Peter Dinklage
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Morristown, New Jersey, USA
Standing four feet five inches tall, actor Peter Dinklage has had a prolific career both on-stage and in film. After graduating from college in Vermont, he studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London and the Welsh School of Music and Drama in Wales. He worked in several productions off-Broadway and wrote his own play entitled Frog. He made his film debut in Tom DiCillo's 1995 independent comedy Living in Oblivion as the dwarf in the dream sequence. He then appeared in Safe Men, Bullet, Never Again, and Just a Kiss before returning to independent comedies. In 2001 he had a substantial role in Michel Gondry's Human Nature, written by Charlie Kaufman. In 2002, he played Binky, the sidekick to the clown Bananas played by Steve Buscemi in Alexandre Rockwell's 13 Moons. His first starring film role was in Tom McCarthy's The Station Agent as Finbar McBride, a lonely misfit who shacks up in an abandoned railway depot. Also starring Patricia Clarkson and Bobby Cannavale, the film won festival acclaim at Sundance. In 2003, Dinklage can be seen in both the Lincoln Center production of Toulouse Lautrec and the Jon Favreau holiday comedy Elf starring Will Ferrell. After a supporting role in The Baxter found Dinklage appearing in one of the year's most off-beat romantic comedies, and the sci fi television series Threshold afforded him the opportunity to appear alongside Star Trek: The Next Generation star Brent Spiner, Dinklage would next share the screen with the most popular canine in film and television history in the 2006 family-oriented adventure Lassie. In 2005, Dinklage took on a starring role in Threshold, a short-lived science fiction series from CBS, and joined the cast of filmmaker Michael Showalter's comedy The Baxter, in which he played a wedding planner. The following year the actor would make waves in Ryan Murphy's highly sexed drama Nip/Tuck. After appearing in a variety of television roles (including a stint playing himself on HBO's popular series entourage) Dinklage once again teamed with HBO to join the cast of Game of Thrones. This proved a fateful decision on his part, as the adaptation of George R. R. Martin's popular series of novels would become wildly successful, in no small part due to Dinklage's portrayal of Tyrion Lannister, the "imp" whose political savvy and brilliant mind allow him to thrive in a world that is less than kind to those it perceives as physically limited. The role led to an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries or Television Film in 2012.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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80% | I Care a Lot |
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— | 2021 |
77% | The Croods: A New Age |
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— | 2020 |
44% | Three Christs |
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— | 2020 |
73% | The Angry Birds Movie 2 |
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— | 2019 |
74% | Between Two Ferns: The Movie |
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— | 2019 |
63% | I Think We're Alone Now |
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— | 2018 |
85% | Avengers: Infinity War |
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$665M | 2018 |
83% | My Dinner with Hervé |
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— | 2018 |
90% | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri |
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$52.1M | 2017 |
25% | Rememory |
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— | 2017 |
43% | The Angry Birds Movie |
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$107.6M | 2016 |
21% | The Boss |
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$54.5M | 2016 |
96% | Jafar Panahi's Taxi |
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$0.4M | 2015 |
17% | Pixels |
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$66.5M | 2015 |
No Score Yet | X-Men: Days of Future Past: Mutant Vs. Machine |
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— | 2015 |
49% | Low Down |
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— | 2014 |
9% | The Angriest Man in Brooklyn |
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— | 2014 |
90% | X-Men: Days of Future Past |
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$199.4M | 2014 |
63% | Knights of Badassdom |
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— | 2014 |
No Score Yet | X-Men: Days of Future Past (Rogue Cut) |
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— | 2014 |
47% | A Case of You |
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— | 2013 |
37% | Ice Age: Continental Drift |
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$161.4M | 2012 |
4% | A Little Bit Of Heaven |
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$0.5M | 2012 |
No Score Yet | Pete Smalls is Dead |
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— | 2011 |
No Score Yet | The Last Rites of Ransom Pride |
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— | 2010 |
43% | Death at a Funeral |
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$16.1M | 2010 |
25% | Saint John of Las Vegas |
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$72.7k | 2010 |
54% | I Love You Too |
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$0.9M | 2009 |
66% | The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian |
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$141.7M | 2008 |
62% | Death at a Funeral |
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$8.5M | 2007 |
16% | Underdog |
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$43.8M | 2007 |
53% | Penelope |
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$10.1M | 2006 |
93% | Lassie |
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$0.6M | 2006 |
