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Samantha Sloyan vs Kate Siegel: Height, Weight, and Body Stats Compared

Samantha Sloyan vs Kate Siegel: How Do They Compare?

If you’ve binged everything Mike Flanagan has made for Netflix, you know these two faces. Samantha Sloyan and Kate Siegel are the closest thing the so-called Flanaverse has to a repertory company’s leading women — both showed up in Hush, both in The Haunting of Hill House, both in Midnight Mass, both in The Fall of the House of Usher. Fans constantly search them side by side, partly to sort out who played who, partly because they’re similar types: tall-ish, dark-featured or ash-blonde depending on the role, and physically restrained performers who do a lot with stillness.

Here’s how the two actually stack up on paper.

Image: Gabriel Hutchinson / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Side-by-Side Stats

Stat	Samantha Sloyan	Kate Siegel
Height	5 ft 8 in (173 cm)	5 ft 7 in (170 cm)
Weight	Approx. 128 lbs (58 kg)	Approx. 123 lbs (56 kg)
Age	46	43
Date of Birth	May 21, 1979	August 9, 1982
Build	Slim, long-limbed	Slim, athletic
Eye Color	Blue	Dark brown
Hair Color	Blonde	Dark brown
Net Worth (est.)	~$1.5 million	~$3 million

Weight and net worth figures are estimates, as neither actress has publicly confirmed numbers.

Height Comparison

Put them next to each other and you’re looking at about an inch of difference — Sloyan edges it at about 5 ft 8, Siegel sits around 5 ft 7. In heels on a red carpet, that gap basically disappears. Both are comfortably above the U.S. female average of about 5 ft 4, which is part of why they read so well in Flanagan’s wide, static frames. He shoots a lot of full-body blocking and long takes, and tall actors hold the center of a shot.

The visual difference between them has more to do with coloring and posture than inches. Siegel is dark-haired, dark-eyed, and tends to carry herself tight and compact on screen — think Theodora Crain’s arms-crossed defensiveness in Hill House. Sloyan is fair, blue-eyed, and uses her length: Bev Keane in Midnight Mass stands ramrod straight with her chin up, and that rigid posture is half the character.

Image: Gabriel Hutchinson / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Career Comparison

Siegel’s résumé is tied to Flanagan’s more tightly — they met on Oculus (2013), married in 2016, and she’s been in nearly everything he’s made since. She co-wrote Hush (2016) with him and carried the whole film as Maddie Young, a deaf writer who barely speaks a line of dialogue for 80 minutes. After that came Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016), Gerald’s Game (2017), Theodora Crain in The Haunting of Hill House (2018), Viola Lloyd in The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020), Erin Greene in Midnight Mass (2021), and Camille L’Espanaye in The Fall of the House of Usher (2023). She also starred in Netflix’s Hypnotic (2021), one of the few genre leads she’s taken outside her husband’s orbit.

Sloyan built a longer television career before the horror run. She played Jeannine Locke on Scandal and Dr. Penny Blake on Grey’s Anatomy — the doctor fans still haven’t forgiven — plus guest spots across network procedurals. Her Flanagan work started with a supporting role in Hush, grew into Leigh Crain in Hill House, then blew up with Bev Keane in Midnight Mass, arguably the most hated character in modern streaming horror. She followed it with Tamerlane Usher in The Fall of the House of Usher.

Short version: Siegel’s been the lead more often, Sloyan’s been the scene-stealer.

Fitness and Body Approach

Neither one has built a fitness brand, sold a program, or done a magazine cover shoot about their abs — which, honestly, is refreshing. Both keep lean, naturally slim frames without the gym-sculpted look you see on superhero-adjacent actors.

Siegel has been open about the physical grind of her roles instead. Hush required months of learning American Sign Language and a punishing amount of physical work — crawling, running, fighting, much of it in long unbroken takes on a tight indie schedule. Bly Manor‘s Lady in the Lake meant hours in heavy period costume and prosthetics. She’s also had two children with Flanagan and has talked publicly about working while pregnant and bouncing between sets and parenting, which tends to dictate the shape of anyone’s workout routine more than a trainer does.

Sloyan’s approach looks similarly low-key. Her build is slim and long rather than muscular, and the characters she plays lean on stillness and control instead of stunts. For Midnight Mass, the physical transformation was mostly about costume and carriage — the cardigans, the flat shoes, the posture of a woman who thinks she’s the most righteous person in the room.

Both work largely in Vancouver and Los Angeles on long shoot schedules, which means the realistic version of their fitness is walking, bodyweight stuff in hotel rooms, and whatever the day’s call sheet demands.

Key Differences

Height: Sloyan is about an inch taller at 5 ft 8 versus Siegel’s 5 ft 7.
Age: Sloyan is about three years older, born in May 1979 to Siegel’s August 1982.
Coloring: Blonde and blue-eyed versus dark brown hair and brown eyes — the fastest way to tell them apart in a cast photo.
Career path: Sloyan came up through network TV (Scandal, Grey’s Anatomy); Siegel came up through indie horror.
Writing credits: Siegel co-wrote Hush; Sloyan has stuck to acting.
Role type: Siegel usually plays the emotional center; Sloyan usually plays the antagonist you love to hate.
Net worth: Siegel’s estimated figure sits about double Sloyan’s, helped by lead roles and screenwriting.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who is taller, Samantha Sloyan or Kate Siegel?

Samantha Sloyan is taller, standing at about 5 ft 8 in (173 cm) compared with Kate Siegel at roughly 5 ft 7 in (170 cm).

What is the height difference between Samantha Sloyan and Kate Siegel?

The gap is about one inch (roughly 3 cm), which largely disappears when both wear heels on a red carpet.

Who is older, Samantha Sloyan or Kate Siegel?

Samantha Sloyan is older. She was born May 21, 1979 (age 46), while Kate Siegel was born August 9, 1982 (age 43).

Who weighs more, Samantha Sloyan or Kate Siegel?

Samantha Sloyan is estimated at about 128 lbs (58 kg) and Kate Siegel at around 123 lbs (56 kg), a difference of roughly 5 lbs. Both figures are estimates.