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Ted Lasso's Hannah Waddingham talks about navigating film and television as a tall woman
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August 10, 2026
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1:41Now PlayingHannah Waddingham talks about navigating film and television as a tall woman who stands 5 feet 11 inches.
Her “Ted Lasso" character, Rebecca Welton, loves to wear heels — which makes Waddingham 6 feet 2 inches. Waddingham says Apple and the show's co-creator and writer Jason Sudeikis "never shied away" from her height.
But Waddingham adds that her height wasn’t always celebrated in the industry. In fact, when she first started in her acting career, she said she would stand "slumped down" in order to appear shorter.
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