Size Matters Not
Warwick A. Davis

At three-foot-six, it’s clear that Warwick Davis packs more talent and experience per square inch than much of Hollywood. Collectively, the films he’s been in to-date have grossed over $6.75billion worldwide, currently making Warwick the eighteenth highest grossing actor in the world, just above Cate Blanchett (19) and Ben Stiller (20).

It all started in1981, when Warwick was just eleven-years-old. His gran told him about a radio announcement calling for people below four feet to appear in the new Star Wars film, Return of the Jedi. Warwick, then two-foot-eleven, popped down to Elstree Studios and was delighted to be given a minor role as an Ewok - but his acting so impressed George Lucas that the director recast the amazed eleven-year-old as Wicket, one of the film’s lead creature characters.

It was the beginning of an extraordinary career. Since then, Warwick has helped destroy a Death Star, defeated an evil sorceress, taught magic to Harry Potter, safeguarded the Philosopher’s Stone, become a Jedi Master, reluctantly hitchhiked across the galaxy in search for the answer to the Ultimate Question, tried to assassinate Prince Caspian, embarked on a psychotic killing spree as a gold-obsessed leprechaun (six times, no less) and performed in a jazz club with the late, great Ray Charles.

Warwick has acted alongside countless big and small screen legends, from Harrison Ford to Val Kilmer and from a pre-Friends Jennifer Anniston to BAFTA-winning Ricky Gervais in Extras. He’s worked with some of the world’s most famous directors, including Oscar-winning Ron Howard along with legend and long-time friend George Lucas, playing key roles in family favourites, Oscar-winning epics, bizarre cult movies as well as several hit TV dramas in the UK and the USA.

Besides many exclusive interviews and contributions from some world-famous names and a unique insider’s perspective of the making of some of the world's best-loved films over the past three decades, readers will discover how Warwick turned his rare genetic condition (spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita) to his advantage; how he met and fell in love with his actress wife, Samantha while filming with David Bowie and how their children plan to follow in their parents’ footsteps. Size Matters Not is a sometimes touching, often hilarious and always inspirational story of the life of one of the UK’s most successful actors, a story which will delight and surprise readers of all ages.