Peter Dinklage

Acting · Born 1969-06-11 in Morristown, New Jersey, USA

Biography

Peter Hayden Dinklage (born June 11, 1969) is an American actor. Portraying Tyrion Lannister on the HBO television series Game of Thrones (2011–2019), Dinklage won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series a record four times. He also received a Golden Globe Award in 2011 and a Screen Actors Guild Award in 2020 for the role. Born in the Jersey Shore region of New Jersey, Dinklage studied acting at Bennington College, performing in a number of amateur stage productions. He made his film debut in the black comedy film Living in Oblivion (1995), and had his breakthrough with a starring role in the 2003 comedy-drama The Station Agent. His other films include Elf (2003), Lassie and The Baxter (both in 2005), Find Me Guilty (2006), Penelope (2006), Death at a…

Filmography

• The Station Agent as Finbar McBride
• Living in Oblivion as Tito
• X-Men: Days of Future Past as Dr. Bolivar Trask
• The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes as Dean Casca Highbottom
• Transformers: Rise of the Beasts as Scourge (voice)
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri as James
• Avengers: Infinity War as Eitri
• The Angry Birds Movie 2 as Mighty Eagle (voice)
• The Croods: A New Age as Phil Betterman (voice)
• Game of Thrones: The Last Watch as Self

TV

• Third Watch as Drug Dealer
• Game of Thrones as Tyrion 'The Halfman' Lannister
• Oz as Murder Victim (uncredited)
• Rick and Morty as Chans (voice)
• Dexter: Resurrection as Leon Prater
• Threshold as Arthur Ramsey
• The $treet as Little Person
• The Daily Show as Self
• Entourage as Peter Dinklage
• Nip/Tuck as Marlowe Sawyer