with numerous beauty standards, these wonderful celebrities have not let their height stop them from competing with many tall megastars.

1. Lady Gaga

Name	Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta
Date of birth	March 28, 1986
Place of birth	New York City, U.S.
Occupation	Singer, songwriter, actress
Height	5 feet 1 inch

In 2005, Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta recorded 2 songs with hip-hop artist Melle Mel for an audio book Cricket Casey’s children’s novel The Portal in the Park. Gaga also formed a band called the SGBand with her friends from NYU. They played around New York and became a fixture of the downtown Lower East Side club scene. After the Songwriters Hall of Fame New Songwriters Showcase at the Cutting Room in June 2006, talent scout Wendy Starland recommended her to music producer Rob Fusari.

2. Ariana Grande

Name	Ariana Grande-Butera
Date of birth	June 26, 1993
Place of birth	Boca Raton, Florida, U.S.
Occupation	Singer, songwriter, actress
Height	5 feet 3 inch

Ariana Grande-Butera was born in Boca Raton, Florida, on June 26, 1993. She is the daughter of Edward Butera, a graphic design firm owner in Boca Raton, and Joan Grande, the CEO of Hose-McCann Communications, a manufacturer of safety equipment and communications owned by the Grande family since 1964,. She is of Italian descent and has described herself as an American Italian with Sicilian and Abruzzese roots.

3. Shakira

Name	Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll
Date of birth	February 2, 1977
Place of birth	Barranquilla, Colombia
Occupation	Singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, actress, philanthropist
Height	5 feet 2 inch

Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll was born in Barranquilla, Colombia, on February 2, 1977. She is the only child of Nidia Ripoll Torrado and William Mebarak Chadid. She is of Colombian and Lebanese descent. Her father William was born in New York City to a Lebanon family. When he was 5 years old, his family relocated to Colombia. Her Colombian mother’s side has two Spanish surnames, Torrado and Ripoll, the latter of which is Catalan and originates from 4 brothers immigrating from Catalonia to Colombia in the 19th century.

4. Vanessa Hudgens

Name	Vanessa Anne Hudgens
Date of birth	December 14, 1988
Place of birth	Salinas, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, singer
Height	5 feet 1 inch

In January 2006, Vanessa Anne Hudgens played Gabriella Montez, one of the lead roles in the Disney Channel Original Movie High School Musical. The film caught Hudgens portraying the new girl at high school who falls in love with the captain of the basketball team. The two later versions reveal the passion for singing, and audition for the school play together. She starred alongside Ashley Tisdale and Zac Efron, the latter of which she was partnered up with during the auditioning process due to their “chemistry”.

5. Anna Kendrick

Name	Anna Cooke Kendrick
Date of birth	August 9, 1985
Place of birth	Portland, Maine, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, singer
Height	5 feet 2 inch

Anna Cooke Kendrick was born on August 9, 1985. She began her career when she was young, auditioning for theater productions in New York City. When she was 12 years old, she had a supporting role in the Broadway musical High Society in 1998. Her performance got her a Theater World Award and nominations for Featured Actress in a Musical at the Drama Desk Awards and Tony Awards. 

6. Hilary Duff

Name	Hilary Erhard Duff
Date of birth	September 28, 1987
Place of birth	Houston, Texas, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, singer, author
Height	5 feet 2 inch

Hilary Erhard Duff was born in Houston, Texas, on September 28, 1987. Her parents are Susan Colleen Duff (née Cobb), a music producer and homemaker turned film, and Robert Erhard Duff, a partner in a series of convenience stores. Duff has one older sister named Haylie. She was raised between Houston and San Antonio, the locations of her father’s convenience stores.

7. Avril Lavigne

Name	Avril Ramona Lavigne
Date of birth	September 27, 1984
Place of birth	Belleville, Ontario, Canada
Occupation	Singer, songwriter, actress
Height	5 feet 1 inch

Joshua Sarubin was given the responsibility of overseeing Avril Ramona Lavigne‘s development and the process of her debut album. They spent many months in New York working with different co-writers, trying to create an individual sound for her. Sarubin told HitQuarters that they initially struggled; although early collaborations with songwriter-producers including Curt Frasca, Peter Zizzo and Sabelle Breer resulted in some good songs, they did not suit her or her voice.

