Peter Dinklage
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
Credits
- 2024 · Defying Gravity: The Curtain Rises on Wicked as Self
- 2024 · Wicked as Doctor Dillamond (voice)
- 2024 · Brothers as Jady
- 2024 · The Thicket as Reginald Jones
- 2024 · Unfrosted as Harry Friendly
- 2024 · Predator or Prey: Making The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes as Self (Dean Casca Highbottom)
- 2023 · The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes as Dean Casca Highbottom
- 2023 · How to Become a Mob Boss as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2023 · She Came to Me as Steven Lauddem
- 2023 · The Toxic Avenger as Winston Gooze / The Toxic Avenger
- 2023 · How to Become a Cult Leader as Narrator (voice)
- 2023 · Transformers: Rise of the Beasts as Scourge (voice)
- 2022 · American Dreamer as Phil Loder
- 2021 · Cyrano as Cyrano de Bergerac
- 2021 · How to Become a Tyrant as Narrator
- 2021 · I Care a Lot as Roman Lunyov
- 2021 · Dear Diary: World's First Pranks as Phil Betterman (voice)
- 2021 · Marvel Studios Legends as Eitri the Dwarf (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2020 · The Croods: A New Age as Phil Betterman (voice)
- 2019 · Between Two Ferns: The Movie as Peter Dinklage
- 2019 · The Angry Birds Movie 2 as Mighty Eagle (voice)
- 2019 · Game of Thrones: The Last Watch as Self
- 2018 · My Dinner with Hervé as Hervé Villechaize
- 2018 · I Think We're Alone Now as Del
- 2018 · The Origins of Ebbing as Self
- 2018 · Avengers: Infinity War as Eitri
- 2017 · Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri as James
- 2017 · The David S. Pumpkins Halloween Special as Narrator/Adult Kevin (voice)
- 2017 · Three Christs as Joseph
- 2017 · Rememory as Sam Bloom
- 2016 · The Angry Birds Movie as Mighty Eagle (voice)
- 2016 · The Boss as Renault
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- 2015 · Taxi as Marc
- 2015 · Pixels as Eddie
- 2015 · Coldplay's Game of Thrones: The Musical as Peter Dinklage
- 2015 · Hot Ones as Self
- 2015 · Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience as Tyrion Lannister
- 2014 · The Angriest Man in Brooklyn as Aaron Altmann
- 2014 · X-Men: Days of Future Past as Dr. Bolivar Trask
- 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- 2014 · Low Down as Alain
- 2013 · Rick and Morty as Chans (voice)
- 2013 · A Case of You as Gerard
- 2013 · Knights of Badassdom as Hung
- 2012 · Ice Age: Continental Drift as Captain Gutt (voice)
- 2012 · Honest Trailers as Dean Casca Highbottom (archive footage)
- 2011 · Scrat's Continental Crack-Up: Part 2 as Captain Gutt (voice)
- 2011 · Game of Thrones as Tyrion 'The Halfman' Lannister
- 2011 · A Little Bit of Heaven as Vinnie
- 2010 · Pete Smalls Is Dead as K.C.
- 2010 · The Last Rites of Ransom Pride as dwarf
- 2010 · I Love You Too as Charlie
- 2010 · Death at a Funeral as Frank
- 2010 · Saint John of Las Vegas as Mr. Townsend
- 2008 · Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX as Self
- 2008 · The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian as Trumpkin
- 2007 · Death at a Funeral as Peter
- 2007 · Underdog as Dr. Simon Barsinister
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2007 · Ascension Day as
- 2006 · 30 Rock as Stewart
- 2006 · Ultra as The Scientist
- 2006 · Little Fugitive as Sam Norton
- 2006 · Find Me Guilty as Ben Klandis
- 2006 · Penelope as Lemon
- 2006 · The Limbo Room as Dusty Spitz
- 2005 · Lassie as Rowlie
- 2005 · Threshold as Arthur Ramsey
- 2005 · The Baxter as Benson Hedges
- 2005 · Nobody Wants Your Film as Self
- 2005 · Ice Age Columbus: Who Were the First Americans? as Narrator
- 2004 · Life As We Know It as Dr. Belber
- 2004 · Entourage as
- 2004 · Surviving Eden as Sterno
- 2003 · The Station Agent as Finbar McBride
- 2003 · Elf as Miles Finch
- 2003 · I'm with Her as
- 2003 · Tiptoes as Maurice
- 2003 · Nip/Tuck as
- 2003 · Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
- 2002 · 13 Moons as Binky
- 2002 · Just a Kiss as Dink
- 2001 · Human Nature as Frank
- 2001 · Never Again as Harry Appleton
- 2000 · The $treet as Little Person
- 1999 · Pigeonholed as
- 1999 · Third Watch as Drug Dealer
- 1998 · Safe Men as Leflore
- 1997 · Oz as Murder Victim (uncredited)
- 1996 · The Daily Show as Self
- 1996 · Bullet as Building Manager
- 1995 · Living in Oblivion as Tito
- 1992 · MTV Movie & TV Awards as Self / Presenter
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
- 2024 · Lear Rex as The Fool
- 2024 · The Dwarf as
- 2024 · Good Bad & Undead as Van Helsing
- 2024 · Keith as