People Told Gwendoline Christie She Was Too Tall to Be an Actor

Gwendoline Christie is a talented actress best known for her roles on Game of Thrones and Star Wars Episode VII. Because of her role on Game of Thrones, most people see her a tough as nails woman that doesn’t care what anyone thinks about her. As hard as it is for us to imagine, once the camera stops rolling, most celebrities are exactly like us. They have to go through life’s ups and downs the same way anyone else has to. And although she may look like an extremely confident woman now, she had to struggle with the same thing that most of us had to deal with when we were younger, which body image insecurities. 

When you look at her, it may be hard to see anything that Gwendoline could possibly be insecure about, but apparently, she was told for most of her life that she was too tall. So, did her height hinder her chances at becoming an actor? Here is what we know about Gwendoline’s height and acting career.

 How tall is Gwendoline Christie?

Gwendoline is 6’3″ tall. That is pretty tall by anybody’s standards. In Hollywood’s standards, however, being an actress over 6 feet tall is almost unheard of. As of today, there are only a handful of actresses that reach the 6 feet mark. For an actress, being anything over 5’10” is considered pretty tall, so we can only imagine how self-conscience Gwendoline must have felt trying to fit into a world that seems to be made of petite women.

Gwendoline Christie was subjected to bullying due to her height

Gwendoline grew up in a small village in England. She has referred to the school that she attended when she was a child as a “village school in the countryside.” She has also said that she had already reached 5’7″ when she was just twelve years old. By the time she was 14, she was over 6 feet tall. Being that she was probably the tallest kid in school — maybe even the tallest kid that the other children had ever seen — she had to endure years of being bullied and teased for her height.

When she was older, she had realized that she wanted to become an actress. She attended the infamous Drama Centre London and was told by her teachers that her height would make it difficult for her to land a prominent acting job. Her height did make it harder for her, but that didn’t stop her from pursuing her dream.

Gwendoline Christie has embraced her differences

Even though other people had commented on her height throughout her entire life, Gwendoline had never looked at her height as anything negative. She had recently done an interview with Vogue. When the interviewer had asked her about being bullied as a child because of her height, Gwendoline replied: “I would rather talk now about how the obstacle has been overcome.”

She then went on to talk about how she never really gave any thought to what other people’s opinions were. In reference to when she first began acting, Gwendoline had said: “I never really gave too much stock to were the realities were, because it seemed even my infant mind that nothing interesting got done if you accepted the limitations other people put on you.”

Luckily, Gwendoline had the right train of thought that allowed her to not only pursue her dreams but to achieve them as well. She has gotten several extremely prominent acting jobs in some of Hollywood’s biggest movies. And thanks to her tall stature, she landed a lead role in one of the most-watched television shows of this decade. Manny girls now consider here a role model as they watched her transform into a tough warrior in Game of Thrones.