8. Rachel Bilson

Name	Rachel Sarah Bilson
Date of birth	August 25, 1981
Place of birth	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Height	5 feet 2 inch

Rachel Bilson has been recognized by multiple media sources as being a “fashion junkie”. Bilson has described herself as having a “vintage” sense of style and has noted Diane Keaton and Kate Moss as inspirations.

In late 2007, she approached DKNY Jeans with a view to design a clothing line with the fashion brand. Together Edie Rose was created. The collection was launched in September 2008.

9. Kristen Bell

Name	Kristen Anne Bell
Date of birth	July 18, 1980
Place of birth	Huntington Woods, Michigan, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, singer
Height	5 feet 1 inch

In 1992, Kristen Anne Bell went to her first audition and won a dual role as a tree and a banana in a suburban Detroit theater’s production of Andy and Raggedy Ann. Bell’s mother had established her with an agent when she was 12, which allowed her to participate in newspaper advertisements for many Detroit retailers and TV commercials. She also started private acting lessons.

10. Reese Witherspoon

Name	Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon
Date of birth	March 22, 1976
Place of birth	New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, producer
Height	5 feet 1 inch

Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon joined an open casting call for The Man in the Moon in 1991, intending to audition for a bit part; but instead was cast for the lead role of Dani Trant, a fourteen-year-old country girl who falls for the first time with her seventeen-year-old neighbor. According to The Guardian, Witherspoon’s performance made an early impression. Roger Ebert, a film critic commented, “Her first kiss is one of the most perfect little scenes I’ve ever seen in a movie.”

11. Carrie Fisher

Name	Carrie Frances Fisher
Date of birth	October 21, 1956
Place of birth	Burbank, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, writer
Height	5 feet 1 inch

Carrie Frances Fisher “hid in books” when she was a child, becoming called in her family as “the bookworm.” She spent her earliest years writing poetry and reading classic literature. She studied in Beverly Hills High School until the age of 16, when she appeared as a singer and debutante in the hit Broadway revival Irene (1973), starring her mother. Fisher’s time on Broadway interfered with her education, resulting in her dropping out of high school.

12. Stevie Nicks

Name	Carrie Frances Fisher
Date of birth	May 26, 1948
Place of birth	Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.
Occupation	Singer, songwriter
Height	5 feet 1 inch

Carrie Frances Fisher was born on May 26, 1948, to Barbara  and Jess Nicks. She is of German, English, Irish, and Welsh ancestry.

Nicks’ grandfather, Aaron Jess “A.J.” Nicks Sr., taught her to sing duets with him by the time she was 14 years old. Her mother was protective, keeping her at home “more than most people” and fostered in her daughter a love of fairy tales.

13. Maisie Williams

Name	Margaret Constance Williams
Date of birth	April 15, 1997
Place of birth	Bristol, England
Occupation	Actress, dancer, internet entrepreneur
Height	5 feet 1 inch

Margaret Constance Williams was born on 15 April 1997, in Bristol, to Hilary Frances (née Pitt), a university course administrator who later quit her job to support her Williams’s acting career, and Gary Williams. Her parents divorced when she was 4 months old. The youngest of four siblings – James, Ted, and Beth – Williams was raised by her mother and a stepfather in a three-bedroom council house in the village of Clutton, Somerset.

14. Ariel Winter

Name	Ariel Winter Workman
Date of birth	January 28, 1998
Place of birth	Fairfax, Virginia, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, voice actress
Height	5 feet 1 inch

Ariel Winter Workman got her first entertainment industry job in the 2002 Cool Whip commercial advertisement when she was four years old. She had her first TV role in an episode of Listen Up!, and followed it with participations in a variety of shows such as Monk, Bones, ER, and Freddie.

In the animated children’s show Phineas and Ferb, Winter voiced the character of Gretchen before winning the regular role of Alex Dunphy in the series Modern Family, which started in 2009 and ended in 2020.

15. Alexa Bliss

Name	Alexis Kaufman
Date of birth	August 9, 1991
Place of birth	Columbus, Ohio, U.S.
Occupation	Professional wrestler
Height	5 feet 1 inch

Alexis Kaufman was born in 1991. At the age of 15, she had a life-threatening eating disorder, but turning to fitness competitions helped her overcome it. With her parents’ permission, she also received breast augmentation when she was 17 to help overcome her eating disorders by making her feel more feminine, as her breasts stayed small naturally when she finished puberty and helped contribute to her eating disorders.

