Kiran Shah is a Kenyan-Indian actor and a stuntman. Shah was born in Nairobi, Kenya. He lived in Kenya until he was twelve years old, when he moved to India with his family. While living in India, he became interested in films, and when his family moved to Crawley, he became involved in show business. His first film was the 1977 film Candleshoe, as a stand-in. When stunt coordinatorBob Anderson asked him to do her stunts as well, his career was started. Shah played the part of Bolum in the 1977 film The People That Time Forgot. Shah is often confused with Deep Roy; they are both dwarfKenyan actors of Indian descent who got their starts in film and television in the late 1970s. He is the world's shortest stuntman according to the Guinness World Records. He has appeared as an actor in 31 films; 37 as stuntman or body double.
Stand-in, stunt, and background work
He has been in several blockbuster films since, such as Superman, Superman II, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Dark Crystal, Return of the Jedi, Legend, Aliens, The Sign of Four, Bullseye!, Braveheart, and Titanic where he stunt doubled all the children in the film. He has appeared as a stunt double or stand-in in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film series. He was the scale double for Elijah Wood as Frodo., though he doubled for all the other main hobbits, being the only scale-double capable of stunts. He doubled Bilbo Baggins as played by both Martin Freeman and Ian Holm. He is one of only three actors to play the titular character in the Hobbit films.
Character work
The most featured of these was as ', where he played Ginarrbrik. He portrayed an Andaman islander in a Sherlock Holmes film The Sign of Four. A favorite film role is the monster who came out of a painting and attacked Natasha Richardson in the 1987 filmGothic. In addition to doubling for Martin Freeman as Bilbo in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, he also appeared as the Goblin Scribe. Shah appeared as the mysterious figure in the Steven Moffat scripted "Listen", the fourth episode of the eighth series of Doctor Who, also episode 2 of series 10 as Emojibot 1 in "Smile". Shah appeared in the 2015 ', as Teedo, a small, brutish scavenger that roams the planet Jakku's vast wasteland on his semi-mechanical Luggabeast.
Poetry
In addition to being an actor and a stuntman, Kiran is also a poet. His poetry has been published in Great Britain and the United States, and is based on his personal thoughts, feelings, and experiences.
