Peter Dinklage
Peter Dinklage

Peter Dinklage

Jun 11, 1969 (56 years old)

Overview

Gender
Male
Birthday
Jun 11, 1969

Biography

Peter Dinklage is an American actor. Since his breakout role in The Station Agent (2003), he has appeared in numerous films and theatre plays. Since 2011, Dinklage has portrayed Tyrion Lannister in the HBO series Game of Thrones. For this he won an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries or Television Film in 2011. Peter Hayden Dinklage was born in Morristown, New Jersey, to Diane (Hayden), an elementary school teacher, and John Carl Dinklage, an insurance salesman. He is of German, Irish, and English descent. In 1991, he received a degree in drama from Bennington College and began his career. His exquisite theatre work that expresses brilliantly the unique range of his acting qualities, includes remarkable performances full of profoundness, charisma, intelligence, sensation and insights in plays such as "The Killing Act", "Imperfect Love", Ivan Turgenev's "A Month in the Country" as well as the title roles in William Shakespeare's "Richard III" and in Anton Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya". Peter Dinklage received acclaim for his first film, Living in Oblivion (1995), where he played an actor frustrated with the limited and caricatured roles offered to actors who have dwarfism. In 2003, he starred in The Station Agent (2003), written and directed by Tom McCarthy. The movie received critical praise as well as Peter Dinklage's work including nominations such as for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role at the "Screen Actors Guild" and Best Male Lead at the "Film Independent Spirit Awards". One of his next roles has been the one of Miles Finch, an acclaimed children's book author, in Elf (2003). Sob Suspeita (2006), the original English Death at a Funeral (2007), its American remake Death at a Funeral (2010), Penelope (2006), The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) and X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) are also included in his brilliant work concerning feature films. His fine work in television also includes shows such as Entourage (2004), Life as We Know It (2004), Threshold (2005) and Nip/Tuck (2003). In 2011, the primary role of Tyrion Lannister, a man of sharp wit and bright spirit, in Game of Thrones (2011), was incarnated with unique greatness in Dinklage's unparalleled performance. The series is an adaptation of author George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, and his work has received widespread praise, highlighted by his receiving the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series at The 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards (2011), The 67th Primetime Emmy Awards (2015) and The 70th Primetime Emmy Awards (2018), as well as The 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards (2012) for Best Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries or Television Film. In 2012, Dinklage voiced Captain Gutt in Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012). In 2014, he starred in the comedy horror film Knights of Badassdom (2013) and portrayed Bolivar Trask in the superhero film X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014). In 2016, Dinklage provided the voice of The Mighty Eagle in The Angry Birds Movie (2016).

Known For

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Acting

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Roofman
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The Toxic Avenger
Movie
2025
Dexter: Resurrection
Tv
2025
Change, Not Charity: The Americans with Disabilities Act
Movie
2024
Making Wicked
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2024
Wicked
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2024
Defying Gravity: The Curtain Rises on Wicked
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2024
Brothers
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2024
The Thicket
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2024
Unfrosted
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2024
Predator or Prey: Making The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
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2023
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
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2023
How to Become a Mob Boss
Tv
2023
She Came to Me
Movie
2023
How to Become a Cult Leader
Tv
2023
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
Movie
2022
American Dreamer
Movie
2021
How to Become a Tyrant
Tv
2021
Cyrano
Movie
2021
I Care a Lot
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2021
Dear Diary: World's First Pranks
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2020
The Croods: A New Age
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2019
Between Two Ferns: The Movie
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2019
The Angry Birds Movie 2
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2019
Game of Thrones: The Last Watch
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2018
My Dinner with Hervé
Movie
2018
I Think We're Alone Now
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2018
Avengers: Infinity War
Movie
2017
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Movie
2017
The David S. Pumpkins Halloween Special
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2017
Three Christs
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2017
Rememory
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2016
The Boss
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2015
Taxi
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2014
The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
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2013
A Case of You
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2010
Pete Smalls Is Dead
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2010
The Last Rites of Ransom Pride
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2010
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2010
Saint John of Las Vegas
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2008
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
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2007
Death at a Funeral
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2007
Ascension Day
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2006
Ultra
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2006
Little Fugitive
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2006
Find Me Guilty
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2006
The Limbo Room
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2005
Threshold
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2005
Ice Age Columbus: Who Were the First Americans?
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2004
Surviving Eden
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2003
The Station Agent
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2003
Elf
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2002
Tiptoes
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1999
Pigeonholed
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Safe Men
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1996
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