Peter Dinklage
Acting
- Born:
- 1969-06-11
- Place of birth:
- Morristown, New Jersey, USA
Biography
Peter Hayden Dinklage (/ˈdɪnklɪdʒ/; born June 11, 1969) is an American actor. He portrayed Tyrion Lannister on the HBO television series Game of Thrones (2011–2019). He won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series a record four times. Dinklage also received a Golden Globe Award in 2011 and an Actor Award in 2020 for the role. Born in the North Jersey region of New Jersey, Dinklage studied acting at Bennington College, performing in many amateur stage productions. He made his film debut in the black comedy film Living in Oblivion (1995). He had his breakthrough with a starring role in the 2003 comedy-drama The Station Agent. Dinklage's 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), The Thicket (2024), 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. Dinklage also provided voice acting for the video game Destiny. In 2023, he voiced Scourge in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. On television, Dinklage also starred in the series Dexter: Resurrection in 2025. Dinklage has also performed in theatre, 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 from the Wikipedia article Peter Dinklage, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Naughty
The Angry Birds Movie 3
Steps
Wicker
Idiots
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
Twelfth Night
Roofman
The Lowdown
The Toxic Avenger Unrated
Dexter: Resurrection
Change, Not Charity: The Americans with Disabilities Act
Making Wicked
Defying Gravity: The Curtain Rises on Wicked
Wicked
Brothers
The Thicket
Unfrosted
Predator or Prey: Making The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
How to Become a Mob Boss
She Came to Me
How to Become a Cult Leader
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
American Dreamer
Cyrano
How to Become a Tyrant
I Care a Lot
Dear Diary: World's First Pranks
Marvel Studios Legends
The Croods: A New Age
Between Two Ferns: The Movie
The Angry Birds Movie 2
Game of Thrones: The Last Watch
My Dinner with Hervé
I Think We're Alone Now
The Origins of Ebbing
Avengers: Infinity War
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
The David S. Pumpkins Halloween Special
Three Christs
Rememory
Movies with Ali Plumb
The Angry Birds Movie
The Boss
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Taxi
Pixels
Game of Thrones: The Musical
Hot Ones
Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience
The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Knights of Badassdom
Low Down
Rick and Morty
A Case of You
Ice Age: Continental Drift
Scrat's Continental Crack-Up: Part 2
Game of Thrones
A Little Bit of Heaven
Conan
Pete Smalls Is Dead
The Last Rites of Ransom Pride
I Love You Too
Death at a Funeral
Saint John of Las Vegas
Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Death at a Funeral
Underdog
Ascension Day
30 Rock
Penelope
Ultra
Little Fugitive
Find Me Guilty
The Limbo Room
Fortunes
Lassie
Threshold
The Baxter
Nobody Wants Your Film
Ice Age Columbus: Who Were the First Americans?
Life As We Know It
Entourage
Surviving Eden
The Station Agent
Elf
I'm with Her
Nip/Tuck
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Tiptoes
13 Moons
Just a Kiss
Human Nature
Never Again
The $treet
Pigeonholed
Third Watch
Safe Men
Oz
The Daily Show
Bullet
Living in Oblivion
MTV Movie & TV Awards
Saturday Night Live
Great Performances
Lear Rex
The Dwarf
Keith
The Reckoner
Lincoln in the Bardo