
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).
Acting (74 movies)

The Station Agent
2003

Death at a Funeral
2007

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
2008

Elf
2003

Underdog
2007

Penelope
2006

Living in Oblivion
1995

Find Me Guilty
2006

Death at a Funeral
2010

Lassie
2005

Just a Kiss
2002

Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX
2008

Safe Men
1998

A Little Bit of Heaven
2011

The Last Rites of Ransom Pride
2010

I Love You Too
2010

American Dreamer
2022

Pete Smalls Is Dead
2010

Knights of Badassdom
2013

Ice Age: Continental Drift
2012

X-Men: Days of Future Past
2014

The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
2014

She Came to Me
2023

The Limbo Room
2006

A Case of You
2013

Low Down
2014

Pixels
2015

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
2023

The Angry Birds Movie
2016

Never Again
2001

Human Nature
2001

Tiptoes
2002

Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
2015

The Boss
2016

Taxi
2015

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
2023

Bullet
1996

Predator or Prey: Making The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
2024

Unfrosted
2024

Defying Gravity: The Curtain Rises on Wicked
2024

The Thicket
2024

Rememory
2017

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2017

13 Moons
2002

Ascension Day
2007

Ice Age Columbus: Who Were the First Americans?
2005

Three Christs
2017

I Think We're Alone Now
2018

Scrat's Continental Crack-Up: Part 2
2011

Nobody Wants Your Film
2005

My Dinner with Hervé
2018

Ultra
2006

The David S. Pumpkins Halloween Special
2017

Pigeonholed
1999

Saint John of Las Vegas
2010

Avengers: Infinity War
2018

The Angry Birds Movie 2
2019

The Croods: A New Age
2020

Game of Thrones: The Last Watch
2019

The Origins of Ebbing
2018

Brothers
2024

I Care a Lot
2021

Between Two Ferns: The Movie
2019

Cyrano
2021

The Baxter
2005

The Toxic Avenger Unrated
2025

Dear Diary: World's First Pranks
2021

Surviving Eden
2004

Roofman
2025

Wicked
2024

Change, Not Charity: The Americans with Disabilities Act
2025

Making Wicked
2024

Wicked: For Good
2025

Fortunes
2005
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Pete Smalls Is Dead | 2010 | Producer |
| Knights of Badassdom | 2013 | Executive Producer |
| I Think We're Alone Now | 2018 | Producer |
| My Dinner with Hervé | 2018 | Executive Producer |
| American Dreamer | 2022 | Producer |
| The Thicket | 2024 | Producer |
| Brothers | 2024 | Producer |