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).
Peter Dinklage Biography / Wiki
Name | Peter Dinklage |
Also Know | 彼特·ä¸æ‹‰åŸº, Питер ДинклÑйдж, ピーター・ディンクレイジ, 피터 딘í´ë¦¬ì§€, بيتر دينكلاج, Î Î¯Ï„ÎµÏ Îτίνκλατζ |
Gender | Male |
Known For | Acting |
Place of Birth | Morristown, New Jersey, USA |
Date of Birth | 1969-06-11 |
Age(as in 2022) | 53 |
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Peter Dinklage Acting Movies
Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
The Station Agent | Finbar McBride | 2003-01-26 | When his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a w… |
Pete Smalls Is Dead | K.C. | 2010-09-17 | Two old pals attend an old friends funeral and find there is more to his death than him being dead…. |
Knights of Badassdom | Hung | 2013-01-21 | Three best friends and dedicated roleplayers take to the woods to reenact a dungeons and dragons-like scenario as a live action role-playing game. Tro… |
The Thicket | Shorty | Orphan Jack Parker enlists the help of a bounty hunter and others to rescue his kidnapped sister in turn of the century Texas…. | |
Rememory | Sam Bloom | 2017-09-08 | The widow of a wise professor stumbles upon one of his inventions that’s able to record and play a person’s memory…. |
I Think We’re Alone Now | Del | 2018-09-14 | After the human race has been wiped out, Del lives in an empty town, content in his solitude and the utopia he has methodically created for himself, u… |
Our Life | Chad Johnson | 2017-06-12 | In his imagination, his favorite character, Chad Johnson, a fictional television detective, acts as Anton’s spiritual guide, confused about his life c… |
The Dwarf | A Machiavellian dwarf in a medieval Italian court brings the kingdom to the brink of ruin by manipulating the prince he serves…. | ||
Brothers | Jady | Plot kept under wraps…. | |
Good Bad & Undead | Van Helsing | Van Helsing, last in a long line of vampire hunters. He develops an uneasy partnership with a Vampire who has taken a vow never to kill again. Togethe… | |
Cyrano | Cyrano de Bergerac | 2021-12-17 | A man ahead of his time, Cyrano de Bergerac dazzles whether with ferocious wordplay at a verbal joust or with brilliant swordplay in a duel. But, conv… |
Keith | Plot kept under wraps… | ||
Hitpig | Hitpig (voice) | Set in a futuristic world, the film follows a grizzled porcine bounty hunter who accepts his next hit: Pickles, a naive, ebullient elephant who has es… | |
The Toxic Avenger | Toxie | After a terminally-ill janitor attempts to rob the company he works for, following his greedy employer’s refusal to pay for his treatment, he falls in… | |
American Dreamer | Dr. Phil Loder | 2022-06-11 | In this winsome comedy, an entitled Economics professor pursues a tactic to buy an ailing widow’s mansion for nothing, but he quickly realizes that … |
She Came to Me | Steven | A composer suffer writer’s block and rediscovers his passion after an adventurous one-night stand…. | |
Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience | Tyrion Lannister | 2015-01-29 | The first episode of this IMAX screening takes place entirely at The Wall with the Night’s Watch hopelessly outnumbered as they attempt to defend Ca… |
Taxi | Marc | 2015-08-20 | Hamburg, mid 80s, Alex is a cabby. The sound is hard, pubs are dark and loud, people constantly argue about anything and everything, people smoke all … |
Three Christs | Joseph | 2017-09-23 | Dr. Alan Stone breaks new ground for treatment of the mentally ill through an experiment on three paranoid schizophrenic patients who believe they are… |
X-Men: Unguarded | Self | 2015-07-14 | The film’s all-star ensemble cast joins director Bryan Singer and screenwriter Simon Kinberg to share their favorite stories from the set…. |
Scrat’s Continental Crack-Up: Part 2 | Captain Gutt (voice) | 2011-11-16 | This short film continues the adventures of the title character as he tries to retrieve his elusive acorn…. |
My Dinner with Hervé | Hervé Villechaize | 2018-10-20 | An unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor Hervé Villechaize, the world’s most famous gun-tot… |
The David S. Pumpkins Halloween Special | Narrator/Adult Kevin (voice) | 2017-10-28 | Set in a small suburban town on All Hallows’ Eve, the special centers on David Pumpkins and his skeleton sidekicks who show a young boy and his sister… |
I Care a Lot | Roman Lunyov | 2021-02-19 | A court-appointed legal guardian defrauds her older clients and traps them under her care. But her latest mark comes with some unexpected baggage…. |
I Love You Too | Charlie | 2010-05-06 | Written by comedian Peter Helliar, I LOVE YOU TOO stars Brendan Cowell as Jim, a 30-something emotionally stunted man whose inability to declare his l… |
The Angriest Man in Brooklyn | Aaron Altmann | 2014-05-23 | After learning that a brain aneurysm will kill him in about 90 minutes, a perpetually unhappy man struggles to come to terms with his fate and make am… |
