Peter Dinklage

Peter Dinklage

Peter Hayden Dinklage was born on June 11, 1969, in Morristown, New Jersey. He was born with achondroplasia, a common form of dwarfism. He studied acting at Bennington College while working at a local guitar shop. His breakthrough came with the comedy-drama The Station Agent. He has since appeared in Elf, Lassie, Find Me Guilty, Underdog, Death at a Funeral, Penelope, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Pixels, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

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Summary Peter DinklagePeter Hayden Dinklage was born on June 11, 1969, in Morristown, New Jersey. He was born with achondroplasia, a common form of dwarfism. He studied acting at Bennington College while working at a local guitar shop. His breakthrough came with the comedy-drama The Station Agent. He has since appeared in Elf, Lassie, Find Me Guilty, Underdog, Death at a Funeral, Penelope, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Pixels, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. 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 Hervés. He is of German and Irish descent. He currently plays 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. His brother, Jonathan, is a violinist for the musical Hamilton and is the real performer of the family. He had his first theatrical success in a fifth-grade production of The Velveteen Rabbit. His role in Living in Oblivion was that of a frustrated actor with dwarfism who complains about his clichéd roles. He found his breakthrough playing Finbar, a quiet, withdrawn, unmarried man in the 2003 Tom McCarthy-directed film The Station agent.

He took three years to make the film, which was not written with him in mind, and was actually written by Bobby Cannavale, who had chosen to isolate himself from the world but actually wanted to tell a story about a guy who was a train enthusiast. He appeared as a building manager in the crime drama Bullet starring rapper Tupac Shakur. He starred in the comedy 13 Moons, which has been well received by critics. His first film role was in the independent film Living In Oblivion, where he performed alongside Steve Buscemi. He then appeared as the lead in the low-budget independent film 13 Moons. He played Finbar in the film which was directed by Alexandre Rockwell, who was also the director of 13 Moons and directed the film by Tom McCarthy. He later appeared in the movie 13 Moons as a train-obsessed, lonely man who gets the girl in the middle of the night. He now lives in New York City with his wife and their two children. He lives with his parents and older brother in Mendham Township, New NJ, with his mother and father. He works at a data processing company for six years before pursuing a career as a full-time actor. He previously worked as a data processed company for 6 years before working as an actor. His mother is an elementary-school music teacher.