Peter Dinklage

Peter Hayden Dinklage ( born June 11, 1969 in Morristown, New Jersey) is an American film and theater actor.

Life

Peter Dinklage is the younger of two sons of an insurance agent and a music teacher at an elementary school. He has achondroplasia, a form of dwarfism in which the body is fully formed, but arm and leg bones are shortened. Dinklage has a size of 135 cm, in contrast to his older brother John and his parents, who have an average body size.

Dinklage is of Irish and German descent. His German ancestors can be traced back to the Lords of Dincklage. In the course of the Second World War raged, the German hostility in the U.S., and his family put the "of" in the name additive.

Dinklage attended Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont, which he left in 1991 with a degree in dramatic arts. He then moved to London and graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Dinklage also studied at the Welsh School of Music and Drama in Cardiff.

1995 debuted Dinklage as a film actor in the drama film Living in Oblivion by Tom DiCillo. He was always able to get television and film roles. A wider audience, he became known for his starring role in The Station Agent ( 2003). In addition, he worked between 2005 and 2006 in 13 episodes of Nemesis - The attack and was seven times in Nip / Tuck 2006 - to see its price has beauty.

2008 Dinklage was in The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, the second film, The Chronicles of Narnia, for the first time represented in a blockbuster movie. Since 2011, HBO, he plays the role of Tyrion Lannister in the U.S. series Game of Thrones. He received an Emmy in 2011 for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series and the 2012 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in series or TV movie. His current project is the movie Knights of Badassdom.

In February 2013 it was announced by director Bryan Singer that Dinklage a role in the sequel to X -Men: First Class will take over. In April 2014 Peter Dinklage turns in Hamburg the movie " Taxi", the film adaptation of the novel by Karen Duve. He plays there the second major role.

Personal

In November 2004, Dinklage announced his engagement to the theater director Erica Schmidt, whom he married on 15 April 2005. 2011 was their daughter to the world. Dinklage is a vegetarian and was elected in 2012 by PETA as one of the "Sexiest Vegetarian Celebrities".

Filmography (selection)

Movies

TV series

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