As with a lot of vertically challenged actors, realising that Deep Roy was in a film usually comes during the credits as the majority of his roles involve him wearing heavy prosthetics. Such as Droopy McCool (one of Jabba The Hutts resident musicians) in Return Of The Jedi and more recently as Starship Enterprise crewman Keenser in JJ Abrams Star Trek reboot. But a role that enabled him to take centre stage without prosthetics (and where youll most likely recognise him from) was as every single Oompa Loompa in Tim Burtons 2005 adaptation of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory Decades before Charlie And The Chocolate Factory though came the job of playing Mr Sin, a murderous cyborg used to do the bidding of fugitive war criminal Magnus Greel in the Fourth Doctor story The Talons Of Weng-Chiang (1977). While Mr Sin was deactivated by the Doctor after he got hold of a laser rifle and started killing everything in sight, Deep Roy returned to Doctor Who ten years later in an uncredited role as an alien delegate in the Sixth Doctor story Mindwarp (1987). Currently, it is unknown if Roy is working on any film or television roles but it does seem possible that Keenser could be featured in the next Star Trek film.
JG Moore is a writer and filmmaker from the south of England. He also works as an editor and VFX artist, and has a BA in Media Production from the University Of Winchester.
