Peter Dinklage born June 11, 1969 as Peter Hayden Dinklage in in Morristown, New Jersey is an American Actor and Producer who got his Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2011, and a Golden Globe Award for HBO Series Game Of Thrones as Tyrion Lannister. Dinklage is lapsed Catholic, vegetarian, animal rights activist and spokesman for Walk for Farm Animals and Peter Dinklage net worth is 10 million dollars.
In 2005 Peter Dinklage married theater director Erica Schmidt. Peter Dinklage wife had a peter dinklage daughter born in 2011. The family lives in New Paltz, New York. Peter Dinklage height is 4 ft 5 in (1.35m) tall.
During an interview he said that, growing up was difficult as i was different from others and while growing up i realized it was not my problem everyone is different and people like me have very different life than others. While at Golden Globe ceremony he said that he has accepted who he is but we need to create awareness among people as world does not need another angry dwarf.
Peter Dinklage was born with achondroplasia, a common form of dwarfism, graduated in 1987 from Delbarton School and attended Bennington College from where he started his acting career. After which he moved to New York to peruse his acting career.
Peter Dinklage movies and tv shows debut with Living in Oblivion (1995), movie about dwarfism along with Steve Buscemi and was later part of comedy movie 13 Moons (2002).
But he got his breakthrough from 2003 film The Station Agent for which he got his first Independent Spirit and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for Best Actor. During the time he also worked in several Off-Broadway productions. Starting from 2003 he worked with big Hollywood names like Will Ferrell in Elf and CBS science fiction Threshold.
In one episode of the HBO television series Entourage he appeared as himself and later in the NBC series 30 Rock. He started his acting career from 2007 British comedy movie, Death at a Funeral and later villainous Simon Bar Sinister in Underdog. In 2008 he worked in his wife’s directed movie Uncle Vanya.
But his global success started when he played the role of Tyrion Lannister in HBO’s Game of Thrones, which received praise widespread earning him his first Emmy Award For Outstanding Supporting Actor in Drama Series in 2011 and 2015 along with Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film in 2012.
After getting wide appreciation and increased screen time Peter Dinklage was the top billing actor in 2nd season of the show and at Late Show with David Letterman he tried to read the novel but ended up saying “George Martin, our author, is probably going to kill my character soon because I mentioned that.”
Peter Dinklage movies include voice of Captain Gutt in 2012 Ice Age: Continental Drift and played Bolivar Trask in famous superhero science fiction movie X-Men: Days of Future Past. In 2015 he starred alongside Adam Sandler in movie Pixels and was voice of Mighty Eagle in Angry Birds Movie. Peter Dinklage will be part of Marvel Studios film Avengers: Infinity War and Untitled Avengers film (2019).
Peter Dinklage Net Worth | Trivia | Body Measurements & Social Media
Birth date | 11-6-1969 |
Heritage/origin | American |
Religion – believes in god? | Lapsed Catholic |
Residence | New Paltz, New York |
Peter Dinklage Net Worth | 10 million Dollar |
Relationship status | Married (Since 2005) |
Sexuality | Straight |
Peter Dinklage Wife | Erica Schmidt |
Peter Dinklage Daughter | Zelig |
Has any kids? | Yes, one |
Peter Dinklage Height | 4 ft 5 in (135 cm) |
Hair color | Brown |
Eye color | Green |
Weight | 50 kg – 110 lbs |
Smoke | None |
Tattoo | None |
Peter Dinklage Twitter | none |