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Peter Dinklage
Peter Hayden Dinklage 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.
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Born 11 June 1969 · Q310937
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2026· 6 entries
“set out to tell a story about a guy who was a train enthusiast who had chosen to isolate himself from the world”
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Yahoo: “Elf” star Peter Dinklage to play Santa Claus in the naughty next film from Olivia Wilde
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The A.V. Club: Peter Dinklage is Santa Claus in Olivia Wilde's next directorial feature
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Yahoo: Daniel Radcliffe, Peter Dinklage, and More Join Netflix’s New Cinderella Movie Cast
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UPI: Peter Dinklage joins 'Alien: Earth' Season 2
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2025· 2 entries
Pinkvilla: Peter Dinklage Debuts Gruesome Mop-Wielding Superhero in The Toxic Avenger Unrated Comic-Con Preview
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Dinklage starred as main antagonist Leon Prater in the first season of Dexter: Resurrection
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2024· 5 entries
Snopes rated the claim “An image showed an official poster for a sequel to the 2003 film “Elf" starring Will Ferrell and Peter Dinklage, set to release on Max in December 2024.” Labeled Satire.
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Deadline.com: Peter Dinklage Is Hopeful ‘The Toxic Avenger’ Film Will Release To “Have Its Day In The Toxic Sun”
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Dinklage voiced Hercule Poirot in an Audible adaptation of Agatha Christie's The Mysterious Affair at Styles, reprising the role in 2025's The A
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Dinklage was announced to voice Dr
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Dinklage had a cameo in Jerry Seinfeld's Unfrosted, which premiered on Netflix
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2023· 4 entries
Snopes.com rated the claim “In the 1995 "Seinfeld" episode "The Wink," a wake-up call to Elaine is voiced by Peter Dinklage in an uncredited role.” False.
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Dinklage starred as the titular character in The Toxic Avenger, which was released on August 29, 2025
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Dinklage voiced Terrorcon Scourge, the main antagonist in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
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Voiced Scourge in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
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2020· 3 entries
Awarded Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series for Game of Thrones (2020).
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Dinklage portrayed mobster Roman Lunyov in the crime thriller I Care a Lot
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Dinklage portrayed the pirate Fannybaws in the music video of the same name from Scottish power metal band Alestorm
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2019· 2 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for Game of Thrones (2019).
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Dinklage was announced he would co-star in the comedy film Brothers, alongside Josh Brolin
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2018· 6 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for Game of Thrones (2018).
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Awarded Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2018).
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Awarded Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2018).
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Dinklage starred and played the title role in My Dinner with Hervé
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Appeared as Eitri in the Marvel film Avengers: Infinity War, and as Hervé Villechaize in the biopic film My Dinner with Hervé
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Dinklage produced and starred in I Think We're Alone Now, a post-apocalyptic drama based on the companionship between Del, played by Dinklage, and Grace, played by Elle Fanning
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2017· 3 entries
Dinklage purchased the rights to the film adaptation of Joe R
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Dinklage attended the Women's March demonstration in Park City, Utah to advocate legislation and policies regarding human rights and other issues
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Dinklage had a supporting role in the drama-dark comedy film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, from director Martin McDonagh, and the drama Three Christs, both of which played at the Toronto International Film F
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2016· 2 entries
Dinklage and his longtime manager David Ginsburg founded their joint-venture production company, Estuary Films
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Dinklage provided the voice of The Mighty Eagle in The Angry Birds Movie, and recorded a song for the musical's soundtrack
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2015· 4 entries
Awarded Empire Hero Award for Game of Thrones (2015).
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Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for Game of Thrones (2015).
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Dinklage starred in the science fiction comedy film Pixels as a former arcade champion named Eddie Plant
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Dinklage lent his voice for the role of Tyrion in Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series, a video game based on the show
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2014· 3 entries
Dinklage starred in the comedy horror film Knights of Badassdom opposite Ryan Kwanten and Steve Zahn
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Dinklage and four of his Game of Thrones co-stars became some of the highest paid actors on television, although sources differ on the actors' per-episode salaries
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Said on The Late Show with David Letterman that he had once tried to read the books the show is based upon, but had found them confusing
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2013· 1 entry
Dinklage hosted an episode of the show in April 2016; his appearances included a sketch of him and Gwen Stefani singing a new song called "Space Pants"
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2012· 2 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film for Game of Thrones (2012).
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Whether he saw himself as "a spokesman for the rights of little people", Dinklage said: "I don't know what I would say
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2011· 3 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for Game of Thrones (2011).
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2015, 2018, and 2019, as well as the 2012 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor
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Dinklage appeared opposite Kate Hudson in Nicole Kassell's A Little Bit of Heaven
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2010· 1 entry
Appeared in the Australian movie I Love You Too alongside Brendan Cowell and Peter Helliar
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2009· 1 entry
“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.”
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2008· 2 entries
Dinklage described himself as a lapsed Catholic
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In 2008, Dinklage described himself as a lapsed Catholic.
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2007· 1 entry
Played the villainous Simon Bar Sinister in Underdog, which was poorly received, but had some commercial success
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2006· 1 entry
Dinklage co-starred with Vin Diesel in Find Me Guilty, a courtroom drama directed by Sidney Lumet
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2005· 2 entries
Starred in the short-lived CBS science fiction series Threshold and appeared as a wedding planner in the comedy film The Baxter
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Dinklage married Erica Schmidt, a theater director
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2003· 1 entry
Said that when he was younger, he was often angry and bitter, but that as he got older, he realized he "just [has] to have a sense of humor" to know "that it's not your problem
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1984· 1 entry
Dinklage was inspired to pursue an acting career by a production of Sam Shepard's play True West
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1969· 2 entries
Born 1969-06-11.
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In the North Jersey region of New Jersey, to John Carl Dinklage, an insurance salesman, and Diane Dinklage, an elementary school music teacher of German and Irish descent
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