Peter Dinklage

Peter Dinklage is an American actor. Since his breakout role in O Agente da Estação (2003), he has appeared in numerous films and theater plays. Since 2011, Dinklage has portrayed Tyrion Lannister in the HBO series Game of Thrones (2011). For this role, he won an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (four times) and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries or Television Film in 2011.

Peter Hayden Dinklage was born in Morristown, New Jersey, to Diane (Hayden), an elementary school teacher, and John Carl Dinklage, an insurance salesman. He is of German, Irish, and English descent. In 1991, he received a degree in drama from Bennington College and began his career. His exquisite theater work, which brilliantly expresses the unique range of his acting qualities, includes remarkable performances full of profundity, charisma, intelligence, sensation, and insights in such plays as "The Killing Act," "Imperfect Love," and Ivan Turgenev's "A Month in the Country," as well as the title roles in William Shakespeare's "Richard III" and in Anton Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya."

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Peter Dinklage received acclaim for his first film, Vivendo no Abandono (1995), in which he played an actor frustrated with the limited and caricatured roles offered to actors who have dwarfism. In 2003, he starred in O Agente da Estação (2003), written and directed by Tom McCarthy. The movie received critical praise as did Dinklage's work, including nominations for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role at the Screen Actors Guild and Best Male Lead at the Film Independent Spirit Awards. One of his next roles was as Miles Finch, an acclaimed children's book author, in Um Duende em Nova York (2003). Sob Suspeita (2006), the original English Morte no Funeral (2007), its American remake Morte no Funeral (2010), Penelope (2006), As Crônicas de Nárnia: Príncipe Caspian (2008), and X-Men: Dias de um Futuro Esquecido (2014) are also included in his brilliant work concerning feature films.

Dinklage's fine work in television also includes such shows as Entourage: Fama & Amizade (2004), Life as We Know It (2004), Primeiro Contato (2005), and Estética (2003). In 2011, the primary role of Tyrion Lannister, a man of sharp wit and bright spirit, in Game of Thrones (2011) was incarnated with unique greatness in Dinklage's unparalleled performance. The series is an adaptation of author George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, and Dinklage's work in it has received widespread praise, highlighted by his receiving of the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series at The 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards (2011), The 67th Primetime Emmy Awards (2015), The 70th Primetime Emmy Awards (2018), and The 71st Primetime Emmy Awards (2019), as well as of the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television.

Dinklage has voiced, among other characters, Captain Gutt in A Era do Gelo 4 (2012) and the Mighty Eagle in Angry Birds: O Filme (2016), and starred in the comedy horror film Um Jogo Legendário (2013) while his tour de force interpretations as a multifarious chameleon of substantial mastery and artistic generosity also include film and TV gems such as Três Anúncios para um Crime (2017), Três Cristos (2017), and Agora Estamos Sozinhos (2018).

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