Geena Davis Height, Weight and Body Measurements

Geena Davis is widely reported to be about 6 ft 0 in (roughly 183 cm), and she has never published a weight. As of 2026 the Oscar-winning actress is 70, and her height has been part of her screen identity since the 1980s.

Quick facts

Height and athletic build

Davis is one of Hollywood’s tallest leading women. At about six feet she’s roughly eight inches taller than the average American woman, and she has said she was a gangly teenager who towered over classmates, a feeling that eased as she moved into acting and modelling. She keeps a strong, athletic build, and she is a serious archer: she reached the semi-final stage in the national trials for the 2000 United States Olympic archery team after taking up the sport as an adult. No official weight figure exists, and it is not a topic she discusses.

On the red carpet she favours elegant, structured looks and flats or modest heels, since she rarely needs extra height. Her stature also made her a rarity in casting terms. Leading men in classic Hollywood were often taller than their co-stars, and Davis had to find roles where her height was an asset rather than a problem.

Early career

She studied at Boston University and worked as a model before landing her first screen part in Tootsie in 1982, in which she appeared alongside Dustin Hoffman as a fellow actress on a soap opera. She then starred in the sitcom Buffalo Bill and in films including Transylvania 6-5000 and The Fly in 1986 opposite Jeff Goldblum, a romance-horror that became a classic of its kind.

The Oscar and the classics

In 1988 she starred in Beetlejuice as the ghostly Barbara Maitland, and then won the Academy Award for best supporting actress for The Accidental Tourist. She earned an Oscar nomination for best actress for Thelma & Louise in 1991, the Ridley Scott road movie with Susan Sarandon that became a cultural landmark and is regularly cited in conversations about women in film. In 1992 she played Dottie Hinson in A League of Their Own, directed by Penny Marshall, a story about a women’s professional baseball league during the Second World War. Later action films such as Cutthroat Island and The Long Kiss Goodnight gave her a chance to play physical, swashbuckling heroes, which suited her athleticism.

Television and voice work

She won a Golden Globe for the political drama Commander in Chief in 2006, playing the first woman president of the United States. Later she appeared in The Exorcist series, Grey’s Anatomy and GLOW. She also played Mrs. Little in the Stuart Little films, a family-friendly role as the mother of a household that adopts a very small mouse.

Advocacy

In 2004 she founded the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, which studies how women and girls are portrayed on screen and works with studios on better representation. The institute is one of the most cited organisations of its kind. Her work there led to her receiving the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, an honour presented to her at the Governors Awards in 2019. She’s also a member of Mensa, and she wrote a memoir, Dying of Politeness, published in 2022.

What fans ask

The first question is usually about her height, and whether she’s the tallest actress of her generation. She’s among the tallest, though not alone: Sigourney Weaver and Brigitte Nielsen are other notable examples. Fans also ask about the archery, which is a genuine pursuit rather than a publicity stunt. She’s talked in interviews about taking it up seriously and putting in the practice time. Younger viewers ask which film to see first. Thelma & Louise remains the standard answer, with A League of Their Own as a lighter alternative.

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