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Peter Dinklage

Peter Hayden Dinklage (; born June 11, 1969) is an American actor. Portraying 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 a Screen Actors Guild Award in 2020 for the role.

Born in the Jersey Shore region of New Jersey, Dinklage studied acting at Bennington College, performing in a number of amateur stage productions. He made his film debut in the black comedy film ''Living in Oblivion'' (1995), and 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), 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'', and 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 theater, 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. Provided by Wikipedia