16. Judi Dench

Name	Judith Olivia Dench
Date of birth	December 9, 1934
Place of birth	Heworth, York, England
Occupation	Actress
Height	5 feet 1 inch

Judith Olivia Dench was born on 9 December 1934, in the Heworth area of York, the daughter of an English father and Irish mother.  Her father, Reginald Arthur Dench MC & Bar, was a doctor from Dorset growing up primarily in Dublin and fighting on the Western Front in World War I; her mother, Eleanora Olive (née Jones), was born in Dublin.

17. Kourtney Kardashian

Name	Kourtney Mary Kardashian
Date of birth	April 18, 1979
Place of birth	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Media personality, socialite
Height	5 feet 1 inch

Kourtney Mary Kardashian was born on April 18, 1979, to Kris (née Houghton) and Robert Kardashian. She has two younger sisters, Khloé and Kim, and a younger brother, Rob. Her parents divorced in 1991 and her mother married Bruce Jenner, the 1976 Summer Olympics decathlon winner (in 2015, Jenner changed her name to Caitlyn), later that year. Through their marriage, Kardashian gained step brothers Burton “Burt”, Brody, and Brandon; stepsister Casey; and later half-sisters Kylie and Kendall.

18. Isabela Moner

Name	Isabela Yolanda Moner
Date of birth	April 18, 1979
Place of birth	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Media personality, socialite
Height	5 feet 1 inch

Isabela Yolanda Moner is a media personality and socialite who was born in Los Angeles, California, on April 18, 1979,. She is approximately five feet tall, 1 inch tall. Her net worth is $5 million, and her current salary is $50. Isabela had guest starred in the T.V. shows such as Mulaney, The Mysteries of Laura, The Goldbergs, and Black-ish. She has acted in the movies Sleeping With Other People and Beaches, released in 2015, 2016, and 2018 respectively.

19. Christina Ricci

Name	Christina Ricci
Date of birth	February 12, 1980
Place of birth	Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Height	5 feet 1 inch

Christina Ricci was born in Santa Monica, California, on February 12, 1980, the youngest of four children of Ralph Ricci and Sarah (née Murdoch). Her father had a varied career, including many jobs as a lawyer, gym teacher, primal scream therapist, and drug counselor. Her mother worked as a Ford Agency model during the 1960s and later became a real estate agent. Regarding her surname, she has stated, “The Italian blood has been bred out of me.

20. Lali Espósito

Name	Mariana Espósito
Date of birth	October 10, 1991
Place of birth	Buenos Aires, Argentina
Occupation	Actress
Height	5 feet 1 inch

Mariana Espósito was born on February 12, 1980. She was cast as Roberta in 2004 in the juvenile telenovela Floricienta, created and produced by Cris Morena, which ran for 2 seasons on El Trece from 15 March 2004 to 2 December 2005. Floricienta was a record-smashing success in Latin America, Argentina, Europe, and Israel and has been broadcast in over 70 countries since its original run.

21. Bette Midler

Name	Bette Midler
Date of birth	December 1, 1945
Place of birth	Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii
Occupation	Singer, actress, comedian, author
Height	5 feet 1 inch

Bette Midler was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, where her family was one of the Jewish families in a mostly Asian neighborhood. Her father, Fred Midler, worked at a Navy base in Hawaii as a painter, and was also a house painter, and her mother, Ruth (née Schindel), was a seamstress and housewife. Both of them were born in New Jersey. Midler was named after actress Bette Davis, although Davis pronounced her first name in 2 syllables, and Midler uses one.

22. Jenni Rivera

Name	Dolores Janney Rivera Saavedra
Date of birth	July 2, 1969
Place of birth	Long Beach, California, U.S.
Occupation	Singer
Height	5 feet 1 inch

Dolores Janney Rivera Saavedra was born on July 2, 1969, and grew up in Long Beach, California, to Pedro Rivera and Rosa Saavedra, both from Mexico. Her parents raised her and her sister and 4 brothers in a musical, tight-knit household; her brother Lupillo is also a Mexican musician. Rivera fluently spoke both English and Spanish. Her family introduced her to traditional Mexican music, including the genres of  ranchera, banda, and norteña.

