Martin Klebba

Martin Klebba is an American actor, stunt performer, and Broadway performer born on June 23, 1969, in Troy, Michigan, where he attended Athens High School. He has acromicric dysplasia, a form of dwarfism, and stands 4 feet 1 inch tall. In 1998, Klebba appeared on Broadway in the musical The Wizard of Oz. He also runs the Coalition for Dwarf Advocacy, a nonprofit foundation that directs 100% of its donations toward supporting people with dwarfism.

Klebba's screen career began with a cameo in Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes in 2001. He became widely recognized for portraying Marty, a dwarf pirate in Jack Sparrow's crew, across the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. The character was originally written under the name Dirk before being renamed after Klebba, a change attributed possibly to director Gore Verbinski. Klebba first played the role in The Curse of the Black Pearl and returned for Dead Man's Chest, At World's End, and Dead Men Tell No Tales. Among his other film appearances, he played the ring announcer in Cradle 2 the Grave in 2003 and portrayed Count Le Petite in the 2009 romantic comedy All's Faire in Love. He appeared as Thunder in both Feast II: Sloppy Seconds and Feast III: The Happy Finish. His stunt credits span productions including Hancock, Zombieland, Bedtime Stories, Evan Almighty, Meet the Spartans, Epic Movie, and Van Helsing. For Jurassic World, he wore motion capture pajamas to portray the Dimorphodon in its confrontation with Owen Grady.

On television, Klebba played Friday, one of the seven dwarfs, in the 2001 television film Snow White: The Fairest of Them All, and starred as Hank Dingo in the 2003 Comedy Central film Knee High P.I. He made a recurring appearance as Randall Winston in Scrubs and guest starred in episodes of Charmed, iCarly, Drake & Josh, Bones, Pair of Kings, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and CSI: NY. In 2011, he joined The Cape as a series regular, playing a character named Rollo. He appeared as one of the seven dwarfs again in the 2012 film Mirror Mirror, and in 2025 provided both voice and facial capture for Grumpy in the remake of Snow White. Klebba has also been featured on the TLC reality series Little People, Big World and appeared with his wife in an episode of VH-1's I'm Married to a.... Earlier in his career, he was an occasional guest on The Howard Stern Show during the 1990s and early 2000s. He also appears in the music video for the Seether song Truth, portraying the New Year Baby.