Peter Hayden Dinklage was in born June 11, 1969 in Morristown, New Jersey. He is an American actor best known for his role as Miles Finch in the movie Elf and more recently his role as Tyrion Lannister in the HBO series- Game Of Thrones.
Dinklage was born with achondroplasia, a common form of dwarfism. He graduated from Delbarton School in 1987 and Bennington College in 1991.
He made his film debut, Living in Oblivion (1995) as a frustrated actor with dwarfism who complains about his clichéd roles. His breakout role was in the 2003 film The Station Agent,for which he received Independent Spirit and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for Best Actor.
He is famous for the role he plays as Tyrion Lannister in HBO's Game of Thrones an adaptation of author George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series. His performance has received widespread praise,highlighted by his receiving the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2011, as well as the 2012 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film.
As a result of his outstanding performance and increased screen time, Dinklage was given top billing starting in the series second season.
Though Dinklage continues to find success and wide-received acclaim for his role, in 2014, he admitted on The Late Show with David Letterman that he has never read the series authored by Martin. He stated that he started the series but had gotten confused. He joked to Letterman, “George Martin, our author, is probably going to kill my character soon because I mentioned that.”
Peter who is a vegan is married to Erica Schmidt a theatre director and they had their first child, a daughter named Zelig, in 2011. The family lives in New York City.
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When asked about his height in a 2003 interview, Dinklage said: "When I was younger, I definitely let it get to me. As an adolescent, I was bitter and angry, and I definitely put up these walls. But the older you get, you realize you just have to have a sense of humor. You just know that it's not your problem. It's theirs."
In 2012, a New York Times interviewer asked Dinklage whether he saw himself as "a spokesman for the rights of little people". Dinklage responded: "I don't know what I would say. Everyone's different. Every person my size has a different life, a different history. Different ways of dealing with it. Just because I'm seemingly okay with it, I can't preach how to be okay with it. I don't think I still am okay with it. There are days when I’m not”.
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