23. Ashley Olsen

Name	Ashley Fuller Olsen
Date of birth	June 13, 1986
Place of birth	Sherman Oaks, California, U.S.
Occupation	Fashion designer, businesswoman, actress
Height	5 feet 1 inch

Ashley Fuller Olsen was born on June 13, 1986. She is the daughter of David “Dave” Olsen, a mortgage banker and real estate developer, and Jarnette “Jarnie” Olsen (née Jones; b. 1954), a personal manager. Along with her twin, Mary-Kate, they have an older brother Trent, a younger sister and actress Elizabeth, and younger half-siblings Jake and Taylor (from their father’s second marriage). Her parents divorced in 1996.

24. Judith Sheindlin

Name	Judith Susan Blum
Date of birth	October 21, 1942
Place of birth	Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Lawyer, judge, author, television personality, court show arbitrator, producer
Height	5 feet 1 inch

Sheindlin was born Judith Susan Blum on October 21, 1942, to Russian-Jewish and German-Jewish parents. She described her dentist father Murray as “the greatest thing since sliced bread”. Judith’s mother, Ethel, worked as an office manager.  She described herself as “a meat and potatoes kind of gal.”

She graduated from James Madison High School in Brooklyn, and American University in Washington, D.C., where Judith graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in government.

25. Billie Lourd

Name	Billie Catherine Lourd
Date of birth	July 17, 1992
Place of birth	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Height	5 feet 1 inch

Billie Catherine Lourd starred as Lieutenant Connix in the Star Wars sequel film The Force Awakens in 2015. On The 2017 Ellen DeGeneres Show, Lourd said that she auditioned for the main role of Rey, which ultimately went to Daisy Ridley. She also appeared in the second installment, Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017), and the third, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019).

26. Soleil Moon Frye

Name	Soleil Moon Frye
Date of birth	August 6, 1976
Place of birth	Glendora, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, director, producer, screenwriter
Height	5 feet 1 inch

Soleil Moon Frye was born in Glendora, California, on August 6, 1976. Her mother is talent caterer and agent Sondra Peluce (née Londy), and her father was actor Virgil Frye (1930-2012. She has two half-brothers, Meeno Peluce and Sean Frye, both former child actors. Frye’s parents divorced when she was two years old. She studied in a private school in Los Feliz, and attended San Fernando Valley Professional School in Burbank.

27. Abigail Breslin

Name	Abigail Breslin
Date of birth	April 14, 1996
Place of birth	New York City, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, singer
Height	5 feet 1 inch

Abigail Breslin was born on April 14, 1996. Her career started at the age of 3 when she participated in a Toys “R” Us commercial. Breslin’s first acting role was in Signs (2002), directed by M. Night Shyamalan, in which she played Bo Hess, the daughter of Graham Hess (Mel Gibson), the main character. Signs got mostly positive reviews and was a box office big success, grossing $408 million worldwide.

28. Rosie Perez

Name	Rosie Perez
Date of birth	September 6, 1964
Place of birth	Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, choreographer, dancer, activist
Height	5 feet 1 inch

At the age of 19, Rosie Perez started her career in the early 1980s as a dancer on Soul Train. As a student at Los Angeles City College, with intentions to major in biochemistry, Perez said she relieved stress by going to nightclubs for ladies’ night. A talent scout from Soul Train asked her to appear on the show. Perez was not a professional dancer, but loved it so much she dropped out of school.

29. Pat Benatar

Name	Patricia Mae Andrzejewski
Date of birth	January 10, 1953
Place of birth	New York City, U.S.
Occupation	Singer, songwriter
Height	5 feet 0 inch

By 1983 Patricia Mae Andrzejewski had built a reputation for singing about “tough” subject matters, best exemplified by one of the most famous hits of her career, “Love Is a Battlefield” (penned by noted hit songwriter Holly Knight with Mike Chapman), released in December 1983. By then, Benatar’s sound had mellowed from hard rock to more atmospheric pop and the story-based video clip for “Love Is a Battlefield” was aimed squarely at MTV, even featuring her in a Michael Jackson-inspired group dance number, using Jackson’s Beat It director Bob Giraldi and choreographer Michael Peters.

