Anna Chlumsky's Height: How She Embraces Her Short Frame

Anna Chlumsky’s height of 5 feet 2 inches (157.5 cm) is slightly below the average height of an American woman, which is approximately 5 feet 4 inches (162.6 cm).

With her Bohemian Czech and Croatian heritage, the petite actress is rumored to wear a shoe size 7 (US), which converts to approximately UK 5, European 37-38, and Japanese 23.5.

Height Comparison with Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is slightly taller than Anna Chlumsky, standing at 5 feet 2 ½ inches (158.8 cm), while Anna is 5 feet 2 inches (157.5 cm), making Julia half an inch taller than Anna.

Anna Chlumsky and Julia Louis-Dreyfus have a minimal height difference. Anna Chlumsky stands at 5 feet 2 inches (157.5 cm), while Julia Louis-Dreyfus is slightly taller at 5 feet 2 ½ inches (158.8 cm), making Julia just half an inch taller than Anna (Credit: Kathy Hutchins / Shutterstock)

Anna Chlumsky’s Net Worth and Career

Anna Chlumsky has an estimated net worth of $5 million as of 2024. She has earned her net worth through her acting career, which has spanned over three decades. She is best known for her roles in the films My Girl (1991) and My Girl 2 (1994) and the television series Veep (2012-2019).

Anna Chlumsky’s Quotes on Acting, Life, and Family

“I pray every night. I just talk to God and I can go to sleep. I don’t worry anymore.” – Anna Chlumsky

“I love… anything in black and white. Just put it on the TV, I’ll watch.” – Anna Chlumsky

“Right now I’m just thinking about school and trying to get those grades and keep them up! In case I become a Norma Desmond when I grow up, I can have something to fall back on!” – Anna Chlumsky

“I guess it’s nice to know I still resonate in people’s minds.” – Anna Chlumsky

Anna Chlumsky wearing a graceful yellow dress paired with chic pink strappy heels at The Roundabout Gala 2023 at The Ziegfeld Ballroom on March 6, 2023, in New York City (Credit: M10s / TheNews2 / Cover Images)

“You can ask any set decorator on any set where I’ve had to be in an office, I always kind of claim it – I put Post-its everywhere, and I kind of make it look lived-in.” – Anna Chlumsky

“I watched ‘My Girl’ as an adult pretty recently, and it’s a good movie.” – Anna Chlumsky

“In order to satirize adequately, I think you need to bring people down to Earth and be like, ‘Yeah, these people drink coffee and have tummy troubles and they go to the bathroom like anybody else, and they all have relationship problems, if they even have relationships.'” – Anna Chlumsky

Anna Chlumsky displays her feet in pink sandals (Credit: M10s / TheNews2 / Cover Images)

“I didn’t want to go down any scarier path of low self-esteem than I was already on the track for. So during my second year of college I was like, ‘I’m over it! I have to go see what this other thing called life is about!'” – Anna Chlumsky

“There were a lot of signs being thrown at me, a lot of angels I was meeting, inspiring me to get back into show business.” – Anna Chlumsky

“There are songs where no matter how much you know you shouldn’t – like the Ying Yang Twins’ ‘Shake’ – I’ll be in a dress, and I’ll krump to it. It’s horrible!” – Anna Chlumsky

“People look to you to replace a part in their lives that they can’t get back. You can’t get the past back, you can’t do it. We’ve all tried.” – Anna Chlumsky

Anna Chlumsky stunning onlookers in a strapless black dress that accentuated her figure at the American Ballet Theatre Gala on June 13, 2022, in New York City (Credit: Janet Mayer / INSTARimages / Cover Images)

“We’re at this place where we’re pushing the next stylistic envelope.” – Anna Chlumsky

“But here’s the thing: I had this great job, and I would still feel terribly depressed. I would just be like, ‘This isn’t the sweet spot. I thought this would be it, and I don’t feel happy.'” – Anna Chlumsky

“I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating.” – Anna Chlumsky

“My family and school life are important to me.” – Anna Chlumsky

“I really don’t like to do back-to-back movies. I concentrate on things at home. My family and school life are important to me. I try to do one movie a year.” – Anna Chlumsky

Arian Moayed sported a Chicago Cubs hat during the show, while his petite Inventing Anna co-star Anna Chlumsky showcased her style in a lovely light pink coat paired with matching pants at the opening night of Second Stage Theater’s production of “Take Me Out” on Broadway at The Hayes Theatre on April 4, 2022, in New York City (Credit: John Nacion / Startraksphoto / Cover Images)

