page_title: Peter Dinklage
hierarchical_section_title: Peter Dinklage
caption_attribution_description: English: Peter Dinklage at the 2013 San Diego Comic Con International in San Diego, California.
context_page_description: Peter Hayden Dinklage is an American actor and producer. He received universal acclaim 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 number of four times. He also received a Golden Globe for the role in 2011 as well as the Screen Actors Guild Award in 2020.
  Born in Mendham Township, New Jersey, and raised in Brookside, Dinklage is a dwarf and stands 4 ft 5 in tall. He studied acting at Bennington College, starring in a number of amateur stage productions. His film debut was in Living in Oblivion and his breakthrough came with the comedy-drama The Station Agent. He has since appeared in Elf, Lassie, Find Me Guilty, Underdog, Death at a Funeral, Penelope, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Pixels, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, which earned him his first Screen Actors Guild Award. 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.
context_section_description: Peter Hayden Dinklage (/ˈdɪŋklɪdʒ/; born June 11, 1969) is an American actor and producer. He received universal acclaim 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 number of four times. He also received a Golden Globe for the role in 2011 as well as the Screen Actors Guild Award in 2020.
  Born in Mendham Township, New Jersey, and raised in Brookside, Dinklage is a dwarf (achondroplasia) and stands 4 ft 5 in (1.35 m) tall. He studied acting at Bennington College, starring in a number of amateur stage productions. His film debut was in Living in Oblivion (1995) and his breakthrough came with the comedy-drama The Station Agent (2003). He has since appeared in Elf (2003), Lassie (2005), Find Me Guilty (2006), Underdog (2007), Death at a Funeral (2007), Penelope (2008), The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008), X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), Pixels (2015), and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), which earned him his first Screen Actors Guild Award. 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.
caption: Dinklage at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con
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