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Peter Dinklage

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Peter Hayden Dinklage (born June 11, 1969) is an American actor. Portraying Tyrion Lannister on the HBO television series Game of Thrones (2011–2019), Dinklage won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series a record four times. He also received a Golden Globe Award in 2011 and a Screen Actors Guild Award in 2020 for the role.

Born in the Jersey Shore region of New Jersey, Dinklage studied acting at Bennington College, performing in a number of amateur stage productions. He made his film debut in the black comedy film Living in Oblivion (1995), and had his breakthrough with a starring role in the 2003 comedy-drama The Station Agent. His other films include Elf (2003), Lassie and The Baxter (both in 2005), Find Me Guilty (2006), Penelope (2006), Death at a Funeral (2007), The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008), Death at a Funeral (2010), X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023), and Wicked (2024). In 2018, he appeared as Eitri in the Marvel film Avengers: Infinity War, and as Hervé Villechaize in the biopic film My Dinner with Hervé. He also provided voice-acting for the video game Destiny, and in 2023, he voiced Scourge in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. On television, he also starred in the series Dexter: Resurrection in 2025.

Dinklage has also performed in theater, with roles including the title character in Richard III (2003) at the Public Theatre, Rakitin in A Month in the Country (2015) at Classic Stage Company, and Cyrano de Bergerac in Cyrano at the Daryl Roth Theatre in 2019. Description above is from the Wikipedia article Peter Dinklage.

Peter Dinklage

Biography

Films Featuring Peter Dinklage

The Station Agent

Death at a Funeral

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

Elf

Underdog

Penelope

Living in Oblivion

Find Me Guilty

Death at a Funeral

Lassie

Just a Kiss

Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX

Safe Men

A Little Bit of Heaven

The Last Rites of Ransom Pride

I Love You Too

American Dreamer

Pete Smalls Is Dead

Little Fugitive

Knights of Badassdom

Ice Age: Continental Drift

X-Men: Days of Future Past

The Angriest Man in Brooklyn

She Came to Me

The Limbo Room

A Case of You

Low Down

Pixels

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

The Angry Birds Movie

Never Again

Human Nature

Tiptoes

Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience

The Boss

Taxi

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

Bullet

Predator or Prey: Making The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

Unfrosted

Defying Gravity: The Curtain Rises on Wicked

The Thicket

Rememory

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

13 Moons

Ascension Day

Ice Age Columbus: Who Were the First Americans?

Three Christs

Lear Rex

I Think We're Alone Now

Scrat's Continental Crack-Up: Part 2

Nobody Wants Your Film

My Dinner with Hervé

Ultra

The David S. Pumpkins Halloween Special

Pigeonholed

Saint John of Las Vegas

Avengers: Infinity War

The Angry Birds Movie 2

The Dwarf

The Croods: A New Age

Game of Thrones: The Last Watch

The Origins of Ebbing

Brothers

I Care a Lot

Between Two Ferns: The Movie

Cyrano

Keith

The Baxter

The Toxic Avenger Unrated

Dear Diary: World's First Pranks

Surviving Eden

Roofman

Wicked

Idiots

Wicker

Change, Not Charity: The Americans with Disabilities Act