British actor best known for playing Thorin Oakenshield in the Hobbit trilogy and for films such as Into the Storm and TV series Spooks and Robin Hood.

I'm 6-foot-2 1/2.
Why would they want a six-foot-two actor to play a dwarf?

How tall is Richard Armitage

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Also, we spent most of the shoot much bigger than a 6-foot-2 guy. I mean, I had lifts in my shoes, I was wider, I was taller, and bigger-haired.
I arrive and, yes, was first greeted by Sam. Firstly, he was tall; for a moment I thought, Is this swine taller than me? [Sam: Yes!] I'm used to being the tallest person on set and its a source of great pride that Richard Armitage had to have lifts in his shoes to get him to my height in The Hobbit, even though we were both dwarves!
-- Graham McTavish
Were you surprised to be cast as Thorin, a dwarf, in The Hobbit, given you're 6ft 2in?
Yes! I'm actually 6ft 3in - I think I have grown through doing Pilates. I was really baffled when my agent said that they wanted to audition me for a short dwarf.
-- Metro, 2021 (Jun 22)
Even the biggest names have to fight for the roles they want. People are expecting to see something they've seen before, and when I go to auditions, the directors are surprised to see that I'm almost 6'3'' and not 4'11''