Peter Dinklage

Peter Hayden Dinklage (/ˈdɪŋklɪdʒ/ DINK-lij, born June 11, 1969) is an American actor and film producer. He has received such accolades as a Golden Globe Award and two Primetime Emmy Awards. Born and raised in Morristown, New Jersey, Dinklage began acting as a child in a fifth grade production of The Velveteen Rabbit. He studied acting at Bennington College, 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 such films as the comedy Elf (2003), the crime film Find Me Guilty (2006), the superhero comedy Underdog (2007), the high fantasy The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) and the superhero film X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014). Since 2011, Dinklage has portrayed Tyrion Lannister in the HBO series Game of Thrones. For this he won the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2011, and a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film in 2012, as well as consecutive Emmy nominations from 2011 to 2016, going on to win a second for Outstanding Supporting Actor Emmy in 2015. In 2017, Dinklage became one of the highest paid actors on television, earning $1.1 million per episode of Game of Thrones. Dinklage was born and self-identifies as a dwarf (achondroplasia) and stands 4 ft 5 in (1.35 m) tal