Peter Hayden Dinklage (/ˈdɪnklɪdʒ/; born June 11, 1969) is an American actor. He portrayed Tyrion Lannister on the HBO television series Game of Thrones (2011–2019). He won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series a record four times. Dinklage also received a Golden Globe Award in 2011 and an  Actor Award in 2020 for the role. Born in the North Jersey region of New Jersey, Dinklage studied acting at Bennington College, performing in many amateur stage productions. He made his film debut in the black comedy film Living in Oblivion (1995). He had his breakthrough with a starring role in the 2003 comedy-drama The Station Agent. Dinklage's other films include Elf (2003), Lassie and The Baxter (both in 2005), Find Me Guilty (2006), Penelope (2006), Death at a Funeral (2007), The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008), Death at a Funeral (2010), X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023), The Thicket (2024), and Wicked (2024). In 2018, he appeared as Eitri in the Marvel film Avengers: Infinity War, and as Hervé Villechaize in the biopic film My Dinner with Hervé. Dinklage also provided voice acting for the video game Destiny. In 2023, he voiced Scourge in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. On television, Dinklage also starred in the series Dexter: Resurrection in 2025. Dinklage has also performed in theatre, with roles including the title character in Richard III (2003) at the Public Theatre, Rakitin in A Month in the Country (2015) at Classic Stage Company, and Cyrano de Bergerac in Cyrano at the Daryl Roth Theatre in 2019. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Dinklage, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2027Naughty — Santa Claus
• 2026Idiots — Karl 'Koko' Sandoz
• 2026Steps — Roderick (voice)
• 2026The Angry Birds Movie 3 — Mighty Eagle (voice)
• 2026Wicker — Basket Weaver
• 2025Change, Not Charity: The Americans with Disabilities Act — Narrator
• Dexter: Resurrection — Leon Prater
• 2025Roofman — Mitch
• The Lowdown — Wendell
• 2025The Toxic Avenger Unrated — Winston / Toxie, the Hero
• 2025Twelfth Night — Malvolio
• 2024Brothers — Jady Munger, Producer
• 2024The Thicket — Reginald Jones, Producer
• 2024Unfrosted — Harry Friendly
• 2024Wicked — Dr. Dillamond (voice)
• How to Become a Cult Leader — Narrator (voice), Executive Producer
• How to Become a Mob Boss — Self - Narrator (voice), Executive Producer
• 2023She Came to Me — Steven Lauddem
• 2023The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes — Dean Casca Highbottom
• 2023Transformers: Rise of the Beasts — Scourge (voice)
• 2022American Dreamer — Phil Loder, Producer
• 2021Cyrano — Cyrano de Bergerac
• 2021Dear Diary: World's First Pranks — Phil Betterman (voice)
• How to Become a Tyrant — Self - Narrator (voice), Executive Producer
• 2021I Care a Lot — Roman Lunyov
• Marvel Studios Legends — Eitri the Dwarf (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2020The Croods: A New Age — Phil Betterman (voice)
• 2019Between Two Ferns: The Movie — Peter Dinklage
• 2019The Angry Birds Movie 2 — Mighty Eagle (voice)
• 2018Avengers: Infinity War — Eitri
• 2018I Think We're Alone Now — Del, Producer
• 2018My Dinner with Hervé — Hervé Villechaize, Executive Producer
• 2017Rememory — Sam Bloom
• 2017The David S. Pumpkins Halloween Special — Narrator / Adult Kevin (voice)
• 2017Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri — James
• 2017Three Christs — Joseph
• 2016The Angry Birds Movie — Mighty Eagle (voice), Songs
• 2016The Boss — Renault
• 2015Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience — Tyrion Lannister
• 2015Game of Thrones: The Musical — Tyrion Lannister
• 2015Pixels — Eddie
• 2015Taxi — Marc
• 2014Knights of Badassdom — Hung, Executive Producer
• 2014Low Down — Alain
• 2014The Angriest Man in Brooklyn — Aaron Altmann
• 2014X-Men: Days of Future Past — Dr. Bolivar Trask
• 2013A Case of You — Gerard
• Rick and Morty — Chans (voice)
• 2012Ice Age: Continental Drift — Captain Gutt (voice)
• 2011A Little Bit of Heaven — Vinnie
• Game of Thrones — Tyrion 'The Halfman' Lannister
• 2011Scrat's Continental Crack-Up: Part 2 — Captain Gutt (voice)
• 2010Death at a Funeral — Frank
• 2010I Love You Too — Charlie
• 2010Pete Smalls Is Dead — K.C., Producer
• 2010Saint John of Las Vegas — Mr. Townsend
• 2010The Last Rites of Ransom Pride — dwarf
• 2008The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian — Trumpkin
• 2007Ascension Day
• 2007Death at a Funeral — Peter
• 2007Penelope — Lemon
• 2007Underdog — Dr. Simon Barsinister
• 30 Rock — Stewart
• 2006Find Me Guilty — Ben Klandis
• 2006Little Fugitive — Sam Norton
• 2006The Limbo Room — Dusty Spitz
• 2006Ultra — The Scientist
• 2005Fortunes — Mike Kirkwood
• 2005Ice Age Columbus: Who Were the First Americans? — Narrator
• 2005Lassie — Rowlie
• 2005The Baxter — Benson Hedges
• Threshold — Arthur Ramsey
• Entourage — Peter Dinklage
• Life As We Know It — Dr. Belber
• 2004Surviving Eden — Sterno
• 2003Elf — Miles Finch
• I'm with Her — Elliot Rosen
• Nip/Tuck — Marlowe Sawyer
• 2003The Station Agent — Finbar McBride
• 200213 Moons — Binky
• 2002Just a Kiss — Dink
• 2002Tiptoes — Maurice
• 2001Human Nature — Frank
• 2001Never Again — Harry Appleton
• The $treet — Little Person
• 1999Pigeonholed
• Third Watch — Drug Dealer
• 1998Safe Men — Leflore
• Oz — Murder Victim (uncredited)
• 1996Bullet — Building Manager
• 1995Living in Oblivion — Tito
• Great Performances — Malvolio
• Keith — Executive Producer
• Lear Rex — The Fool
• Lincoln in the Bardo
• The Dwarf — Producer
• The Reckoner — Producer

Appearances as themselves (17)

• Variety & CNN Actors on Actors — Self
• 2024Defying Gravity: The Curtain Rises on Wicked — Self
• 2024Making Wicked — Self
• 2024Predator or Prey: Making The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes — Self (Dean Casca Highbottom)
• 2019Game of Thrones: The Last Watch — Self
• 2018The Origins of Ebbing — Self
• Movies with Ali Plumb — Self
• Hot Ones — Self
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Guest
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self, Self - Guest
• Conan — Self
• 2008Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX — Self
• 2005Nobody Wants Your Film — Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Guest
• The Daily Show — Self
• MTV Movie & TV Awards — Self / Presenter
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Cameo (uncredited), Self - Host