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Warwick Davis and Raymond Griffiths in Willow (2022)

Warwick Davis, Kevin Pollak, and Amalia Vitale in Willow (2022)

Warwick Davis, Amar Chadha-Patel, Ellie Bamber, Erin Kellyman, and Ruby Cruz in Willow (2022)

Warwick Davis, Amar Chadha-Patel, Tony Revolori, Ellie Bamber, Erin Kellyman, and Ruby Cruz in Willow (2022)

Warwick Davis, Amar Chadha-Patel, Tony Revolori, Ellie Bamber, and Ruby Cruz in Willow (2022)

Warwick Davis and Graham Hughes in Willow (2022)

Warwick Davis, Terrence Howard, and Denise Dowse in Ray (2004)

Warwick Davis, Michael Henbury Ballan, Alan Bennett, Hayley Burroughs, Peter Burroughs, Willie Coppen, Sadie Corre, John Cumming, Jack Purvis, Samantha Davis, and Kim Davis in Willow (1988)

Warwick Davis in Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019)

Warwick Davis, Jerome St. John Blake, and Andy Secombe in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)

Warwick Davis in Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017)

Harrison Ford, Anthony Daniels, Carrie Fisher, and Warwick Davis in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)

Warwick Davis, Rupert Grint, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Jon Key in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)

Warwick Davis, Maggie Smith, Leslie Phillips, and Daniel Radcliffe in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)

Warwick Davis, Cavin Cornwall, and D.C. Barns in Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015)

Warwick Davis in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)

Warwick Davis in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)

Warwick Davis, Mel Giedroyc, and Sue Perkins in Mel & Sue (2015)

Alan Rickman, Warwick Davis, and Martin Freeman in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)

Alan Rickman, Warwick Davis, Sam Rockwell, Yasiin Bey, and Martin Freeman in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)

Alan Rickman, Warwick Davis, Sam Rockwell, Yasiin Bey, and Zooey Deschanel in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)

Alan Rickman and Warwick Davis in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)

Alan Rickman, Warwick Davis, and Zooey Deschanel in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)

Alan Rickman, Warwick Davis, Yasiin Bey, Peter Burroughs, Martin Freeman, and Garth Jennings in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)

Warwick Davis, Niki Botelho, and Aubree Miller in Ewoks: The Battle for Endor (1985)

Warwick Davis, Bobby Bell, and Aubree Miller in The Ewok Adventure (1984)

Warwick Davis and Ricky Gervais in Life's Too Short (2011)

Warwick Davis and Nick Mohammed in Life's Too Short (2011)

English actor Warwick Davis was born in Epsom, Surrey, England, the son of Susan J. (Pain) and Ashley Davis, an insurance broker. Davis was born with the condition spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenital (SED), which caused his dwarfism. He was educated at City of London Freemen's School. When he was 11 years old, his grandmother heard a radio appeal for people under four feet tall to appear in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983). A huge Star Wars fan, Davis auditioned successfully and was cast as an extra, playing an Ewok. Kenny Baker was cast as lead Ewok Wicket, but fell ill so George Lucas chose Davis to replace him. The film was a smash hit, and Davis went on to reprise his role as Wicket in further TV projects - The Ewok Adventure (1984) and Ewoks: The Battle for Endor (1985).

Davis next big role came with a part specifically written for him, as the titular hero in Willow (1988). Other successes followed with roles in such projects as Prince Caspian and the Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1989) and two distinctly different film series - the 'Harry Potter' and 'Leprechaun' film series. In 2006, he appeared in a cameo role in Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's hit sitcom Extras (2005), which led to the pair writing a series specifically for Davis, the comic mockumentary Life's Too Short (2011).

Davis, along with his father-in-law Peter Burroughs, is also the director of an acting agency for very short and tall actors called Willow Management. He is married to Samantha Davis and they have a son and a daughter.

Warwick Davis at an event for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)

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