7 female celebrities you didn't realize are 6 feet tall

Jane Lynch, who is known for depicting Sue Sylvester in "Glee," is 6 feet tall.

In 2014, People reported that Lynch told O Magazine, "If I find something that fits, it's usually a designer's mistake, and I can never get it again."

To ensure she always has clothes that fit, Lynch said she buys menswear-inspired clothing, including Gap's extra-long jeans.

Lynch isn't the only tall female "Glee" star. Dot-Marie Jones, who played the role of Shannon Beiste, is 6 feet and 3 inches tall.

In 1991, she told The Item, "I was 5-6 in the eighth grade and went to 6-1 in nine months."

Before becoming an actress, she was a star athlete. In fact, Jones was originally 6 feet and 4 inches, and it was her athleticism that caused her the various knee injuries that shrunk her down an inch.

"I've had 11 knee injuries," Jones told E! News in 2010. "On my left leg, they cut out a pie wedge about 3 inches above my knee."

According to the Arizona Daily Sun, Geena Davis spoke candidly about her journey towards accepting her height in a 2001 interview with Ladies' Home Journal.

"When I started to model, I went to a couple of agencies and they said, 'No, you won't fit the clothes,'" Davis said.

"So I started saying I was 5-foot-10 and it worked out better in interviews," she said. "I kept that up for a long time."

Davis has since embraced her tall stature. "But then a couple of years ago, I said, 'To hell with it. My career is working. I'll admit I'm 6 feet tall,'" she said.

During her childhood and adolescence, Jones became increasingly insecure about her height.

"I never had a problem with it until I discovered boys," Jones told People in 2020. "Then I really became aware of it."

She added, "It took me a while, but I'm totally into it now. I wear 6-inch heels."

In 2012, Yahoo! News reported that in Johnston's memoir, "Guts: The Endless Follies and Tiny Triumphs of a Giant Disaster," she wrote she was "mortified" by her tall stature and felt like a "freak."

She has since become accepting of her height, having posted various tweets expressing pride in being tall.

As a child, Danish actress Brigitte Nielsen was bullied for being tall and skinny. In 2019, she told The Guardian that kids at school would refer to her as "giraffen."

Although she wanted to follow in her mother's footsteps and become a librarian, she was scouted by a modeling agency, and her career took off from there.

"I'm definitely 6 feet. In my heels I'm 6 feet 3 inches," Janney told NPR in 2014.

"I felt like my career started late and I think it was because of my height — and maybe some of my confidence issues," she continued.

Janney also believes her height is a determining factor when it comes to the roles in which she is cast.

"It's made me definitely more of a character actress in terms of my love of doing comedy," she said. "I get cast as either the smartest woman in the room or the drunkest woman in the room, and a lot of stuff in between. But I do well getting those kinds of parts — authoritative or completely crazy, which I love."