Peter Dinklage is an American actor and producer. He known for portraying Tyrion Lannister on the HBO television series Game of Thrones, for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series a record four times. For Netflix he portrays Roman Lunyov in the dark comedy film I Care a Lot.
Biography[]
He was born on June 11, 1969, in Morristown, New Jersey. Jonathan graduated from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Dinklage had his first theatrical success in a fifth-grade production of The Velveteen Rabbit. Dinklage then attended Bennington College, where he studied for a drama degree and also appeared in numerous productions before graduating in 1991.
Dinklage initially struggled to find work as an actor, partially because he refused to take the roles typically offered to actors with his condition, such as "elves or leprechauns." He made his credited film debut in the low-budget independent comedy-drama Living in Oblivion (1995), where he played an actor frustrated with the limited and caricatured roles offered to actors who have dwarfism. In 2003, he starred in The Station Agent (2003), written and directed by Tom McCarthy. The movie received critical praise as well as Peter Dinklage's work including nominations such as for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role at the "Screen Actors Guild" and Best Male Lead at the "Film Independent Spirit Awards".
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Marla Grayson • Fran • Jennifer Peterson • Roman Lunyov • Dean Ericson • Judge Lomax • Feldstrom • Dr. Amos • Sam Rice • Alexi Ignatyev |
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Rosamund Pike • Eiza Gonzalez • Dianne Wiest • Peter Dinklage • Chris Messina • Isaiah Whitlock Jr. • Macon Blair • Alicia Witt • Damian Young • Nicholas Logan |