“Even on the worst days I am without a doubt still happier doing this than I am doing anything else.” – Anna Chlumsky

“It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn’t really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.” – Anna Chlumsky

“A lot of movies treat kids like idiots.” – Anna Chlumsky

“It was more like having unwanted attention as a child – if you’d walk around, people would recognize you, and it would be in a weird, almost making-fun-type manner.” – Anna Chlumsky

“Show business got really tainted for me.” – Anna Chlumsky

“From the very start of all of this, my mom has read the scripts first. And if she liked something, she let me read it. She told our agent what kinds of parts that we would want.” – Anna Chlumsky

Anna Chlumsky and Shaun So met during their undergraduate studies at the University of Chicago in the early 2000s and married on March 8, 2008 (Credit: Walter McBride / INFphoto)

“Kids are truthful by nature.” – Anna Chlumsky

“Whenever people are excited about ‘My Girl,’ I always think if I met the kids from ‘The Neverending Story.’ I would probably be the same way.” – Anna Chlumsky

“Growing up it was the exception because I was maybe the only one in my school or my circle of friends that had that experience. But now that I know more people in the industry, I am realizing this happens to almost everybody.” – Anna Chlumsky

“When you’re a child, no matter if you’re doing show business or sports or school or anything, you just want to make the adults happy.” – Anna Chlumsky

“I was an international studies major.” – Anna Chlumsky

“I had no idea of the size of my bank account as a teen, and I didn’t care to know. That was my mom’s job, I figured that I would just find out when I turned 18. If you can’t trust your mom, then who can you trust?” – Anna Chlumsky

“I don’t let it bother me too much if someone doesn’t like me. I just figure there’s no accounting for taste. It’s not me, it’s my acting. It’s like if someone doesn’t like someone’s food, they just don’t like my acting.” – Anna Chlumsky

At the 2019 Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, California, Anna Chlumsky made a striking appearance in a J.Mendel Resort 2020 gown featuring a beautiful lavender and teal pattern (Credit: Sara De Boer / Startraksphoto)

“Kissing Macaulay Culkin was like kissing a brother. It was really no big deal.” – Anna Chlumsky

“When I graduated from college I thought I was over with show business and was pursuing other things.” – Anna Chlumsky

“First, I was a fact checker for Zagat and then I was an editorial assistant for HarperCollins publishing house.” – Anna Chlumsky

“Supposedly I haven’t changed.” – Anna Chlumsky

“Kids are brought into show business because they are cute and see truth and they’re very bright. But there’s a sense of doing it because you want the adults to be approving of you. You want to make them happy.” – Anna Chlumsky

“Keep in mind that there are computers, that do touch things up. Like when I got a hold of the poster for ‘Gold Diggers,’ I said: ‘Hey, wait a minute! Those aren’t my teeth!'” – Anna Chlumsky

Actress Anna Chlumsky looked beautiful in a Vince Spring 2019 sky blue pleated slip dress at the “Wine Country” world premiere at Paris Theatre on May 8, 2019, in New York City (Credit: Media Punch / INSTARimages)

“When moms and dads put their kids in acting class, good luck. Because you’re just filling them with stuff they don’t need yet.” – Anna Chlumsky

“I’m a total nerd.” – Anna Chlumsky

“Yeah, there was a six-year period where I was pretty much done with show business. During college and then for about two years after college.” – Anna Chlumsky

“People have good and bad days.” – Anna Chlumsky

“Some people are really good at their jobs, some people are really bad.” – Anna Chlumsky

“I’m interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don’t watch politics for sport.” – Anna Chlumsky

“I don’t have a Twitter account.” – Anna Chlumsky

Anna Chlumsky’s Cobalt Blue Pumps: A Look at the Iconic Ivy Kirzhner Shoes

In April 2013, Anna Chlumsky stepped out for the New York premiere of the American drama television series The Company You Keep.

Anna Chlumsky wears her hair down at the New York premiere of “The Company You Keep” held on April 1, 2013, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City (Credit: Andres Otero/WENN)

Although we would have liked to know what kind of dress the “My Girl” actress wore underneath her velvety coat that night, we got a nice view of her eye-catching blue pumps.

Anna Chlumsky’s feet in cobalt blue Ivy Kirzhner platform pumps

Anna sported a pair of iconic cloisonné-cast-metal platforms by Ivy Kirzhner. These cobalt blue shoes are called the “Pyramid” pumps, and they feature a hand-enameled design and — prepare to be amazed — 18K gold finishing!

These less-than-$500 shoes are said to be Ivy Kirzhner’s best-selling pumps.