<Tr> <Th> Awards </Th> <Td> Full list </Td> </Tr> <P> Peter Hayden Dinklage (/ ˈdɪŋklɪdʒ /; born June 11, 1969) is an American actor and film producer . Dinklage studied acting at Bennington College, starring in a number of amateur stage productions . His film debut was in Living in Oblivion (1995) and his breakthrough came with the comedy - drama The Station Agent (2003). He has since appeared in Elf (2003), Find Me Guilty (2006), Underdog (2007), Penelope (2008), The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008), X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), which earned him his first Screen Actors Guild Award, and Avengers: Infinity War (2018). </P> <P> Since 2011, Dinklage has portrayed Tyrion Lannister in the HBO series Game of Thrones, for which he received the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2011 and 2015, as well as consecutive Emmy nominations from 2011 to 2016 . He also won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor--Series, Miniseries or Television Film in 2012 . </P> <P> Peter Hayden Dinklage was born on June 11, 1969, in Morristown, New Jersey, to John Carl Dinklage, an insurance salesman, and Diane Dinklage, an elementary - school music teacher . He was born with achondroplasia, a common form of dwarfism . Dinklage grew up as the only dwarf in his family in Brookside, New Jersey, with his parents and older brother, Jonathan . He is of German and Irish descent . As a child, Dinklage and his brother performed puppet musicals for people in their neighborhood . Dinklage has described his brother, who is a violinist, as being the "real performer of the family," saying that his brother's passion for the violin was the only thing that kept him from pursuing acting . </P>

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