30. Geri Halliwell

Name	Geraldine Estelle Halliwell
Date of birth	August 6, 1972
Place of birth	Watford, Hertfordshire, England
Occupation	Singer, songwriter, author, actress, philanthropist
Height	5 feet 1 inch

Geraldine Estelle Halliwell was born at Watford General Hospital in Watford, Hertfordshire, on 6 August 1972, the daughter of Laurence Francis Halliwell (1922–1993) and Ana María (née Hidalgo). Her father was of English, Swedish, and a “bit of French” descent, while her mother is Spanish, hailing from Huesca. Her paternal grandfather was Swedish, though born in Korsnäs, Finland.

31. Constance Wu

Name	Constance Wu
Date of birth	March 22, 1982
Place of birth	Richmond, Virginia, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Height	5 feet 1 inch

In 2014, Constance Wu appeared in Sundance Screenwriters’ Lab with two emerging Asian-American directors, Christopher Yogi and Yung Chang, in what she felt was a unique opportunity to support fellow Asian storytellers. In 2014, after landing a role in an unsuccessful comedy pilot, Wu won the lead role in the ABC comedy series Fresh Off the Boat alongside Randall Park.

32. Janeane Garofalo

Name	Janeane Marie Garofalo
Date of birth	September 28, 1964
Place of birth	Newton, New Jersey, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, former co-host
Height	5 feet 1 inch

Janeane Marie Garofalo was born in Newton, New Jersey, the daughter of Carmine and Joan Garofalo. Her father is a former executive at Exxon. Her mother was a secretary, in the petrochemical industry, who died of cancer when Janeane was 24. . Garofalo is of Italian and Irish descent. She was raised in various places, including Ontario, California; Madison, New Jersey; and Houston, Texas, where she graduated from James E. Taylor High School.

33. Danielle Fishel

Name	Danielle Christine Fishel
Date of birth	May 5, 1981
Place of birth	Mesa, Arizona, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, director, model, television personality
Height	5 feet 1 inch

In 1993, at 12 years old, Danielle Christine Fishel started her famous role as Topanga Lawrence-Matthews on the ABC series Boy Meets World. Originally written as a small part, Topanga became a recurring role. After a successful year, she became a show regular. Her character was an intelligent, sparky girl who was mature beyond her years; Fishel replaced the nerdy Stuart Minkus as the brains of the class. The show ended in 2000 after 7 years.

34. Mara Wilson

Name	Mara Elizabeth Wilson
Date of birth	July 24, 1987
Place of birth	Burbank, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Height	5 feet 1 inch

Mara Elizabeth Wilson was born on July 24, 1987. When she was five years old, she got interested in acting after watching her older brother Danny appear in TV commercials. Her parents were initially disinclined, but eventually agreed to allow her to act. After participating in several commercials for businesses like Bank of America, Lunchables, Texaco, and Marshalls, Wilson was invited to audition for the 1993 comedy film Mrs. Doubtfire.

35. Sheena Easton

Name	Sheena Shirley Orr
Date of birth	April 27, 1959
Place of birth	Bellshill, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Occupation	Singer, actress
Height	5 feet 1 inch

Sheena Shirley Orr was born on 27 April 1959, the youngest of 6 children of steel mill laborer Alex and Annie Orr. She has 2 brothers, Alex and Robert, and 3 sisters, Marilyn, Morag, and Anessa. Her earliest-famous public performance as a singer was in 1964 at the age of 5, when she sang “Early One Morning” for her aunt and uncle and various relatives at the couple’s 25th wedding anniversary celebration.

36. Susanna Hoffs

Name	Susanna Lee Hoffs
Date of birth	January 17, 1959
Place of birth	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Singer, musician, songwriter
Height	5 feet 2 inch

Susanna Lee Hoffs was born on January 17, 1959. She released a solo album, When You’re a Boy”, in 1991, which spawned a U.S Top 40 hit with “My Side of the Bed”. In the UK the single landed at No. 44, for only 4 weeks on chart, and the album also landed decently in Europe.

Hoffs recorded another album in 1993–94, prior to leaving Columbia Records, but it went unreleased. In 1996, Hoffs released her second solo album, Susanna Hoffs.

37. Jane Levy

Name	Jane Levy
Date of birth	December 29, 1989
Place of birth	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Height	5 feet 2 inch

Jane Levy was born on December 29, 1989. She moved to Los Angeles after 2 years in New York City. In early 2011, she played the role of character Mandy Milkovich, her first television role, during season one of the Showtime comedy-drama Shameless. In March 2011, Levy landed the first lead role of her acting career on the sitcom Suburgatory, with Cheryl Hines and Jeremy Sisto, forcing Emma Greenwell to replace Levy in her Shameless role for season 2 onward.

