Peter Hayden Dinklage (/ˈdɪŋklɪdÊ'/; born June 11, 1969) is an
American actor and producer. He received acclaim for portraying Tyrion
Lannister on the HBO television series Game of Thrones from 2011 to
2019, for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding
Supporting Actor in a Drama Series a record four times. He also
received a Golden Globe for the role in 2011 as well as a Screen
Actors Guild Award in 2020.Born in Mendham Township, New Jersey, and
raised in Brookside, Dinklage is a dwarf (achondroplasia) and stands 4
ft 5 in (1.35 m) tall. He studied acting at Bennington College while
working at a local guitar shop, starring in a number of amateur stage
productions. His film debut was in Living in Oblivion (1995) and his
breakthrough came with the comedy-drama The Station Agent (2003). He
has since appeared in Elf (2003), Lassie (2005), Find Me Guilty
(2006), Underdog (2007), Death at a Funeral (2007), Penelope (2008),
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008), X-Men: Days of Future
Past (2014), Pixels (2015), and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing,
Missouri (2017), which earned him his first Screen Actors Guild Award.
In 2018, he appeared as Eitri in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film
Avengers: Infinity War and Hervé Villechaize in the biopic film My
Dinner with Hervé.Peter Hayden Dinklage was born on June 11, 1969, in
Morristown, New Jersey, to John Carl Dinklage, an insurance salesman,
and Diane Dinklage, an elementary-school music teacher. He was born
with achondroplasia, a common form of dwarfism. Dinklage grew up as
the only dwarf in his family in the historic Brookside section of
Mendham Township, New Jersey, with his parents and older brother,
Jonathan. He is of German and Irish descent. Jonathan graduated from
the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and is a
violinist for the musical Hamilton. As a child, Dinklage and his
brother performed puppet musicals for people in their neighborhood.
Dinklage has described Jonathan as being the "real performer of the
family," saying that his brother's passion for the violin was the only
thing that kept him from pursuing acting.
American actor and producer. He received acclaim for portraying Tyrion
Lannister on the HBO television series Game of Thrones from 2011 to
2019, for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding
Supporting Actor in a Drama Series a record four times. He also
received a Golden Globe for the role in 2011 as well as a Screen
Actors Guild Award in 2020.Born in Mendham Township, New Jersey, and
raised in Brookside, Dinklage is a dwarf (achondroplasia) and stands 4
ft 5 in (1.35 m) tall. He studied acting at Bennington College while
working at a local guitar shop, starring in a number of amateur stage
productions. His film debut was in Living in Oblivion (1995) and his
breakthrough came with the comedy-drama The Station Agent (2003). He
has since appeared in Elf (2003), Lassie (2005), Find Me Guilty
(2006), Underdog (2007), Death at a Funeral (2007), Penelope (2008),
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008), X-Men: Days of Future
Past (2014), Pixels (2015), and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing,
Missouri (2017), which earned him his first Screen Actors Guild Award.
In 2018, he appeared as Eitri in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film
Avengers: Infinity War and Hervé Villechaize in the biopic film My
Dinner with Hervé.Peter Hayden Dinklage was born on June 11, 1969, in
Morristown, New Jersey, to John Carl Dinklage, an insurance salesman,
and Diane Dinklage, an elementary-school music teacher. He was born
with achondroplasia, a common form of dwarfism. Dinklage grew up as
the only dwarf in his family in the historic Brookside section of
Mendham Township, New Jersey, with his parents and older brother,
Jonathan. He is of German and Irish descent. Jonathan graduated from
the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and is a
violinist for the musical Hamilton. As a child, Dinklage and his
brother performed puppet musicals for people in their neighborhood.
Dinklage has described Jonathan as being the "real performer of the
family," saying that his brother's passion for the violin was the only
thing that kept him from pursuing acting.
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