She is, but what's interesting is that it doesn't seem to matter.

Victoria Hamilton, who plays the forceful spy-manager (they never really give her an official title) Sarah Montag on the '70s-set spy thriller, is in fact five-foot-four in real life, shorter than average and definitely shorter than the Hollywood average. But the show makes no attempt to exaggerate her height.

A number of famous stars are actually shorter, but producers seem to take pains to hide it. Screen bombshells Scarlett Johansson (at five-foot-three) and Salma Hayek (five-foot-two), and sitcom star Amy Poehler (five-foot-two) are all shorter than Hamilton, but you'd never guess it to see them on screen.

It's possible that the latter three are all "leading ladies," and so their height needs to match their importance on screen, and that their attractiveness is a factor in their roles (though that's debatable for Poehler's sweetly earnest "Parks and Recreation" character).

It's also possible that British television is less obsessed with such matters. We also have the BBC to thank for such unlikely screen stars as Ricky Gervais and Martin Freeman (best known to U.S. audiences as the titular hobbit in the recent "The Hobbit" films).

"The Game's" audience is given plenty of time to wonder about its characters status and stature -- in keeping with the spy show's clandestine subject matter, nothing is spelled out. We are left to discover for ourselves that there's a power struggle within the MI-5 team for who will eventually replace Brian Cox's character (only referred to as Daddy, since even his name is a secret), and that Hamilton's Sarah is in the running.

Hamilton has done quite a bit of television and film in the U.K. and is likely recognizable to North American fans for her work in the Jane Austen adaptations "Mansfield Park" (1999), "Persuasion" (1995) and the beloved BBC miniseries version of "Pride and Prejudice" (also released in 1995).

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