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).
Filmography
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Movies 76
TV Shows 23
self 12
Narrator 5
Voice 4
Unfrosted (2024)
Predator or Prey: Making The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2024)
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023)
How to Become a Mob Boss (2023)
She Came to Me (2023)
The Toxic Avenger (2023)
How to Become a Cult Leader (2023)
Rumpelstiltskin (2023)
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023)
American Dreamer (2022)
Cyrano (2021)
How to Become a Tyrant (2021)
I Care a Lot (2021)
Dear Diary: World's First Pranks (2021)
Marvel Studios Legends (2021)
The Croods: A New Age (2020)
Between Two Ferns: The Movie (2019)
The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019)
Game of Thrones: The Last Watch (2019)
My Dinner with Hervé (2018)
I Think We're Alone Now (2018)
The Origins of Ebbing (2018)
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
The David S. Pumpkins Halloween Special (2017)
Three Christs (2017)
Rememory (2017)
Our Life (2017)
The Angry Birds Movie (2016)
The Boss (2016)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015)
Taxi (2015)
Pixels (2015)
Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience (2015)
The Angriest Man in Brooklyn (2014)
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014)
Low Down (2014)
Rick and Morty (2013)
A Case of You (2013)
Knights of Badassdom (2013)
Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012)
Honest Trailers (2012)
Scrat's Continental Crack-Up: Part 2 (2011)
Game of Thrones (2011)
A Little Bit of Heaven (2011)
Pete Smalls Is Dead (2010)
The Last Rites of Ransom Pride (2010)
I Love You Too (2010)
Death at a Funeral (2010)
Saint John of Las Vegas (2010)
Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX (2008)
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)
Death at a Funeral (2007)
Underdog (2007)
Ascension Day (2007)
30 Rock (2006)
Ultra (2006)
Little Fugitive (2006)
Find Me Guilty (2006)
Penelope (2006)
The Limbo Room (2006)
Lassie (2005)
Threshold (2005)
The Baxter (2005)
Nobody Wants Your Film (2005)
Freedom Machines (2004)
Life As We Know It (2004)
Entourage (2004)
Surviving Eden (2004)
The Station Agent (2003)
Elf (2003)
I'm with Her (2003)
Tiptoes (2003)
Nip/Tuck (2003)
13 Moons (2002)
Just a Kiss (2002)
Human Nature (2001)
Never Again (2001)
The $treet (2000)
Pigeonholed (1999)
Third Watch (1999)
Safe Men (1998)
Oz (1997)
The Daily Show (1996)
Bullet (1996)
Living in Oblivion (1995)
MTV Movie & TV Awards (1992)
POV (1988)
Saturday Night Live (1975)
Keith
Inside Narnia: The Adventure Returns
Brothers
Ultra
Escape Artists
The Dwarf
The Wild Bunch
The Thicket
Good Bad & Undead
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GenderMale
Birthday1969-06-11 (54 years old)
Birth NamePeter Hayden Dinklage
Birth PlaceMorristown, United States of America
LifestyleVegetarianism
Height135-centimeter
SpouseErica Schmidt
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known As彼特·丁拉基, Питер Динклэйдж, ピーター・ディンクレイジ, 피터 딘클리지, بيتر دينكلاج, Πίτερ Ντίνκλατζ
AwardsBroadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, Empire Hero Award, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
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