1969-06-11 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).
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The Toxic Avenger | Winston Gooze / The Toxic Avenger/ Toxie (Voice) | 2025-08-29 |
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Roofman | 2025-10-02 | |
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Change, Not Charity: The Americans with Disabilities Act | Narrator | 2025-03-25 |
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Defying Gravity: The Curtain Rises on Wicked | Self | 2024-11-16 |
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The Thicket | Reginald Jones | 2024-09-05 |
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Brothers | Jady Munger | 2024-10-10 |
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Wicked | Dr. Dillamond (voice) | 2024-11-20 |
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Predator or Prey: Making The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes | Self (Dean Casca Highbottom) | 2024-02-13 |
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Unfrosted | Harry Friendly | 2024-04-30 |
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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes | Dean Casca Highbottom | 2023-11-15 |
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She Came to Me | Steven Lauddem | 2023-10-06 |
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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts | Scourge (voice) | 2023-06-06 |
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American Dreamer | Phil Loder | 2022-11-04 |
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Dear Diary: World's First Pranks | Phil Betterman (voice) | 2021-02-09 |
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I Care a Lot | Roman Lunyov | 2021-02-19 |
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Cyrano | Cyrano de Bergerac | 2021-04-14 |
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The Croods: A New Age | Phil Betterman (voice) | 2020-11-25 |
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Game of Thrones: The Last Watch | Self | 2019-05-26 |
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Between Two Ferns: The Movie | Peter Dinklage | 2019-09-20 |
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The Angry Birds Movie 2 | Mighty Eagle (voice) | 2019-08-02 |
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The Origins of Ebbing | Self | 2018-06-25 |
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I Think We're Alone Now | Del | 2018-09-14 |
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My Dinner with Hervé | Hervé Villechaize | 2018-10-20 |
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Avengers: Infinity War | Eitri | 2018-04-25 |
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Rememory | Sam Bloom | 2017-09-08 |
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Three Christs | Joseph | 2017-09-23 |
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The David S. Pumpkins Halloween Special | Narrator / Adult Kevin (voice) | 2017-10-28 |
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | James | 2017-12-01 |
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The Boss | Renault | 2016-04-07 |
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The Angry Birds Movie | Mighty Eagle (voice) | 2016-05-11 |
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Pixels | Eddie | 2015-07-16 |
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Taxi | Marc | 2015-08-20 |
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Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience | Tyrion Lannister | 2015-01-29 |
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X-Men: Days of Future Past | Dr. Bolivar Trask | 2014-05-15 |
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Low Down | Alain | 2014-01-19 |
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The Angriest Man in Brooklyn | Aaron Altmann | 2014-05-23 |
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A Case of You | Gerard | 2013-11-06 |
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Knights of Badassdom | Hung | 2013-01-21 |
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Ice Age: Continental Drift | Captain Gutt (voice) | 2012-06-27 |
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Scrat's Continental Crack-Up: Part 2 | Captain Gutt (voice) | 2011-11-16 |
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A Little Bit of Heaven | Vinnie | 2011-02-03 |
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Saint John of Las Vegas | Mr. Townsend | 2010-01-29 |
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The Last Rites of Ransom Pride | dwarf | 2010-06-17 |
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Pete Smalls Is Dead | K.C. | 2010-09-17 |
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I Love You Too | Charlie | 2010-05-06 |
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Death at a Funeral | Frank | 2010-04-15 |
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Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX | Self | 2008-10-07 |
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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian | Trumpkin | 2008-05-15 |
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Death at a Funeral | Peter | 2007-08-17 |
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Ascension Day | 2007-02-02 | |
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Underdog | Dr. Simon Barsinister | 2007-08-03 |
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Penelope | Lemon | 2006-03-01 |
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Little Fugitive | Sam Norton | 2006-05-27 |
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Ultra | The Scientist | 2006-09-01 |
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Find Me Guilty | Ben Klandis | 2006-03-16 |
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The Limbo Room | Dusty Spitz | 2006-01-23 |
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Nobody Wants Your Film | Self | 2005-05-06 |
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Lassie | Rowlie | 2005-12-16 |
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The Baxter | Benson Hedges | 2005-08-26 |
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Ice Age Columbus: Who Were the First Americans? | Narrator | 2005-01-01 |
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Surviving Eden | Sterno | 2004-03-01 |
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Elf | Miles Finch | 2003-11-07 |
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The Station Agent | Finbar McBride | 2003-12-05 |
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Just a Kiss | Dink | 2002-06-15 |
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Tiptoes | Maurice | 2002-12-17 |
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13 Moons | Binky | 2002-08-30 |
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Never Again | Harry Appleton | 2001-03-11 |
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Human Nature | Frank | 2001-09-12 |
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Pigeonholed | 1999-09-28 | |
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Safe Men | Leflore | 1998-08-07 |
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Bullet | Building Manager | 1996-03-01 |
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Living in Oblivion | Tito | 1995-07-21 |
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Wicker | ||
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The Shitheads | ||
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Making Wicked | Himself | |
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Good Bad & Undead | Van Helsing | |
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Lear Rex | The Fool | |
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The Dwarf | ||
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