Name
Peter Dinklage
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1969-06-11 (57 years old)
Place of Birth
Morristown, New Jersey, USA
Biography
Peter Hayden Dinklage (/ˈdɪnklɪdʒ/; born June 11, 1969) is an American actor. He portrayed 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 North Jersey region of New Jersey, Dinklage studied acting at Bennington College, performing in many amateur stage productions. He made his film debut in the black comedy film Living in Oblivion (1995). He 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), The Thicket (2024), 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. In 2023, he voiced Scourge in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. On television, Dinklage also starred in the series Dexter: Resurrection in 2025.
Dinklage has also performed in theatre, with roles including the title character in Richard III (2003) at the Public Theatre, Rakitin in A Month in the Country (2015) at Classic Stage Company, and Cyrano de Bergerac in Cyrano at the Daryl Roth Theatre in 2019.
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- 2003 The Station Agent as Finbar McBride
- 2007 Death at a Funeral as Peter
- 2008 The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian as Trumpkin
- 2003 Elf as Miles Finch
- 2007 Underdog as Dr. Simon Barsinister
- 2006 Penelope as Lemon
- 1995 Living in Oblivion as Tito
- 2006 Find Me Guilty as Ben Klandis
- 2010 Death at a Funeral as Frank
- 2005 Lassie as Rowlie
- 2002 Just a Kiss as Dink
- 2008 Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX as Self
- 1998 Safe Men as Leflore
- 2011 A Little Bit of Heaven as Vinnie
- 2010 The Last Rites of Ransom Pride as dwarf
- 2010 I Love You Too as Charlie
- 2022 American Dreamer as Phil Loder
- 2010 Pete Smalls Is Dead as K.C.
- 2006 Little Fugitive as Sam Norton
- 2014 Knights of Badassdom as Hung
- 2012 Ice Age: Continental Drift as Captain Gutt (voice)
- 2014 X-Men: Days of Future Past as Dr. Bolivar Trask
- 2014 The Angriest Man in Brooklyn as Aaron Altmann
- 2023 She Came to Me as Steven Lauddem
- 2006 The Limbo Room as Dusty Spitz
- 2013 A Case of You as Gerard
- 2014 Low Down as Alain
- 2015 Pixels as Eddie
- 2023 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes as Dean Casca Highbottom
- 2016 The Angry Birds Movie as Mighty Eagle (voice)
- 2001 Never Again as Harry Appleton
- 2001 Human Nature as Frank
- 2002 Tiptoes as Maurice
- 2015 Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience as Tyrion Lannister
- 2016 The Boss as Renault
- 2015 Taxi as Marc
- 2023 Transformers: Rise of the Beasts as Scourge (voice)
- 1996 Bullet as Building Manager
- 2024 Predator or Prey: Making The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes as Self (Dean Casca Highbottom)
- 2024 Unfrosted as Harry Friendly
- 2024 Defying Gravity: The Curtain Rises on Wicked as Self
- 2024 The Thicket as Reginald Jones
- 2017 Rememory as Sam Bloom
- 2017 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri as James
- 2002 13 Moons as Binky
- 2007 Ascension Day
- 2005 Ice Age Columbus: Who Were the First Americans? as Narrator
- 2017 Three Christs as Joseph
- Soon Lear Rex as The Fool
- 2018 I Think We're Alone Now as Del
- 2011 Scrat's Continental Crack-Up: Part 2 as Captain Gutt (voice)
- 2005 Nobody Wants Your Film as Self
- 2018 My Dinner with Hervé as Hervé Villechaize
- 2006 Ultra as The Scientist
- 2017 The David S. Pumpkins Halloween Special as Narrator / Adult Kevin (voice)
- 1999 Pigeonholed
- 2010 Saint John of Las Vegas as Mr. Townsend
- 2018 Avengers: Infinity War as Eitri
- 2019 The Angry Birds Movie 2 as Mighty Eagle (voice)
- Soon The Dwarf
- 2020 The Croods: A New Age as Phil Betterman (voice)
- 2019 Game of Thrones: The Last Watch as Self
- 2018 The Origins of Ebbing as Self
- 2024 Brothers as Jady Munger
- 2021 I Care a Lot as Roman Lunyov
- 2019 Between Two Ferns: The Movie as Peter Dinklage
- 2021 Cyrano as Cyrano de Bergerac
- Soon Keith
- 2005 The Baxter as Benson Hedges
- 2025 The Toxic Avenger Unrated as Winston / Toxie, the Hero
- 2021 Dear Diary: World's First Pranks as Phil Betterman (voice)
- 2004 Surviving Eden as Sterno
- 2025 Roofman as Mitch
- 2024 Wicked as Dr. Dillamond (voice)
- 2026 Idiots as Karl 'Koko' Sandoz
- 2026 Wicker as Basket Weaver
- 2025 Change, Not Charity: The Americans with Disabilities Act as Narrator
- 2024 Making Wicked as Self
- 2005 Fortunes as Mike Kirkwood
- 2025 Twelfth Night as Malvolio
- Soon The Reckoner
- 2026 Steps as Roderick (voice)
- 2027 Naughty as Santa Claus
- 2026 The Angry Birds Movie 3 as Mighty Eagle (voice)
- Soon Lincoln in the Bardo
- 2015 Game of Thrones: The Musical as Tyrion Lannister
- 1999 Third Watch ( 1 episode ) as Drug Dealer
- 2011 Game of Thrones ( 73 episodes ) as Tyrion 'The Halfman' Lannister
- 2005 Threshold ( 13 episodes ) as Arthur Ramsey
- 2000 The $treet ( 1 episode ) as Little Person
- 1996 The Daily Show ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 2004 Entourage ( 1 episode ) as Peter Dinklage
- 2003 Nip/Tuck ( 7 episodes ) as Marlowe Sawyer
- 2003 I'm with Her ( 3 episodes ) as Elliot Rosen
- 2006 30 Rock ( 1 episode ) as Stewart
- 2021 How to Become a Tyrant ( 6 episodes ) as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 1975 Saturday Night Live ( 1 episode ) as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
- 2021 Marvel Studios Legends ( 1 episode ) as Eitri the Dwarf (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2023 How to Become a Cult Leader ( 6 episodes ) as Narrator (voice)
- 1997 Oz ( 1 episode ) as Murder Victim (uncredited)
- 2004 Life As We Know It ( 2 episodes ) as Dr. Belber
- 1992 MTV Movie & TV Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self / Presenter
- 2023 How to Become a Mob Boss ( 6 episodes ) as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 1975 Saturday Night Live ( 1 episode ) as Self - Host
- 2013 Rick and Morty ( 1 episode ) as Chans (voice)
- 2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert ( 3 episodes ) as Self - Guest
- 2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live! ( 2 episodes ) as Self - Guest
- 2015 Hot Ones ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2025 Dexter: Resurrection ( 10 episodes ) as Leon Prater
- 1971 Great Performances ( 1 episode ) as Malvolio
- 2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 2016 Movies with Ali Plumb ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2025 Variety & CNN Actors on Actors ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2025 The Lowdown ( 1 episode ) as Wendell
- 2010 Conan ( 1 episode ) as Self