Nobody Wants Your Film | 2005-05-06 | Director Peter Judson’s semifictitious tale opens a revealing window into the indie filmmaking process, capturing the trivialities, aggravations and e… | |
The Boss | Renault | 2016-04-07 | A titan of industry is sent to prison after she’s caught for insider trading. When she emerges ready to rebrand herself as America’s latest sweetheart… |
The Wild Bunch | A gang of American bandits try to elude bounty hunters during the waning days of the wild West. A remake of the 1969 film directed by Sam Peckinpah…. | ||
Find Me Guilty | Ben Klandis | 2006-03-16 | Based on the true story of Jack DiNorscio, a mobster who defended himself in court for what would be the longest mafia trial in U.S. history…. |
Lassie | Rowlie | 2005-12-16 | A family in financial crisis is forced to sell Lassie, their beloved dog. Hundreds of miles away from her true family, Lassie escapes and sets out on … |
Little Fugitive | Sam Norton | 2006-05-27 | Set in present day Brooklyn, this film is a remake of the 1953 classic, “Little Fugitive.” With his father in jail and his mother working long hours a… |
Low Down | Alain | 2014-01-19 | The daughter of jazz pianist Joe Albany witnesses her beloved father’s struggle — and failure — to kick his heroin habit…. |
Pixels | Eddie Plant | 2015-07-16 | Video game experts are recruited by the military to fight 1980s-era video game characters who’ve attacked New York…. |
13 Moons | Binky | 2002-08-30 | Can you solve the mystery of the 13 moons?… |
Saint John of Las Vegas | Mr. Townsend | 2010-01-29 | An ex-gambler is lured back into the game by a veteran insurance-fraud investigator…. |
The Croods: A New Age | Phil Betterman (voice) | 2020-11-25 | Searching for a safer habitat, the prehistoric Crood family discovers an idyllic, walled-in paradise that meets all of its needs. Unfortunately, they … |
The Origins of Ebbing | Himself/”James” | 2018-06-25 | … |
Underdog | Dr. Simon Barsinister | 2007-08-03 | A lab accident gives a hound named Shoeshine some serious superpowers — a secret that the dog eventually shares with the young boy who becomes his ow… |
Penelope | Lemon | 2006-03-01 | Forlorn heiress Penelope Wilhern is cursed, and the only way out is to fall in love with someone of suitable stock. But how can she find her soul mate… |
Just a Kiss | Dink | 2002-06-15 | A group of thirtysomethings having problems with fidelity gets an opportunity to turn back the clock…. |
Tiptoes | Maurice | 2003-09-08 | A man is reluctant to tell his fiancee that his parents, uncle and brother are dwarfs…. |
Ultra | The Scientist | 2006-09-01 | Superhero Pearl Penalosa juggles the impossible combination of keeping up a social life, searching for love, and battling the forces of evil…. |
Pigeonholed | 1999-09-28 | To the children of the rich, survival is just as difficult as it is for everyone else–but in their own trouble-filled minds, finding a reason to live… | |
The Angry Birds Movie | Mighty Eagle (voice) | 2016-05-11 | An island populated entirely by happy, flightless birds or almost entirely. In this paradise, Red, a bird with a temper problem, speedy Chuck, and the… |
Ascension Day | 2007-02-02 | A drama focused on Nat Turner and the 1831 slave rebellion in Virginia…. | |
Surviving Eden | Sterno | 2004-03-01 | A documentary crew captures the capitalistic trappings a reality show winner falls into during his short-lived stint with fame and fortune…. |
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes | Casca Highbottom | 2023-11-15 | Years before he would become the tyrannical President of Panem, 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow is the last hope for his fading lineage, a once-proud fami… |
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian | Trumpkin | 2008-05-15 | One year after their incredible adventures in the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Peter, Edmund, Lucy and Susan Pevensie return to Narnia to aid a y… |
Living in Oblivion | Tito | 1995-07-21 | Nick is the director of a low-budget indie film. He tries to keep everything together as his production is plagued with an insecure actress, a megalom… |
Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX | Himself | 2008-10-07 | This documentary delves into the art of make-up effects with industry legends Dick Smith, Rob Bottin, Tom Savini, John Landis, Frank Darabont, Joe Dan… |
A Little Bit of Heaven | Vinnie | 2011-02-03 | A guarded woman who finds out she’s dying of cancer but, when she meets her match, the threat of falling in love is scarier than death…. |
A Case of You | Gerard | 2013-11-06 | Young writer Sam has a crush on Birdie, the cute and quirky barista at his local coffee shop. When his conventional attempts to woo her crash and burn… |
