Peter Dinklage is an American actor. Since his breakout role in The Station Agent , as well as the 2012 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries or Television Film. In 2012, Dinklage voiced Captain Gutt in Ice Age: Continental Drift. In 2014, he starred in the comedy horror film Knights of Badassdom and portrayed Bolivar Trask in the superhero film X-Men: Days of Future Past. In 2016, Dinklage provided the voice of The Mighty Eagle in The Angry Birds Movie.
November 2004 - engaged to theater director Erica Schmidt.
Has achondroplasia, a form of dwarfism in which the body is perfectly formed but the bones initially modelled in cartilage, the long bones of the arms and legs, do not grow long enough. Velzquez painted a fine portrait of a man with this condition which hangs in the Prado in Madrid.
Is a vegetarian. Anytime you see him eating a meat product on screen, it is a tofu product (such as the tofu "beef" jerky, in The Station Agent ).
Son of an elementary school music teacher and retired insurance salesman. Both parents are of average height, as is older brother, John, a violinist.
He was George R.R. Martin s first choice to play "Tyrion Lannister" in "Game of Thrones" .
For his role on "Game of Thrones" , named one of the "Eight Actors Who Turn Television into Art," in cover story of The New York Times Magazine (9/11/11).
In his acceptance speech for the Golden Globe, Dinklage called attention to the plight of Martin Henderson, a dwarf who was crippled after being attacked by a rugby player outside a bar.
He and his wife have one child at present, a daughter.
Owns a dog named Kevin.
Studies theology.
Delivered the 2012 Commencement Address at his alma mater, Bennington College (Vermont). He is a 1991 graduate of Bennington College with a degree in drama.
He has German, Irish, and English ancestry. His surname is German.
Dinklage is considered such a genuinely pleasant and amiable person by his costars on "Game of Thrones", that many of them find it quite difficult to act out scenes with him in which theyre mistreating his character Tyrion. He and Lena Headey are such good friends, in fact, they share an apartment whenever theyre filming scenes and drive together to the set each day, even though their characters have a mutual hatred of each other. Charles Dance has also expressed disdain for how his character treats Tyrion, stating that he finds it hard to be so mean to a nice man like Dinklage.
Has both a dog and a dog walker named Kevin.
Even as a struggling actor, he turned down many roles in fantasy films out of fear of being typecast as a magical dwarf or little person for the rest of his career. Living in expensive New York, he admitted that he would often be so short on money that a dinner consisted of a bag of crisps.
Peters surname is the same as the town of Dinklage in Lower Saxony, district of Vechta, in the Northwest region of Germany. The name "Dinklage" derives from the Old Norse word "thing", which means a gathering place, such as one for a council or trial. Built as a castle near the end of the Early Middle Ages, it was first officially recorded not before 1231. Over time and due to phonetical changes in the German language, like the cessation of the th-sound, the name changed from "Thinclage" to "Dinclage" and finally to todays common term "Dinklage" (Place of the Thing).
[on short stature] When I was younger, definitely, I let it get to me.
I was a sullen kid who smoked cigarettes and wore black every day, and I,went to a school that was lacrosse players and Izods.
"Game of Thrones" (2011) is an amazing show, and I have no,problem speaking of the virtues of HBO.
What I really want is to play the romantic lead and get the girl.
I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.
I like playing the guy on the sidelines. They have more fun.
I was fortunate enough to have an upbringing that made me more accepting,of who I am.
Maybe everyone is a little too reassuring that things are going to be OK,to college graduates. It gives them a false sort of security.
I have a need to always make people laugh. I have a desperate need. I love a great sense of humor. The people I sort of surround myself with have that.
Women respond to comfort and a sense of humor. I was always able to make them laugh, so that helps a lot.
My mother was an elementary school teacher for 35 years and taught at the Nixon School in New Jersey. I was raised as a very liberal Democrat, and she was protesting Nixon when he was in office.
Animals used for food are treated like unfeeling machinery.
What I really want is to play the romantic lead and get the girl. .
