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11 June
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New Jersey, United States
Edit pagePeter Dinklage
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. Dinklage has a common form of dwarfism known as achondroplasia and stands 4 ft 5 in (1.35 m) tall. He has used his celebrity status to raise social awareness of dwarfism.
Dinklage studied acting at Bennington College, performing in several 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 (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), and The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023).
In 2018, he appeared as Eitri in the Marvel film Avengers: Infinity War and Hervé Villechaize in the biopic film My Dinner with Hervé. He also provided voice-acting for the video game Destiny, and in 2023 voiced Scourge in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts.
In 2020, Dinklage portrayed the fearsome pirate Fannybaws in the music video of the same name from Scottish power metal band Alestorm.
In 2021, Dinklage portrayed mobster Roman Lunyov in the crime thriller I Care a Lot. His performance was praised, with Tony Sokol favorably comparing his character to Russian mobsters in other media, including Training Day and Orange is the New Black.
In 2023, Dinklage voiced Terrorcon Scourge, the main antagonist in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. He also starred in the romantic comedy-drama film She Came to Me and played Casca Highbottom in the film The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.
In 2024, Dinklage was announced to voice Dr. Dillamond in the two-part film adaptation of the musical, Wicked.
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Actor
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes as Dean Casca Highbottom
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian as Trumpkin