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Peter Dinklage
Actor, ProducerBorn June 11, 1969 (55 years)
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).
Filmography
| 2025 | Wicked: For Good · as Dr. Dillamond |
| 2025 | |
| 2024 | Wicked · as Dr. Dillamond (voice) |
| 2024 | Brothers · as Jady Munger |
| 2024 | The Thicket · as Reginald Jones |
| 2024 | Unfrosted · as Harry Friendly |
| 2023 | The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes · as Dean Casca Highbottom |
| 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 (TV Series) · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2023 | Transformers: Rise of the Beasts · as Scourge (voice) |
| 2022 | American Dreamer · as Phil Loder |
| 2021 | How to Become a Tyrant (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 2021 | Cyrano · as Cyrano De Bergerac |
| 2021 | Dear Diary: World's First Pranks · as Phil Betterman (voice) |
| 2021 | Marvel Studios: Legends (TV Series) · as Eitri The Dwarf (archive Footage) (uncredited) |
| 2020 | I Care a Lot · as Roman Lunyov |
| 2020 | The Croods: A New Age · as Phil Betterman (voice) |
| 2019 | The Angry Birds Movie 2 · as Mighty Eagle (voice) |
| 2018 | My Dinner with Hervé · as Hervé Villechaize |
| 2018 | I Think We're Alone Now · as Del |
| 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 | |
| 2016 | The Angry Birds Movie · as Mighty Eagle (voice) |
| 2016 | The Boss · as Renault |
| 2015 | Taxi · as Marc |
| 2015 | Pixels · as Eddie |
| 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 | |
| 2013 | Rick and Morty (TV Series) · as Chans (voice) |
| 2013 | A Case of You · as Gerard |
| 2013 | Knights of Badassdom · as Hung |
| 2013 | Game of Thrones: Season 2 - Character Profiles · as Tyrion Lannister |
| 2012 | Ice Age: Continental Drift · as Captain Gutt (voice) |
| 2012 | Honest Trailers (TV Series) · as Dean Casca Highbottom (archive Footage) |
| 2012 | Game of Thrones: Season 2 - In Production: Croatia · as Tyrion Lannister |
| 2012 | Game of Thrones: Season 2 - How to Be an Extra · as Tyrion Lannister |
| 2011 | Scrat's Continental Crack-Up: Part 2 · as Captain Gutt (voice) |
| 2011 | Game of Thrones (TV Series) · as Tyrion 'the Halfman' Lannister |
| 2011 | A Little Bit of Heaven · as Vinnie |
| 2011 | Game of Thrones: Inside the Night's Watch · as Tyrion Lannister |
| 2011 | Game of Thrones: Costumes · as Tyrion Lannister |
| 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 |
| 2009 | Saint John of Las Vegas · as Mr. Townsend |
| 2008 | The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian · as Trumpkin |
| 2007 | Underdog · as Dr. Simon Barsinister |
| 2007 | Death at a Funeral · as Peter |
| 2007 | |
| 2006 | 30 Rock (TV Series) · as Stewart |
| 2006 | Ultra · as The Scientist |
| 2006 | Little Fugitive · as Sam Norton |
| 2006 | Find Me Guilty · as Ben Klandis |
| 2006 | |
| 2006 | The Limbo Room · as Dusty Spitz |
| 2005 | Fortunes · as Mike Kirkwood |
| 2005 | Lassie · as Rowlie |
| 2005 | The Real Family of Jesus (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 2005 | Threshold (TV Series) · as Arthur Ramsey |
| 2005 | The Baxter · as Benson Hedges |
| 2005 | Ice Age Columbus: Who Were the First Americans? · as Narrator |
| 2004 | Life As We Know It (TV Series) · as Dr. Belber |
| 2004 | Entourage (TV Series) |
| 2004 | Surviving Eden · as Sterno |
| 2003 | The Station Agent · as Finbar Mcbride |
| 2003 | Elf · as Miles Finch |
| 2003 | I'm With Her (TV Series) |
| 2003 | |
| 2002 | Tiptoes · as Maurice |
| 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 (TV Series) · as Little Person |
| 1999 | |
| 1999 | Third Watch (TV Series) · as Drug Dealer |
| 1998 | Safe Men · as Leflore |
| 1997 | Oz (TV Series) · as Murder Victim (uncredited) |
| 1996 | Bullet · as Building Manager |
| 1995 | The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special · as The Devil |
| 1995 | Living in Oblivion · as Tito |
| 1991 | Shadows and Fog · as Circus Performer |
| 1988 | P.O.V. (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 1969 | Sesame Street (TV Series) · as Simon |
| 1956 | As The World Turns (TV Series) · as Morlin |