38. Emily Browning

Name	Emily Jane Browning
Date of birth	December 7, 1988
Place of birth	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupation	Actress
Height	5 feet 1 inch

Emily Jane Browning was born on December 7, 1988. In 2012, she replaced actress Ophelia Lovibond as the female lead in the movie Summer in February. The movie is based on the book of the same title, by Jonathan Smith. She was cast in God Help the Girl, a musical film by Sebastian and Belle front-man Stuart Murdoch in July 2012. She played Eve, and the role required live singing. Filming on the production started on 8 July 2012 and finished on 12 August 2012.

39. Rachael Harris

Name	Rachael Elaine Harris
Date of birth	January 12, 1968
Place of birth	Worthington, Ohio, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, comedian
Height	5 feet 1 inch

In 1992, Rachael Elaine Harris debuted on film in the film Treehouse Trolls as the Treehouse Mom. She recalls the experience, “But Treehouse Trolls, that just came out of an audition in this shitty theater. Like, it wasn’t even a theater. It was a room. Near Times Square. And I was like, “I hope this is a legitimate audition. I could be going in for a porn. I don’t know”.” Her film participations include roles in Kicking & Screaming, A Mighty Wind, For Your Consideration, Kicking & Screaming, Daddy Day Care, and Best in Show.

40. Jessica Parker Kennedy

Name	Jessica Parker Kennedy
Date of birth	October 3, 1984
Place of birth	Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Occupation	Actress
Height	5 feet 1 inch

Jessica Parker Kennedy  portrayed supervillain Plastique in the TV series Smallville, the role of Tami in the comedy film Another Cinderella Story in 2008 and the recurring appearance as Natalee on the TV series Kaya on MTV in 2007.

She was originally cast in the J. J. Abrams-produced spy drama series Undercovers as the younger sister of the female lead but was later replaced by Mekia Cox. She also played Melissa Glaser in the CW series The Secret Circle, until the show was canceled after a season in May 2012.

41. Alexa Vega

Name	Alexa Ellesse Vega
Date of birth	August 27, 1988
Place of birth	Miami, Florida, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, singer
Height	5 feet 1 inch

In 1996, Alexa Ellesse Vega starred as Jo Harding in Twister. She guest-starred in many TV shows and movies, including ER, Follow the Stars Home, The Bernie Mac Show, and Ghost Whisperer. Vega became famous worldwide in 2001 after starring as “Carmen Cortez” in Spy Kids. The first Spy Kids film was a huge success, and two sequels, Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams and Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over were filmed. During the shooting of the films she performed most of her own stunts. 

42. Madison Iseman

Name	Madison Iseman
Date of birth	February 14, 1997
Place of birth	Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Height	5 feet 2 inch

In April 2019, Madison Iseman was cast in the lead role of Rain Burroughs in the film Fear of Rain, which premiered in February 2021. In January 2021, she was cast in the television series I Know What You Did Last Summer, part of the franchise of the same name, in which she played twins Allison and Lennon. The series was canceled after one season in 2022. She will star alongside Mackenyu, Famke Janssen and Sean Bean in Knights of the Zodiac, the live-action film adaptation of the manga series Saint Seiya, which is set for release in 2023.

43. Karrueche Tran

Name	Karrueche Minters
Date of birth	May 17, 1988
Place of birth	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Model, actress, entrepreneur
Height	5 feet 1 inch

Karrueche Minters started her career in the fashion industry as a personal shopper. She worked at Nordstrom, which is located at the Westfield Topanga mall in Canoga Park, California from 2009 to 2012. After that, Tran worked as a freelance stylist in Hollywood.  In 2011, she first got public attention when she started dating R&B singer Chris Brown.

Around that time, she began modeling for local brands. Tran was the face of Lady Crooks, the women’s division under the streetwear brand Crooks and Castles for their Summer 2013 collection.

