Filmography
Dinklage attending the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival in 2023 Peter Dinklage is an American actor and producer. He studied acting at the Bennington College where he starred in a number of amateur stage productions. [ 1] He made his film debut in the 1995 comedy-drama Living in Oblivion . [ 2] After appearing in a series of supporting parts in much of the 1990s and early 2000s, he made his breakthrough by starring in the Tom McCarthy -directed comedy-drama The Station Agent (2003), which had him play a railroad-obsessed introvert who inherits an abandoned train depot. [ 2] He was cast in the role by director Tom McCarthy who recalled fondly his appearance in McCarthy's play The Killing Act (1995). [ 3] For his performance, he received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Best Actor and an Independent Spirit Awards nomination for Best Male Lead . [ 4] [ 5] In the same year, Dinklage played the title role in the play Richard III at The Public Theater . He also played a children's book author in the comedy Elf . [ 6] In 2006, he appeared in the Sidney Lumet -directed crime film Find Me Guilty . [ 7] He followed with roles in the films Underdog (2007), the British film Death at a Funeral (2007), with its American remake of the same name (2010) and Trumpkin in the high fantasy film The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008). [ 8] [ 9]
He gained international recognition in 2011 with the HBO fantasy drama series Game of Thrones for his portrayal of Tyrion Lannister . [ 10] As of 2019, Dinklage has received consecutive Primetime Emmy nominations from 2011 to 2019 including four wins for the role as well as one Golden Globe Award . [ 11] [ 12] In 2017, Dinklage became one of the highest paid actors on television and earned £2 million per episode of Game of Thrones . [ 13] [ 14]
Dinklage provided the voice of Captain Gutt in the 2012 animated comedy Ice Age: Continental Drift , [ 15] which earned over $877 million—his highest grossing release until Avengers: Infinity War (2018) which grossed over $2 billion. [ 16] [ 17] In 2014, he played supervillain Bolivar Trask in the superhero film X-Men: Days of Future Past . [ 18] The same year, he voiced Ghost in the video game Destiny , but was later replaced by Nolan North . [ 19] He then starred in the comedy Pixels (2015), The Boss (2016) and the animated comedy The Angry Birds Movie (2016). [ 20] [ 21] [ 22]
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