Peter Hayden Dinklage (/ˈdɪŋklɪdʒ/; born June 11, 1969) is an American film and stage actor. He received acclaim for portraying Tyrion Lannister on the HBO television series Game of Thrones(2011–2019), 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 Award in 2011 and a Screen Actors Guild Award in 2020 for the role. Raised in Mendham Township, New Jersey, he studied acting at Bennington College while working at a local guitar shop, starring in a number of amateur stage productions. His film official movie debut was in Living in Oblivion (1995), although he already in 1991 appeared uncredited as a circus artist in Woody Allen's Shadows and Fog, and his breakthrough came with the comedy-drama The Station Agent (2003). Dinklage has appeared in Elf (2003), Lassie (2005), Find Me Guilty (2006), Penelope (2006), Underdog (2007), Death at a Funeral (2007), The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008), Death at a Funeral (2010), X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), Pixels (2015), and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017). 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 Hervé. He also provided voice-acting for the video game Destiny. He is also known for his work in theatre having performed the title character in Richard III in 2003 at the Public Theatre, Rakitin in A Month in the Country in 2015 at Classic Stage Company and the title role in Cyrano at the Daryl Roth Theatre in 2019. The actor has a common form of dwarfism known as achondroplasia; he stands 4 ft 5 in (1.35 m) tall. He has used his celebrity status to highlight social conditions about dwarfs, as in his acceptance speech at the 2012 Golden Globe ceremony.
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