"Peter Dinklage"

Peter Hayden Dinklage (born June 11, 1969) is an American film, television and theatre actor. Since his breakout role in the 2003 film The Station Agent, he has acted in Elf, Underdog, Find Me Guilty, the 2007 film Death at a Funeral and its 2010 remake, and The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. Since 2011 he has starred in the HBO series Game of Thrones, based on George R.R. Martin's series of novels A Song of Ice and Fire, which earned him the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries or Television Film.

Dinklage was born in Morristown, New Jersey, the son of Diane, an elementary school music teacher, and John Carl Dinklage, a retired insurance salesman. Dinklage was born with achondroplasia. He grew up in Mendham Township, New Jersey. Dinklage graduated from Delbarton School in Morristown in 1987, pursuing his future in acting, and graduated from Bennington College in 1991.

Dinklage made his feature debut in the 1995 cult art house film Living in Oblivion playing the role of a frustrated dwarf actor complaining about his clichéd part. Dinklage's breakout role was in the 2003 award-winning film The Station Agent, his first mainstream appearance. He received Independent Spirit and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for Best Actor for his performance in that film. That same year, he appeared in the direct-to-DVD movie Tiptoes with Gary Oldman. As well as appearing in films, Dinklage has starred multiple times in off-Broadway productions.

In Elf, Dinklage played a pretentious children's author who beats up Will Ferrell's character after he is unintentionally insulted. In 2005, Dinklage starred in the short-lived CBS science fiction series Threshold and appeared in the Michael Showalter comedy The Baxter as a wedding planner. In 2006, Dinklage appeared in Sidney Lumet's courtroom drama Find Me Guilty, and in episodes of Nip/Tuck. He played himself in one episode of the HBO television series Entourage and was featured on NBC's 30 Rock. Dinklage also had a role in the 2007 film Death at a Funeral. He plays the same role in the remake of the film. That same year, he played the villainous Simon Bar Sinister in Underdog.

Dinklage was chosen by director Andrew Adamson for the role of Trumpkin in the 2008 film Prince Caspian, although film critic Bill Gibron described his role as a "cutesy stereotype he has tried to avoid." Dinklage starred in the horror comedy Knights of Badassdom, directed by Joe Lynch. Dinklage plays Tyrion Lannister in HBO's Game of Thrones, an adaptation of author George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series. His performance has received widespread praise, highlighted by his receipt of the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2011, as well as the 2012 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film. As a result of this and an increased screen time, Dinklage was given top billing in season two.

Dinklage married Erica Schmidt, a theatre director, in 2005. In 2011, they had their first child, a daughter. He is of German and Irish descent. When asked about his height in a 2003 interview, he said: "When I was younger, definitely, I let it get to me. As an adolescent, I was bitter and angry and I definitely put up these walls. But the older you get, you realize you just have to have a sense of humor. You just know that it's not your problem. It's theirs." Dinklage is a vegetarian and lives with his wife and daughter in upstate New York.

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Living in Oblivion	Tito
1996	Bullet	Building manager	Uncredited
1998	Safe Men	Leflore
1999	Pigeonholed	Roy
2001	Human Nature	Frank
	Never Again	Harry Appleton
2002	13 Moons	Binky
	Just a Kiss	Dink
2003	Elf	Miles Finch
	The Station Agent	Finbar McBride	Chlotrudis Award for Best Cast Ourense Independent Film Festival Award for Best Actor Satellite Award for Outstanding Talent Nominated—Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Most Promising Performer Nominated—Chlotrudis Award for Best Actor Nominated—Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead Nominated—Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Breakthrough Performance Nominated—Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Breakout Performance—On Screen Nominated—Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
	Tiptoes	Maurice
2004	89 Seconds in Alcázar	Mari Barbola	Short film
	Jail Bait	Lindo
	Surviving Eden	Sterno
2005	The Baxter	Benson Hedges
	Escape Artists	Mr. Duff
	Fortunes	Mike Kirkwood
	Lassie	Rowlie
	Nobody Wants Your Film	Himself	Documentary
2006	Find Me Guilty	Ben Klandis
	Penelope	Lemon
	The Limbo Room	Dusty Spitz
	Little Fugitive	Sam Norton
2007	Ascension Day	Brantly
	Death at a Funeral	Peter
	Underdog	Dr. Simon Barsinister
2008	The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian	Trumpkin
2009	Saint John of Las Vegas	Mr. Townsend
2010	Death at a Funeral	Frank
	The Last Rites of Ransom Pride	Dwarf
	I Love You Too	Charlie
	Pete Smalls Is Dead	KC
2011	A Little Bit of Heaven	Vinnie
2012	The Knights of Badassdom	Hung
	Ice Age: Continental Drift	Captain Gutt	Voice only

 

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Seinfeld	James' telephone voice	Episode: "The Wink" Uncredited
2001	Oz	Stunts	Episode: "Even the Score"
	The $treet	Little Person	Episode: "Junk Bonds"
2002	Third Watch	Drug dealer	Episode: "The Long Guns"
2004	Dinner for Five	Himself	Episode: "#3.8"
	I'm with Her	Elliot Rosen	3 episodes
2004–2006	P.O.V.	Himself	2 episodes
2005	Celebrity Poker Showdown		Tournament 6, Game 2
	Entourage		Episode: "The Sundance Kids"
	Life as We Know It	Dr. Belber	2 episodes
	Testing Bob	Robinson "Bob" Hart
2005–2006	Threshold	Arthur Ramsey	13 episodes
2006	Nip/Tuck	Marlowe Sawyer	7 episodes
	Ultra	Unknown	Pilot for CBS
2009	30 Rock	Stewart	Episode: Señor Macho Solo
2011–present	Game of Thrones	Tyrion Lannister	20 episodes Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (2011) Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film (2011) Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film (2011, tied with Ryan Hurst) Scream Award for Best Supporting Actor (2011) Nominated—IGN Award for Best Television Actor of 2011 Nominated—Scream Award for Best Ensemble (2011) Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series (2011) Nominated—Television Critics Association Award for Individual Achievement in Drama (2011)

Source : http://en.wikipedia.org