Kiran Shah

Kiran Shah (born September 28, 1956, in Kenya) is a 4′2″ actor and stuntman who played the Ewok Brethupp and many stunt Ewoks, and the tortured power droid in Return of the Jedi, after originally being only called on for the fitting of the original Ewok costumes. He returned to Star Wars in the 2010s. He played Infrablue Zedbeddy Coggins, Pru Sweevant, and Teedo in The Force Awakens; and Neepers Panpick in The Last Jedi. For Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Shah worked as a creature and droid performer and played the Blutopian Oolin Musters, and played Karjj in Solo: A Star Wars Story. In The Rise of Skywalker, he plays the Aki-Aki Nambi Ghima, the mechanic Yipsit and a GNK-series power droid. Shah worked as a puppeteer on the Disney+ television series Star Wars: Andor, where he portrayed the character Granik and a sleeping Blutopian.

Since 2003, Shah has held the Guinness World Record as the "shortest professional stuntman currently working in film." Shah's many film credits include Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Dark Crystal, the villainous dwarf Ginarrbrik in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and the Lord of the Rings trilogy (where he was Elijah Wood's scale double as Frodo Baggins).

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