Celebrity Biographies
Peter Dinklage
There is no small actor. They assured him early in his career that the spectrum of roles he could aspire to was very narrow. But based on work and willpower, Peter Dinklage has not stopped surprising the public time and time again. With his role as Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones, he garners true fans ‘worldwide’.
Born in Morristown (New Jersey, United States), on June 11, 1969, Peter Hayden Dinklage is the son of a music teacher and an insurance salesman. He was born with achondroplasia, a genetic disorder that affects bone growth, but he has overcome any complexes about his short stature over time. “When I was young, it definitely affected me. As a teenager, I would get bitter and angry. But as you get older, you realize that you just have to have a sense of humor. You know it’s not your problem, it’s theirs, “has explained the actor.
He graduated from Delbarton School, where he took his first steps as an actor, and studied drama at Benington College. He began his career in the theater, in productions of works such as “Ricardo III”, by William Shakespeare.Live Rolling , by Tom DiCillo, where he drew a lot of attention as an actor frustrated because dwarfs are caricatured in the movies.
Although he did not leave the theater – above all he is a regular on the off-Broadway circuit – his presence on the big screen became more and more frequent. He came into his own when he played the lead in Thomas McCarthy’s Crossroads , where he does his best work, as a guy going into exile in an abandoned train station he’s just inherited, where he pretends to lead an almost hermit’s life.
Married in 2005 to Erica Schmidt, a theater director, Dinklage has played various supporting roles on screen. He was a children’s story writer in Elf , a lawyer in Find Me Guilty, a villain inSuperdog , and Trumpkin, the character who leads the young protagonists to help the deposed heir to the throne in The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian .
He demonstrated his talent for comedy in the hilarious British production A Deadly Funeral, where he played a mysterious individual who claimed to know the deceased very closely. He was the only one of the original cast who repeated in the deteriorated American version.
In addition, Peter Dinklage has had outstanding participations in the Nip / Tuck series: at the stroke of a scalpel and Rockefeller Plaza. But his greatest joys on the small screen have been reaped thanks to Tyrion Lannister, an intelligent sharp-tongued nobleman, reviled even by his father for being a dwarf, and because he caused his mother’s death by born. He is undoubtedly one of the most charismatic characters in the adaptation of George RR Martin’s work. For his work he has won an Emmy and a Golden Globe that the actor dedicated to Martin Henderson, an unknown person who also suffers from dwarfism, and who for this reason was attacked by a group of drunks.
It seems that Dinklage has carved out a promising future for himself thanks to his efforts. He has shot Knights of Badassdom , in which a group of role-players accidentally summon a demon.