Peter Dinklage is an American actor.Since his breakout role in The Station Agent, he has appeared in numerous films and theatre plays. Since 2011, Dinklage has portrayed Tyrion Lannister in the HBO series Game of Thrones (2011–present). 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.

Dinklage was born in Morristown, New Jersey. His father, John Carl Dinklage, is an insurance salesman and former music teacher; his mother, Diane (née Mary) Dinklage, is a music teacher at Westminster Choir College. He was born with achondroplasia,[7] a common form of dwarfism.[8][9] He grew up in Mendham Township.[10] His younger brother named Jonathan is also an actor.

Dinklage received his Bachelor of Arts from Bennington College in 1991.[11][12] Prior to his role on Game of Thrones he had appeared in films such as Living in Oblivion (1995), The Station Agent (2003), Elf (2003), Death at a Funeral (2007) and The Chronicles of

Peter Dinklage is an American actor and film producer. 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, as well as two consecutive Emmy nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. He also won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series twice, in 2012 and 2015.

Dinklage was born in Morristown, New Jersey, the son of John Carl Dinklage, an insurance salesman of German descent,[3] and Diane Dinklage (née Sennott), a music teacher of English descent.[4][5] He was born with achondroplasia, a common form of dwarfism. He got his first taste of theatrical success in high school by starring as Winnie-the-Pooh’s friend Eeyore in an elementary school production of Winnie-the-Pooh.

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, as well as three consecutive Emmy nominations from 2012 to 2014.

Dinklage was born in Morristown, New Jersey, the son of Diane (née Cusack), an elementary school music teacher, and John Carl Dinklage, a retired insurance salesman.[1] He was born with achondroplasia, a common form of dwarfism. He grew up in Mendham Township,[2] New Jersey.[3][4] His older brother Jonathan was born without the genetic disorder[5][6] and is a director and cinematographer.[7]

Dinklage was raised Roman Catholic.[8][9][10] He later graduated from Delbarton School, a Catholic prep school for boys, where he appeared in numerous plays as well as starring as Felix Unger in

Peter Dinklage is an American actor and film producer. 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 (2011-present).

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. In 2017, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Peter Dinklage is an American actor and producer. 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 (2011–present).

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, as well as consecutive nominations for the Emmy from 2012 to 2016. He has also received three consecutive nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series from 2015 to 2017, winning the award in 2015 and 2016; his fourth nomination came in 2018. In 2018, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Dinklage studied acting at Bennington College, starring in a number of amateur stage productions. His film debut was in Living in Oblivion (1995). Following minor roles in film and television, his breakthrough role was playing the loquacious dwarf Finbo Baggins in the fantasy film The Station Agent (2003). Since then he has played supporting roles in numerous films including Elf (2003), Find Me Guilty (2006), Underdog (

Peter Dinklage is an American actor and film producer. He has received numerous accolades, including a Golden Globe, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and three Emmy Awards. His breakthrough came in 2003 with The Station Agent, for which he received independent film awards.

In 2011, Dinklage portrayed Tyrion Lannister in the HBO series Game of Thrones (2011–present), for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2011 and 2015, among other accolades. The show has earned him additional Emmy and Screen Actors Guild nominations. In 2018, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

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. He won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film for the role in 2011, as well as an Emmy nomination and another Golden Globe nomination for 2012. For the 2015 season of Game of Thrones, Dinklage became one of the highest paid actors on television, earning US$1.1 million per episode.

He started out as a child actor, appearing in small roles on stage and film during the 1980s; his first acting credit was in Living Proof: The Hank Williams Jr. Story (1983). In 1995, he graduated from Bennington College with a bachelor’s degree in drama. After struggling for years as a film actor, he made his breakthrough playing Finbar McBride in The Station Agent (2003). Since then, he has acted in Elf (2003), Find Me Guilty (2006), Underdog (2007), Death at a Funeral (2007) and its American remake (2010