<Tr> <Th> Years active </Th> <Td> 1976--present </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Home town </Th> <Td> Birmingham, England, UK </Td> </Tr> <P> Deep Roy (born Mohinder Purba; 1 December 1957), sometimes credited as Roy Deep, is a Kenyan - English actor, stuntman, puppeteer and comedian . Due to his diminutive size (stated by IMDB to be 4'4" or 132 cm), he has appeared in a number of similar - sized roles, such as the Oompa - Loompas in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Keenser in Star Trek and subsequent films ("Kelvin Timeline"), and in television series such as The X-Files, Doctor Who and Eastbound & Down . </P> <P> Roy was born in Nairobi, Kenya, to Indian parents . He made his professional screen acting debut in a 1976 episode of The New Avengers, titled "Target!" as a character named Klokoe . He would later make his film debut that same year, in The Pink Panther Strikes Again, as the Italian Assassin . Another early role was as Mr. Sin, the "pig - brained Peking Homunculus", a villain with a distinct appetite for homicide, in the Doctor Who serial The Talons of Weng - Chiang . In 1979, Roy also played a genetically engineered life form "Decima" in the first season Blake's 7 episode "The Web", as well as the diminutive chess genius, "The Klute", in the second season Blake's 7 episode "Gambit". </P>

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