Gwendoline Christie is at all times a formidable, hanging presence on display. Most not too long ago, she starred alongside Jenna Ortega on Netflix’s “Wednesday” as Larissa Weems, the principal of Nevermore Academy, the place Ortega’s titular heroine goes to highschool. This summer season, she appeared as Lucifer on the streamer’s “The Sandman” collection, which was renewed this fall. Fans, in fact, first fell in love along with her as the best knight in Westeros, Ser Brienne of Tarth, on “Game of Thrones,” and she or he introduced her sword-fighting abilities to outer house for the Star Wars sequel trilogy, the place she performed Captain Phasma. And whereas her appearing chops are high notch, there’s another excuse Christie makes such an influence in all the pieces she seems in: her extremely tall peak.
How tall is Christie? The 44-year-old actor clocks in at 6’3″ (191 centimeters within the metric system). Her “Wednesday” costars actually assist emphasize her peak, too: Ortega and Christina Ricci are each 5’1″, Luis Guzmán is 5’5″, and Catherine Zeta-Jones is 5’7″. She’s additionally fairly a bit taller than her “Sandman” costar Tom Sturridge, who’s 5’10”, and her frequent Star Wars scene companions John Boyega and Oscar Issac, who’re each 5’9″. Her “Game of Thrones” costar Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is way nearer to her peak at 6’2″ — however that is earlier than Christie places on heels, which she typically wears. Christie’s companion, Giles Deacon, can also be just a few inches shorter than her when she wears heels.
Back in November, Christie opened up about her “Wednesday” transformation, which noticed her sporting extra historically female outfits and make-up than she often wears on display. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, she described Weems’s model as “this Hitchcock-style heroine.” Praising costume designer Colleen Atwood, she added, “It is the primary time I’ve ever felt stunning on display.”
“The manner she made me really feel was [that] my physique felt celebrated and exquisite. Never as soon as did I really feel like there was one thing to cover or one thing to be ashamed of,” Christie added. “She made me really feel unimaginable.” Christie can also be a fashionista in her personal proper; not solely has she worn headline-making outfits on the purple carpet (together with some designed by Deacon), however she’s additionally modeled for manufacturers like Vivienne Westwood, Thom Browne, Miu Miu, and Tomo Koizumi.
Back in 2015, she instructed Harper’s Bazaar that she was typically instructed as an up-and-coming actor that “when you had been taller than common, you could not act on-screen. But you have to grasp in there as a result of issues change.” She added that she was grateful to have the ability to shift perceptions by her work. “It means there is a shift in our tradition and our mind-set about how ladies are perceived,” she stated on the time. “People need to see a extra numerous illustration of ladies than the homogenized ones we have had to this point.”
“Daring to me is to step exterior the confines of typical thought,” she instructed the outlet with amusing, including, “In heels.”