Indian actress Jyoti Kisange Amge gained fame for portraying Ma Petite in the fourth season of American Horror Story, though this isn't her only achievement. Among the many colorful characters in the 4th season of AHS, Ma Petite was impossible to miss. Unlike many of the other carnival performers, Jyoti Amge's Ma Petite required no prosthetic effects. Her stage act in Freak Show's traveling carnival focused on her size, and many viewers were instantly intrigued at whom the actor playing Ma Petite was, since she was clearly the same height as her character and an adult, rather than child, performer.

Ma Pettie was played by actress Jyoti Amge who, according to the Limca Book of Records and the Guinness Book of Records, is the world's smallest living woman. She was declared so on her 18th birthday in December of 2011, standing at a height of 2 feet and 0.6 inches (62.8 centimeters). Reportedly,...