Peter Dinklage

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

Finbar McBride

The Station Agent

Peter

Death at a Funeral

Trumpkin

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

Miles Finch

Elf

Dr. Simon Barsinister

Underdog

Lemon

Penelope

Tito

Living in Oblivion

Ben Klandis

Find Me Guilty

Frank

Death at a Funeral

Rowlie

Lassie

Dink

Just a Kiss

Leflore

Safe Men

Self

Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX

Vinnie

A Little Bit of Heaven

dwarf

The Last Rites of Ransom Pride

Charlie

I Love You Too

Phil Loder

American Dreamer

K.C.

Pete Smalls Is Dead

Sam Norton

Little Fugitive

Hung

Knights of Badassdom

Captain Gutt (voice)

Ice Age: Continental Drift

Dr. Bolivar Trask

X-Men: Days of Future Past

Aaron Altmann

The Angriest Man in Brooklyn

Steven Lauddem

She Came to Me

Dusty Spitz

The Limbo Room

Gerard

A Case of You

Alain

Low Down

Eddie

Pixels

Dean Casca Highbottom

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

Mighty Eagle (voice)

The Angry Birds Movie

Harry Appleton

Never Again

Frank

Human Nature

Maurice

Tiptoes

Tyrion Lannister

Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience

Renault

The Boss

Marc

Taxi

Scourge (voice)

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

Building Manager

Bullet

Self (Dean Casca Highbottom)

Predator or Prey: Making The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

Harry Friendly

Unfrosted

Self

Defying Gravity: The Curtain Rises on Wicked

Sam Bloom

Rememory

Reginald Jones

The Thicket

James

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Binky

13 Moons

Ascension Day

Narrator

Ice Age Columbus: Who Were the First Americans?

Joseph

Three Christs

The Fool

Lear Rex

Del

I Think We're Alone Now

Captain Gutt (voice)

Scrat's Continental Crack-Up: Part 2

Self

Nobody Wants Your Film

Hervé Villechaize

My Dinner with Hervé

The Scientist

Ultra

Narrator / Adult Kevin (voice)

The David S. Pumpkins Halloween Special

Pigeonholed

Mr. Townsend

Saint John of Las Vegas

Eitri

Avengers: Infinity War

Mighty Eagle (voice)

The Angry Birds Movie 2

The Dwarf

Phil Betterman (voice)

The Croods: A New Age

Self

Game of Thrones: The Last Watch

Self

The Origins of Ebbing

Jady Munger

Brothers

Roman Lunyov

I Care a Lot

Peter Dinklage

Between Two Ferns: The Movie

Van Helsing

Good Bad & Undead

Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano

Keith

Benson Hedges

The Baxter

Winston Gooze / Toxie (Voice)

The Toxic Avenger

Phil Betterman (voice)

Dear Diary: World's First Pranks

Sterno

Surviving Eden

Roofman

Dr. Dillamond (voice)

Wicked

The Shitheads

Wicker

Narrator

Change, Not Charity: The Americans with Disabilities Act

Self

Making Wicked

Doctor Dillamond (voice)

Wicked: For Good

Tyrion Lannister

Game of Thrones - Unaired Original Pilot