Peter Dinklage American Actor Known for Game of Thrones

Peter Dinklage (11 June 1969, Morristown) is an American actor. His best-known titles on this site are Game of Thrones (2011) and X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014).

Early life

Schooling on record includes Bennington College and Delbarton School.

Career

His first listed screen credit dates to 1991, with Shadows and Fog. Work from the 1990s includes Living in Oblivion (1995) and Bullet (1996). Elf (2003) and The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008, as Trumpkin) are among his 2000s credits. In the 2010s, he appeared in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) and Avengers: Infinity War (2018, as Eitri). The 2020s brought The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2023) and Wicked (2024, as Doctor Dillamond).

The list below counts 50 films and 3 TV series from 1991 to 2026. Comedy is the most frequent genre among his listed titles (8), followed by action (6) and drama (6). His latest credit on record is Wicker (2026). Of his six titles with worldwide box-office figures on record, Avengers: Infinity War (2018) has the highest, at $2.05 billion.

Dave Bautista appears in two of his listed titles, including The Boss (2016). Other co-stars who recur in his credits are Zoe Saldaña (two titles) and Benedict Cumberbatch (two titles). Jon M. Chu directed two of his titles on record, among them Wicked: For Good (2025).

Peter Dinklage is also credited on one album, Wicked: The Soundtrack (2024). His other notable work includes Pixels and The Station Agent.

Recognition

Peter Dinklage’s wins include four Primetime Emmy Awards (2011, 2015, 2018 and 2019). Other wins include the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film (2012) for Game of Thrones and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series (2020) for Game of Thrones. His awards record shows 9 wins.

Personal life

He has been married to Erica Schmidt since 2005. He has 2 children on record.