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Peter Dinklage

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Peter Dinklage

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Also known as Peter Hayden Dinklage

American actor (born 1969)

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Peter Dinklage is an American stage, film, and television actor born on June 11, 1969, in Morristown, New Jersey. He began his professional work period in 1995 and is a graduate of Bennington College. Dinklage has a medical condition of achondroplasia and stands at a height of 135. He is a vegetarian and vegan, speaks English, and has two children.

His notable works include *Game of Thrones*, *The Station Agent*, *X-Men: Days of Future Past*, and *Pixels*. For his performances, he has received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film, the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.

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Person · Open Library

Works
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Top works

  • Game of thrones

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Film & TV

Acting · Morristown, New Jersey, USA

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…

Known for

  • Idiots — Koko2026
  • Wicker2026
  • The Toxic Avenger Unrated — Winston / Toxie, the Hero2025
  • Roofman — Mitch2025
  • Change, Not Charity: The Americans with Disabilities Act — Narrator2025
  • Twelfth Night — Malvolio2025
  • World of Westeros Ambient Video — Tyrion Lannister2025
  • Dexter: Resurrection — Leon Prater2025
  • Variety & CNN Actors on Actors — Self2025
  • Predator or Prey: Making The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes — Self (Dean Casca Highbottom)2024

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Morristown
Active from
1969
Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
181,724
Total plays
999,790

Tags

United Statesnew jerseygame of thrones

Similar artists

The Wicked OrchestraKristin Chenoweth & Idina MenzelStephen SchwartzWicked Movie CastJoel Grey

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Cutoff criteria for fit indexes in covariance structure analysis: Conventional criteria versus new alternatives

    · 1999 · cited 87,285x

  2. A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: Development and validation

    · 1987 · cited 42,797x

  3. QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

    · 2010 · cited 30,940x

  4. RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials

    · 2019 · cited 25,505x

  5. The ERA5 global reanalysis

    · 2020 · cited 24,136x

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Quotes

  • “I like animals, all animals. I wouldn’t hurt a cat or a dog—or a chicken or a cow. And I wouldn’t ask someone else to hurt them for me. That’s why I’m a vegetarian.”

via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA

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Encyclopedic overview

Peter Hayden Dinklage (/ˈdɪnklɪdʒ/; born June 11, 1969) is an American actor. Portraying Tyrion Lannister on the HBO television series Game of Thrones (2011–2019), he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series a record four times. Dinklage also received a Golden Globe Award in 2011 and an Actor 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. Dinklage's other films include Elf (2003), Lassie and The Baxter (both in 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), The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023), and Wicked (2024). In 2018, he appeared as Eitri in the Marvel film Avengers: Infinity War, and as Hervé Villechaize in the biopic film My Dinner with Hervé. Dinklage also provided voice-acting for the video game Destiny, and in 2023, he voiced Scourge in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. On television, Dinklage also starred in the series Dexter: Resurrection in 2025.

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