Peter Dinklage on screen and stage

Peter Dinklage is an American actor and producer. He studied acting at the Bennington College where he starred in a number of amateur stage productions.^[1] He made his film debut in the 1995 comedy-drama Living in Oblivion.^[2] After appearing in a series of supporting parts in much of the 1990s and early 2000s, he made his breakthrough by starring in the Tom McCarthy-directed comedy-drama The Station Agent (2003), which had him play a railroad-obsessed introvert who inherits an abandoned train depot.^[2] He was cast in the role by director Tom McCarthy who recalled fondly his appearance in McCarthy's play The Killing Act (1995).^[3] For his performance, he received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Best Actor and an Independent Spirit Awards nomination for Best Male Lead.^[4][5] In the same year, Dinklage played the title role in the play Richard III at The Public Theater. He also played a children's book author in the comedy Elf.^[6] In 2006, he appeared in the Sidney Lumet-directed crime film Find Me Guilty.^[7] He followed with roles in the films Underdog (2007), the British film Death at a Funeral (2007), with its American remake of the same name (2010) and Trumpkin in the high fantasy film The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008).^[8][9]

Dinklage attending the 69th Annual Golden Globes Awards in 2012

He gained international recognition in 2011 with the HBO fantasy drama series Game of Thrones for his portrayal of Tyrion Lannister.^[10] As of 2019, Dinklage has received consecutive Primetime Emmy nominations from 2011 to 2019 including four wins for the role as well as one Golden Globe Award.^[11][12] In 2017, Dinklage became one of the highest paid actors on television and earned £2 million per episode of Game of Thrones.^[13][14]

Dinklage provided the voice of Captain Gutt in the 2012 animated comedy Ice Age: Continental Drift,^[15] which earned over $877 million—his highest grossing release until Avengers: Infinity War (2018) which grossed over $2 billion.^[16][17] In 2014, he played supervillain Bolivar Trask in the superhero film X-Men: Days of Future Past.^[18] The same year, he voiced Ghost in the video game Destiny, but was later replaced by Nolan North.^[19] He then starred in the comedy Pixels (2015), The Boss (2016) and the animated comedy The Angry Birds Movie (2016).^[20][21][22]

Film

Year	Title	Role	Director(s)	Notes	Ref(s)
1995	Living in Oblivion	Tito	Tom DiCillo		[2][23][24]
1996	Bullet	Building Manager	Julien Temple	Uncredited	[25]
1998	Safe Men	Leflore	John Hamburg		[26][27]
1999	Pigeonholed	Roy	Michael Swanhaus		[25]
2001	Never Again	Harry Appleton	Eric Schaeffer		[28][29]
	Human Nature	Dr. Frank Edelstein	Michel Gondry		[8][30][31]
2002	13 Moons	Binky	Alexandre Rockwell		[2][32]
	Just a Kiss	Dink	Fisher Stevens		[33]
2003	The Station Agent	Finbar McBride	Tom McCarthy		[2][34][35]
	Tiptoes	Maurice	Matthew Bright		[2][36]
	Elf	Miles Finch	Jon Favreau		[6][37][38]
2004	89 Seconds at Alcázar	Mari Babola	Eve Sussman	Short film	[39]
	Jail Bait	Lindo	Ben Sainsbury		[8][40]
	Surviving Eden	Sterno	Greg Pritikin		[8][41]
2005	The Baxter	Benson Hedges	Michael Showalter		[42]
	Escape Artists	Mr. Duff	Michael Laurence		[43][44]
	Lassie	Rowlie	Charles Sturridge		[8][45]
	Fortunes	Mike Kirkwood	Parker Cross		[46][47]
2006	The Limbo Room	Dusty Spitz	Debra Eisenstadt		[48]
	Find Me Guilty	Ben Klandis	Sidney Lumet		[7][49]
	Little Fugitive	Sam Norton	Joanna Lipper		[8][50][51]
	Penelope	Lemon	Mark Palansky		[52]
2007	Ascension Day	Brantly	Akosua Busia		[25]
	Death at a Funeral	Peter	Frank Oz		[8][53]
	Underdog	Simon Bar Sinister	Frederik Du Chau		[8][54]
2008	The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian	Trumpkin	Andrew Adamson		[2][55]
2009	Saint John of Las Vegas	Mr. Townsend	Hue Rhodes		[56]
2010	Death at a Funeral	Frank	Neil LaBute		[8][57]
	I Love You Too	Charlie	Daina Reid		[58]
	The Last Rites of Ransom Pride	Dwarf	Tiller Russell		[59]
	Pete Smalls Is Dead	K.C. Munk	Alexandre Rockwell	Also producer	[2][60]
2011	A Little Bit of Heaven	Vinnie	Nicole Kassell		[61]
2012	Ice Age: Continental Drift	Captain Gutt	Steve Martino & Mike Thurmeier	Voice	[15][62]
2013	A Case of You	Gerard	Kat Coiro		[2][63]
	Knights of Badassdom	Hung	Joe Lynch	Also executive producer	[64][65][66]
2014	Low Down	Alain	Jeff Preiss		[67][68][69]
	X-Men: Days of Future Past	Bolivar Trask	Bryan Singer		[18][70][71]
	The Angriest Man in Brooklyn	Aaron Altmann	Phil Alden Robinson		[72][73]
2015	Taxi [de]	Marc	Kerstin Ahlrichs [de]		[74]
	Pixels	Eddy Plant	Chris Columbus		[20][75]
2016	The Boss	Renault	Ben Falcone		[21][76]
	The Angry Birds Movie	Mighty Eagle	Clay Kaytis & Fergal Reilly	Voice	[22][77]
2017	Rememory	Sam Bloom	Mark Palansky		[78]
	La Vida Nuestra	Chad Johnson	Raúl Arévalo	Short film	[79]
	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	James	Martin McDonagh		[80]
	Three Christs	Joseph	Jon Avnet		[81][82]
2018	I Think We're Alone Now	Del	Reed Morano	Also producer	[83]
	Avengers: Infinity War	Eitri	Anthony and Joe Russo		[84]
2019	The Angry Birds Movie 2	Mighty Eagle	Thurop Van Orman	Voice	[85]
	Between Two Ferns: The Movie	Himself	Scott Aukerman	Cameo	[86]
2020	I Care a Lot	Roman Lynov	J Blakeson		[87]
	The Croods: A New Age	Phil Betterman	Joel Crawford	Voice	[88]
2021	Cyrano	Cyrano de Bergerac	Joe Wright		[89]
2022	American Dreamer	Dr. Phil Loder	Paul Dektor	Also producer	[90]
	Thor: Love and Thunder	Eitri	Taika Waititi	Deleted scenes	[91]
2023	She Came to Me	Steven Lauddem	Rebecca Miller		[92]
	Transformers: Rise of the Beasts	Scourge	Steven Caple Jr.	Voice	[93]
	The Toxic Avenger	Winston Gooze / The Toxic Avenger	Macon Blair		[94]
	The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes	Casca Highbottom	Francis Lawrence		[95]
2024	Unfrosted	Harry Friendly	Jerry Seinfeld	Cameo	[96]
	The Thicket	Reginald Jones	Elliott Lester	Also producer	[97]
	Brothers	Jady Munger	Max Barbakow	Also producer	[98]
	Wicked	Doctor Dillamond	Jon M. Chu	Voice	[99]
2025	Roofman †	TBA	Derek Cianfrance	Post-production
	Wicked: For Good †	Doctor Dillamond	Jon M. Chu	Voice; post-production	[100]
TBA	Lear Rex †	The Fool	Bernard Rose	Post-production	[101]

