American actor and a film producer, who received universal acclaim for portraying Tyrion Lannister on the HBO television series Game of Thrones (20110-2019), for which he won a record four Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (2011, 2015, 2018, 2019). He also received a Golden Globe for the role in 2011.
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), 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.
In 2005, Dinklage married Erica Schmidt, a theater director. They have a daughter, born in 2011, and a second child born in 2017.
Dinklage’s face was injured in the early 1990s, when he was in a “punk-funk-rap” band called Whizzy. While performing, he was accidentally kneed in the face, giving him a scar that runs from his neck to his eyebrow.
Dinklage has been a vegetarian since the age of 16, and he remains an advocate for animal rights.
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