44. Lorrie Morgan

Name	Loretta Lynn Morgan
Date of birth	June 27, 1959
Place of birth	Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Occupation	Musician, singer, actress
Height	5 feet 1 inch

Loretta Lynn Morgan was born on June 27, 1959. Her work at Acuff-Rose led to her signing with that company’s Hickory Records label, which issued 2 singles in 1979: “Tell Me I’m Only Dreaming” and “Two People in Love” written by  Liz Anderson and Eddy Raven, respectively. Both singles made the lower parts of the Hot Country Songs charts that year. Another single, “I’m Completely Satisfied with You”, featured electronically overdubbed vocals of her father. It also made the charts by year’s end.

45. Leslie Caron

Name	Leslie Claire Margaret Caron
Date of birth	July 1, 1931
Place of birth	Boulogne-sur-Seine, Paris, France
Occupation	Actress, dancer
Height	5 feet 1 inch

Leslie Claire Margaret Caron was initially a ballerina. Gene Kelly discovered her talent in the Roland Petit company “Ballet des Champs Elysées” and cast her to participate opposite him in the musical An American in Paris in 1951, a role for which a pregnant Cyd Charisse was originally cast. The sunshine, prosperity, and abundance of California was a cultural shock to Caron. She had lived in Paris during the German occupation, which left her anemic and malnourished.

46. Queen Naija

Name	Queen Naija Bulls
Date of birth	October 17, 1995
Place of birth	Ypsilanti, Michigan, U.S.
Occupation	Singer, media personality
Height	5 feet 1 inch

In January 2018, Queen Naija Bulls did an interview video for the song “Medicine” with Genius. She documented on her YouTube channel a few meetings with record labels that she joined with her team/management. By March 2018, Queen’s initial song post of “Medicine” had more than 10 million views. An official music video was released a month later. The video acquired 4.5 million views on the day of its release, and has over 150+ million views as of December 2019.

47. Antonia Thomas

Name	Antonia Laura Thomas
Date of birth	November 3, 1986
Place of birth	London, England
Occupation	Actress, singer
Height	5 feet 1 inch

In 2009, Antonia Laura Thomas was cast as Alisha Daniels in Misfits, a day after leaving Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. In late 2011, she confirmed her exit from Misfits, telling that she had an “amazing time” on the show. She appeared in the MV for the Coldplay song “Charlie Brown” in 2012.

In 2013, Thomas was in the film Sunshine on Leith. A year later, she played the role of Evie in the British rom-com television show Scrotal Recall which aired on Channel 4.

48. Kellie Pickler

Name	Kellie Dawn Pickler
Date of birth	June 28, 1986
Place of birth	Albemarle, North Carolina, U.S.
Occupation	Singer, songwriter, actress, television personality
Height	5 feet 1 inch

At the age of 19, Kellie Dawn Pickler auditioned for American Idol in Greensboro, North Carolina, in the fall of 2005. She sang both Martina McBride’s “A Broken Wing” and Kelly Clarkson’s “Since U Been Gone”. The judges sent her to Hollywood. She advanced through the semi-final rounds in February. On March 9, she got into the Top 12.

Pickler was among judge Simon Cowell’s favorites. He once predicted Pickler would be in the final 3, and said he preferred her over the previous season’s winner, Carrie Underwood.

49. Amy Sedaris

Name	Amy Louise Sedaris
Date of birth	March 29, 1961
Place of birth	Endicott, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, comedian, writer
Height	5 feet 1 inch

A former member of Annoyance Theater comedy troupes and Chicago-based Second City, Amy Louise Sedaris‘ first major foray into television started on the 1995 Comedy Central sketch series Exit 57, which also starred Paul Dinello and Stephen Colbert. For her performance, Sedaris was nominated for Best Comedy Actress in the 17th CableACE Award and the series was nominated for Best Comedy Series. It ran for a total of 2 seasons.

50. Angela Kinsey

Name	Angela Faye Kinsey
Date of birth	June 25, 1971
Place of birth	Lafayette, Louisiana, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Height	5 feet 1 inch

Angela Faye Kinsey relocated to Los Angeles and had improvisation classes at iO West and with The Groundlings. After a two-woman show at iO, she was an operator at 1-800-Dentist and made small one-episode participations in various sitcoms. Kinsey voiced the character “Angela” on 2 episodes of King of the Hill. She starred as a receptionist named Pam Beesly for the American version of The Office in early 2005. After being told by producers that she was “a little too feisty for Pam”, Kinsey was called back to play the role of Angela Martin.