Key

†	Denotes films that have not yet been released

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2001	Oz	Murder Victim	Episode: "Even the Score" (Uncredited)	[102]
	The $treet	Little Person	Episode: "Junk Bonds"	[102]
2002	Third Watch	Drug Dealer	Episode: "The Long Guns"	[102]
2004	I'm with Her	Elliot Rosen	3 episodes	[102]
	P.O.V.	Narrator	Voice, documentary Episode: "Freedom Machines"	[103]
2005	Life as We Know It	Dr. Belber	2 episodes	[102]
	Entourage	Himself	Episode: "The Sundance Kids"	[102]
	Testing Bob	Robinson "Bob" Hart	Pilot	[104]
	Celebrity Poker Showdown	Himself	Sixth tournament	[102]
2005–2006	Threshold	Arthur Ramsey	13 episodes	[102]
2006	Ultra	—	Pilot	[105]
	P.O.V.	Himself	Episode: "No Bigger than a Minute"	[106]
	Nip/Tuck	Marlowe Sawyer	7 episodes	[102]
2009	30 Rock	Stewart LaGrange	Episode: "Señor Macho Solo"	[107]
2011–2019	Game of Thrones	Tyrion Lannister	67 episodes	[108]
2013	Saturday Night Live	Peter Drunklage	Episode: "Melissa McCarthy/Phoenix"	[102]
	Sesame Street	Simon	Episode: "Simon Says"	[109]
2014	Mini Monsters	Narrator	Television special	[110]
2016	Saturday Night Live	Himself (host)	Episode: "Peter Dinklage/Gwen Stefani"	[111]
2017	The David S. Pumpkins Animated Halloween Special	Narrator / Adult Kevin	Voice, television special	[112]
2018	My Dinner with Hervé	Hervé Villechaize	Television film; also executive producer	[113]
2021	How to Become a Tyrant	Narrator	Voice, 6 episodes; also executive producer	[114]
2022	Rick and Morty	Chans	Voice, episode: "Rick: A Mort Well Lived"	[115]
2023	How to Become a Cult Leader	Narrator	Voice, 6 episodes; also executive producer
	How to Become a Mob Boss
2025	Dexter: Resurrection	Leon Prater	Series regular	[116]

Key

†	Denotes shows that have not yet been released

Theater

Year	Title	Role	Venue	Ref.
1995	The Killing Act	Tom Thumb	Access Theatre	[117]
2000	Imperfect Love	The Beppo	New York Performance Works	[118][119]
2002	Evolution	Rex	Bleecker Street Theatre	[120]
2003	Richard III	Richard III	The Public Theater	[2]
2005	Hope Leaves the Theatre	Various roles	St. Ann's Warehouse	[121]
2007	Things We Want	Sty	Acorn Theater	[122]
2015	A Month in the Country	Rakitin	Classic Stage Company	[123]
2018	Cyrano	Cyrano	Terris Theatre	[124]
2019			Daryl Roth Theatre	[125]

Audio plays

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2019	Heads Will Roll	Prince Albert	Audible original
2024	The Mysterious Affair at Styles	Hercule Poirot	Audible original[126]

Video games

Year	Title	Voice role	Notes	Ref.
2012	Ice Age: Continental Drift – Arctic Games	Captain Gutt		[127]
2014	Destiny	Ghost		[19]
	Game of Thrones	Tyrion Lannister		[128]

See also

• List of awards and nominations received by Peter Dinklage