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Debbie Lee Carrington

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He worked in fantastic genre films such as “Total Recall”, “Men in Black” and “Return of the Jedi”, where he played an Ewok. Actress Debbie Lee Carrington died on March 24, 2018 at the age of 58, as reported by Mike Quinn, another cast member of “Star Wars” Episode VI, where she was Nien Nunb, Lando Calrissian’s alien co-pilot. “It is sad to hear the death of a colleague. She was an advocate for actors with disabilities.”

Born on December 14, 1959, in San Jose, California,  Debbie Lee Carrington  suffered from dwarfism, a growth disorder, for which she measured 1.17 as an adult. She graduated with a degree in child psychology from the University of California-Davis in 1982.

Right after that he began to carve out a career in Hollywood. One of his first roles was Romba, one of the Ewoks, a species of furry bear native to the forest moon Endor, in  Return of the Jedi . He reprized in the television spin-offs  The Adventure of the Ewoks , and  The Fight for Endor .

Since then he has not stopped playing small roles, as he was, for example, a duck from the protagonist’s native planet, in  Howard… a new hero , also from the  George Lucas factory , an alien in a chapter of  Amazing Tales  and in  Men in Black (Men in Black) , a penguin in  Batman Returns , and is best remembered as Thumbelina, a corseted dwarf, one of the mutants helped  by Arnold Schwarzenegger  in  Total Recall . She remained active until a few months before her death, when she was preparing an action film titled  Escape from Paradise .

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