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | James | 2017-12-01 | After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter’s murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her… |
The Limbo Room | Dusty Spitz | 2006-01-23 | When an on stage rape scene sparks an offstage affair, the line between reality and fiction becomes blurred…. |
The Last Rites of Ransom Pride | dwarf | 2010-06-17 | When Juliette sets out to bring her slain lover – outlaw Ransom Pride – home to Texas to be buried, she knows the journey won’t be easy, but she has l… |
Ice Age: Continental Drift | Captain Gutt (voice) | 2012-06-27 | Manny, Diego, and Sid embark upon another adventure after their continent is set adrift. Using an iceberg as a ship, they encounter sea creatures and … |
Never Again | Harry Appleton | 2001-03-11 | A man and a woman who have pledged never to fall in love again meet in a gay bar…. |
Between Two Ferns: The Movie | Peter Dinklage | 2019-09-20 | Galifianakis dreamed of becoming a star. But when Will Ferrell discovered his public access TV show, ‘Between Two Ferns’ and uploaded it to Funny or D… |
Elf | Miles Finch | 2003-10-09 | When young Buddy falls into Santa’s gift sack on Christmas Eve, he’s transported back to the North Pole and raised as a toy-making elf by Santa’s help… |
Death at a Funeral | Frank | 2010-04-15 | Aaron’s father’s funeral is today at the family home, and everything goes wrong: the funeral home delivers the wrong body, his cousin accidentally dru… |
Human Nature | Frank | 2001-09-12 | A philosophical burlesque, Human Nature follows the ups and downs of an obsessive scientist, a female naturalist, and the man they discover, born and … |
Dear Diary: World’s First Pranks | Phil Betterman (voice) | 2021-02-09 | Eep reveals how a comical accident led her and Dawn to discover the joys of tricking their families and set about performing “the world’s first pranks… |
X-Men: Days of Future Past | Bolivar Trask | 2014-05-15 | The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods as they join forces with their younger selves in an e… |
Game of Thrones: The Last Watch | Himself | 2019-05-26 | For a year, acclaimed British filmmaker Jeanie Finlay was embedded on the set of the hit HBO series “Game of Thrones,†chronicling the creation of… |
The Baxter | Benson Hedges | 2005-08-26 | A man with a “doormat” personality tries standing up for himself for a change in this comedy. Mild mannered tax accountant Elliot Sherman is what he c… |
The Angry Birds Movie 2 | Mighty Eagle (voice) | 2019-08-02 | Red, Chuck, Bomb and the rest of their feathered friends are surprised when a green pig suggests that they put aside their differences and unite to fi… |
Death at a Funeral | Peter | 2007-08-17 | A myriad of outrageous calamities befall an eccentric English clan with more than a few skeletons in its closets, when its patriarch dies an unexpecte… |
Bullet | Building Manager | 1996-03-01 | A tough, Jewish ex-con just released from prison crosses a powerful drug dealer and former prison rival in his return to a life of crime…. |
Safe Men | Leflore | 1998-08-17 | Two untalented singers are mistaken for a pair of major league safe crackers in Providence, Rhode Island. The two are pressed into service by the loca… |
Avengers: Infinity War | Eitri the Dwarf | 2018-04-25 | As the Avengers and their allies have continued to protect the world from threats too large for any one hero to handle, a new danger has emerged from … |
Peter Dinklage Production Movies
Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
Knights of Badassdom | Executive Producer | 2013-01-21 | Three best friends and dedicated roleplayers take to the woods to reenact a dungeons and dragons-like scenario as a live action role-playing game. Tro… |
I Think We’re Alone Now | Producer | 2018-09-14 | After the human race has been wiped out, Del lives in an empty town, content in his solitude and the utopia he has methodically created for himself, u… |
My Dinner with Hervé | Executive Producer | 2018-10-20 | An unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor Hervé Villechaize, the world’s most famous gun-tot… |
Brothers | Producer | Plot kept under wraps…. | |
Pete Smalls Is Dead | Producer | 2010-09-17 | Two old pals attend an old friends funeral and find there is more to his death than him being dead…. |
Good Bad & Undead | Producer | Van Helsing, last in a long line of vampire hunters. He develops an uneasy partnership with a Vampire who has taken a vow never to kill again. Togethe… | |
Keith | Executive Producer | Plot kept under wraps… | |
American Dreamer | Producer | 2022-06-11 | In this winsome comedy, an entitled Economics professor pursues a tactic to buy an ailing widow’s mansion for nothing, but he quickly realizes that … |
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