How tall is Emily Watson

Emily Watson's Height

5ft 8 (172.7 cm)

English actress, best known for roles in films such as Breaking the Waves, Red Dragon, War Horse, Miss Potter, Punch-Drunk Love, The Boxer, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers and Appropriate Adult. In a 1998 Chicago Tribune article it described her as "5-foot-8" and a Sydney Morning Herald article mentioned "One of the odd effects of her apparent fragility is that it comes as a surprise to see how tall she is - 172cm in bare feet."

How tall is Emily Watson
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Average Guess (11 Votes)
5ft 7.57in (171.6cm)
Miss Sandy Cowell said on 28/Sep/20
Yes, I knew Emily is tall!

In last week's 'Apropriate Adult', Dominic West didn't tower over her and I remember anyway that she's tall from other things I've seen her in.

So she was in 'Red Dragon' and Dominic West in 'Hannibal Rising', so at least they had a subject to chat about between takes! 😉💐
Nik said on 16/Jan/20
5'8" is fine!
Miss Sandy Cowell said on 14/Jan/20
💐🎂💝🎈 Happy Birthday Emily! 🎈💝🎂💐

Wishing actress Emily Watson a sensational 53rd Birthday today. She's starred in some top films over the years!

5ft8 on her Birthday. 😁👍🍰


💐🎂💝🎈💐🎂💝🎈💐🎂💝🎈💐🎂💝🎈
Rampage(-_-_-)Clover said on 3/Jun/15
I think she's very beautiful and a great actress.
Rob, you need to add The Boxer to that list.
Carter said on 15/May/15
She's very beautiful, but in an unusual way, and somehow her strong height is part of her appeal, I think. Fabulous actress.
Arch Stanton said on 23/Mar/14
Rob can you mention Appropriate Adult, the TV film which she won a BAFTA for about the Fred West trial, Hilary and Jackie, Punch-Drunk Love and the The Life and Death of Peter Sellers?
Arch Stanton said on 23/Mar/14
Yeah she looks minimum this next to Jeremy Irvine in War Horse.
Arch Stanton said on 16/Feb/14
She's pretty tall yeah, looked about this next to Ewan Mcgregor in Miss Potter.
Arch Stanton said on 16/Feb/14
Rob can you mention Appropriate Adult, the TV film which she won a BAFTA for about the Fred West trial, Hilary and Jackie, Punch-Drunk Love and the The Life and Death of Peter Sellers? She's not a woman I'd typically consider particularly attractive or sexy, a bit frumpy at times really, but my god I was shocked how hot her body looked in Synecdoche, New York. I was really surprised. Looks are deceptive, she's got in going on!
Haily said on 13/Feb/12
Emma Watson is about 5ft 6in but if anything only a bit shorter and someone said that if i though she was over 5.5 i was delusional. i am not delusional! i just do my research!
Shaun said on 17/Sep/11
Yeha you think of her as frail and ill looking.

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Actually she does look tall range next to 6' Dominic West.
melissa said on 26/Jan/11
surprised how tall she is actually. She's 5'8" and I just thought she'd be at most 5'5". Always makes me happy to see since I'm 6', and the ones I think are tall turn out not to be. Like Sandra Bullock. When I first saw her I thought at least 5'8" not even. Oh, another BIG surprise is Lily Cole (up and coming young actress keep your eyes out for her) from the Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. She's 5'10" and I thought maybe 5'7" but actually figured way less, she look so delicate even more so than Emily Watson. Btw, "the Imaginarium..." the best movie I've seen in forever, RIP Heath Ledger
Theatreguy said on 29/Jul/08
Just watched "The Proposition" and she is definitely taller than her co-star Ray Winstone. Even assuming that she's wearing 1 to 2-inch heels (no more than that, because it's a period film set in old Australia, so no high heels back then), to be taller than 5'9-ish Winstone in his shoes, she has to be at least 5'8"
Cpt. Crunch said on 6/Nov/07
Definitely deceptively tall. In Red Dragon, She seemed 'fragile' but she was shorter than only the 6 footers. She was taller than the other male actors.
Anonymous said on 9/Jun/07
I'd give her 5'7.5-5'7.75, not quite 5'8, she doesn't look 10 cm taller than Renee Zellweger.
CelebHeights Editor said on 2/Jan/06
From a 2000 guardian interview, "One of the odd effects of her apparent fragility is that it comes as a surprise to see how tall she is - 5ft 8ins in bare feet - even though the evidence is there in the films. In The Boxer, she towers above her screen father, Brian Cox, and walks practically shoulder to shoulder with the stringy Day-Lewis"

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