Kiran Shah

Kiran Shah is a Kenyan actor and stunt double. Born in Nairobi, he moved to India at twelve and later to Feltham, where he entered show business. Stunt coordinator Bob Anderson encouraged him to take on stunts, and Shah appeared as Bolum in The People That Time Forgot (1977). Guinness World Records lists him as the world's shortest stuntman, and he has acted in 31 films while performing stunts or doubling in 37. He doubled the hobbits in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit series, including scale work for Elijah Wood and Martin Freeman. His most featured screen role was Ginarrbrik in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005). Other credits include Legend (1985), Gothic (1986), The Sign of Four (1987), and Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), where he played Teedo. In 2024 he received an MBE for services to film.