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Peter Dinklage

Acting
Known For

56 Years Old

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).

Born

Morristown, New Jersey, USA on 11th June 1969

All Credits

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Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Image
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
The Daily Show Image
The Daily Show
Self
Game of Thrones Image
Game of Thrones
Tyrion 'The Halfman' Lannister
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Rick and Morty
Chans (voice)
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Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self
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Marvel Studios Legends
Eitri the Dwarf (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Honest Trailers
Dean Casca Highbottom (archive footage)
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30 Rock
Stewart
Nip/Tuck Image
Nip/Tuck
Marlowe Sawyer
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Entourage
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MTV Movie & TV Awards
Self / Presenter
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Oz
Murder Victim (uncredited)
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Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
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Saturday Night Live
Self - Cameo (uncredited)
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Hot Ones
Self
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Avengers: Infinity War
Eitri
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Dexter: Resurrection
Leon Prater
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Wicked
Dr. Dillamond (voice)
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The $treet
Little Person
Threshold Image
Threshold
Arthur Ramsey
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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
Scourge (voice)
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How to Become a Tyrant
Narrator
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Third Watch
Drug Dealer
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X-Men: Days of Future Past
Dr. Bolivar Trask
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
James
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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
Dean Casca Highbottom
Ice Age: Continental Drift Image
Ice Age: Continental Drift
Captain Gutt (voice)
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I'm with Her
The Croods: A New Age Image
The Croods: A New Age
Phil Betterman (voice)
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How to Become a Mob Boss
Self - Narrator (voice)
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Pixels
Eddie
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Brothers
Jady Munger
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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Trumpkin
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Wicked: For Good
Doctor Dillamond (voice)
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The Angry Birds Movie
Mighty Eagle (voice)
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The Angry Birds Movie 2
Mighty Eagle (voice)
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How to Become a Cult Leader
Narrator (voice)
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Elf
Miles Finch
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The Thicket
Reginald Jones
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I Care a Lot
Roman Lunyov
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Death at a Funeral
Peter
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She Came to Me
Steven Lauddem
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The Station Agent
Finbar McBride
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Death at a Funeral
Frank
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Roofman
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Life As We Know It
Dr. Belber
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Underdog
Dr. Simon Barsinister
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Unfrosted
Harry Friendly
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The Toxic Avenger
Winston Gooze / The Toxic Avenger / Toxie (Voice)
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Penelope
Lemon
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Game of Thrones: The Last Watch
Self
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Dear Diary: World's First Pranks
Phil Betterman (voice)
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The Boss
Renault
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Find Me Guilty
Ben Klandis
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Defying Gravity: The Curtain Rises on Wicked
Self
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Cyrano
Cyrano de Bergerac
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A Little Bit of Heaven
Vinnie
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Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
Tyrion Lannister
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The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
Aaron Altmann
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Three Christs
Joseph
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Knights of Badassdom
Hung
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A Case of You
Gerard
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I Think We're Alone Now
Del
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Between Two Ferns: The Movie
Peter Dinklage
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Human Nature
Frank
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Rememory
Sam Bloom
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Living in Oblivion
Tito
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Pete Smalls Is Dead
K.C.
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Tiptoes
Maurice
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Lassie
Rowlie
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American Dreamer
Phil Loder
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Just a Kiss
Dink
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Bullet
Building Manager
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My Dinner with Hervé
Hervé Villechaize
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Low Down
Alain
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Taxi
Marc
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Lear Rex
The Fool
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The Last Rites of Ransom Pride
dwarf
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The Baxter
Benson Hedges
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I Love You Too
Charlie
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Good Bad & Undead
Van Helsing
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Safe Men
Leflore
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Wicker
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Never Again
Harry Appleton
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The Origins of Ebbing
Self
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Saint John of Las Vegas
Mr. Townsend
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Ultra
The Scientist
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Making Wicked
Self
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13 Moons
Binky
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Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX
Self
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Nobody Wants Your Film
Self
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Scrat's Continental Crack-Up: Part 2
Captain Gutt (voice)
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The Limbo Room
Dusty Spitz
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The David S. Pumpkins Halloween Special
Narrator / Adult Kevin (voice)
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Predator or Prey: Making The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
Self (Dean Casca Highbottom)
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Surviving Eden
Sterno
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Little Fugitive
Sam Norton
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The Dwarf
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Pigeonholed
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Ice Age Columbus: Who Were the First Americans?
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Keith
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Ascension Day
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Change, Not Charity: The Americans with Disabilities Act
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The Shitheads