15 Facts About Kiran Shah

Kiran Jethalal Shah was born on 28 September 1956 and is a Kenyan actor and stunt double.

Kiran Shah lived in Kenya until he was twelve years old, when he moved to India with his family.

Kiran Shah played the part of Bolum in The People That Time Forgot.

Kiran Shah is often confused with Deep Roy; they are both dwarf Nairobi-born Kenyan actors of Indian descent who got their starts in film and television in the late 1970s.

Kiran Shah is the world's shortest stuntman according to the Guinness World Records.

Kiran Shah has appeared as an actor in 31 films; and 37 as stuntman or body double.

Kiran Shah has appeared as a stunt double or stand-in in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film series.

Kiran Shah was the scale double for Elijah Wood as Frodo, though he doubled for all the other main hobbits, being the only scale-double capable of stunts.

Kiran Shah doubled Bilbo Baggins as played by both Martin Freeman and Ian Holm.

Kiran Shah is one of only three actors to play the titular character in the Hobbit films.

Kiran Shah's most featured role was in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, where he played Ginarrbrik.

Kiran Shah portrayed an Andaman islander in the Sherlock Holmes film The Sign of Four, and the monster who came out of a painting and attacked Natasha Richardson in the 1986 film Gothic.

Kiran Shah appeared as the mysterious figure in the Steven Moffat scripted "Listen", the fourth episode of the eighth series of Doctor Who, episode 2 of series 10 as Emojibot 1 in "Smile".

Kiran Shah appeared in the 2015 Star Wars: The Force Awakens, as Teedo, a small, brutish scavenger that roams the planet Jakku's vast wasteland on his semi-mechanical Luggabeast.

Kiran Shah's poetry has been published in Great Britain and the United States, and is based on his personal thoughts, feelings, and experiences.