1969-06-11 ( 55 years old ) in Morristown, New Jersey, USA
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).
Movies
Roofman
2025-10-02
The Toxic Avenger
2025-08-29
Wicked
2024-11-20
Defying Gravity: The Curtain Rises on Wicked
2024-11-16
Brothers
2024-10-10
The Thicket
2024-09-05
Unfrosted
2024-04-30
She Came to Me
2023-10-06
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
2023-06-06
American Dreamer
2022-11-04
Cyrano
2021-04-14
I Care a Lot
2021-02-19
Dear Diary: World's First Pranks
2021-02-09
The Croods: A New Age
2020-11-25
Between Two Ferns: The Movie
2019-09-20
The Angry Birds Movie 2
2019-08-02
Game of Thrones: The Last Watch
2019-05-26
My Dinner with Hervé
2018-10-20
I Think We're Alone Now
2018-09-14
The Origins of Ebbing
2018-06-25
Avengers: Infinity War
2018-04-25
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2017-12-01
The David S. Pumpkins Halloween Special
2017-10-28
Three Christs
2017-09-23
Rememory
2017-09-08
The Angry Birds Movie
2016-05-11
The Boss
2016-04-07
Taxi
2015-08-20
Pixels
2015-07-16
Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
2015-01-29
The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
2014-05-23
X-Men: Days of Future Past
2014-05-15
Low Down
2014-01-19
A Case of You
2013-11-06
Knights of Badassdom
2013-01-21
Ice Age: Continental Drift
2012-06-27
Scrat's Continental Crack-Up: Part 2
2011-11-16
A Little Bit of Heaven
2011-02-03
Pete Smalls Is Dead
2010-09-17
The Last Rites of Ransom Pride
2010-06-17
I Love You Too
2010-05-06
Death at a Funeral
2010-04-15
Saint John of Las Vegas
2010-01-29
Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX
2008-10-07
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
2008-05-15
Death at a Funeral
2007-08-17
Underdog
2007-08-03
Ascension Day
2007-02-02
Ultra
2006-09-01
Little Fugitive
2006-05-27
Find Me Guilty
2006-03-16
Penelope
2006-03-01
The Limbo Room
2006-01-23
Lassie
2005-12-16
The Baxter
2005-08-26
Nobody Wants Your Film
2005-05-06
Surviving Eden
2004-03-01
The Station Agent
2003-12-05
Elf
2003-11-07
Tiptoes
2002-12-17
13 Moons
2002-08-30
Just a Kiss
2002-06-15
Human Nature
2001-09-12
Never Again
2001-03-11
Pigeonholed
1999-09-28
Safe Men
1998-08-07
Bullet
1996-03-01
Living in Oblivion
1995-07-21
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