No Score Yet | Little Fugitive |
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— | 2006 |
62% | Find Me Guilty |
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$0.7M | 2006 |
No Score Yet | The Limbo Room |
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— | 2006 |
32% | The Baxter |
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— | 2005 |
No Score Yet | Escape Artists |
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— | 2005 |
No Score Yet | Nobody Wants Your Film |
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— | 2005 |
15% | Surviving Eden |
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— | 2004 |
20% | Tiptoes |
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— | 2004 |
85% | Elf |
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$173.4M | 2003 |
94% | The Station Agent |
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— | 2003 |
18% | Just a Kiss |
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— | 2002 |
31% | Never Again |
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$0.2M | 2002 |
49% | Human Nature |
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$0.7M | 2002 |
No Score Yet | 13 Moons |
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— | 2002 |
57% | Safe Men |
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— | 1998 |
88% | Living in Oblivion |
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— | 1995 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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89% |
Game of Thrones
2011-2019
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No Score Yet |
Jimmy Kimmel Live
2003
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No Score Yet |
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
2015
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No Score Yet |
Saturday Night Live
1975
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No Score Yet |
Family Guy
1999
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No Score Yet |
Late Show With David Letterman
1993-2015
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No Score Yet |
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
1999-2015
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78% |
30 Rock
2006-2020
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75% |
Nip/Tuck
2003-2009
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66% |
Entourage
2004-2011
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73% |
Life as We Know It
2004-2005
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44% |
Threshold
2005
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58% |
I'm With Her
2003-2004
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No Score Yet |
POV
1988
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No Score Yet |
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno
1992-2014
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Quotes from Peter Dinklage's Characters
The Mighty Eagle: | I see all, and know all!... What are your names? |
The Mighty Eagle: | I see all, and know all! What are your names? |
Eddie "The Fire Blaster" Plant: | I made your game my bitch. |
Eddie "The Fire Blaster" Plant: | Guards, get me outta here! It's that mean Centipede killer! I hope he don't zap me with his space gun! |
Sam Brenner: | How are you, Eddie? |
Eddie "The Fire Blaster" Plant: | Sup, Second Place? Oh, and your sidekick here! Presidonut! I didn't know you could have an approval rating so "catatastrophic!" |
Bolivar Trask: | I call them sentinels. |
Aaron Altmann: | The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well. |
Sam: | Hey, Gerard, what's another word for "smitten"? |
Gerard: | Horny. |
Vinnie: | I definitely live up to my nickname - little bit of heaven |
Miles Finch: | Call me elf one more time. |
Buddy: | He's an angry elf. |
Ben Klandis: | A laughing jury is not a hanging jury. |
Giacomo "Jackie Dee" DiNorscio: | This time I take care of me myself. |
Ben Klandis: | That's the problem. |
Mr. Townsend: | Do you know what's most important to me? Do you? |
John: | No sir. |
Mr. Townsend: | Family, family is the most important thing. Don't you think? |
John: | Sure. |
Mr. Townsend: | Do you have a family? |
John: | No. |
Mr. Townsend: | Then why did you agree with me? |
Joe Oramas: | Let me ask you a question Fin. Do you people have clubs? |
Finbar McBride: | What do you mean? |
Joe Oramas: | You know, like a "train of the month" club. |
Finbar McBride: | Yeah there are clubs. |
Joe Oramas: | I'm Joe Oramas, what's your name? |
Finbar McBride: | Fin. |
Joe Oramas: | Fin? |
Finbar McBride: | Yeah. |
Joe Oramas: | Cool. |
Louis Tiboni: | You ever been out to this part of New Jersey? |
Finbar McBride: | No. |
Louis Tiboni: | I drove through it once. Let me tell you. I mean, it's pretty, but there's nothing out there. Nothing. |
Captain Gutt: | Grab your weapons, mates! Not the spoon, Flynn. |
Captain Gutt: | You shouldn't have messed with the Master of the Seas! |
Captain Gutt: | Told ya chubby, you shouldn't have messed with the master of the seas! |
Captain Gutt: | Surrender you ship, or face my fury! |
Sid: | Or face your furry what? |
Captain Gutt: | Not furry. FURY! |
K.C. Monk: | Too bad about Len and Bernie. They are the only people I knew who got arrested trying to break into Mexico. |
Jack: | Remember, I have eyes in the back of my head. |
K.C. Monk: | Too bad. You must fall down a lot. |
Manny: | What do you want? |
Captain Gutt: | I bet you're feeling lost, scared, confused. Allow me to explain. [To his pirates] Help me out, folks! |
Captain Gutt: | Help me out, folks. |
Captain Gutt: | I bet you're feeling lost. Scared! Confused! Allow me to explain! |
Captain Gutt: | Nothin' gets by you, does it? |
Flynn: | HELP!! We're all going to drown! |
Captain Gutt: | Your a water animal...you can swim. |
Flynn: | ohh...Thank You so much! |
Trumpkin the Dwarf: | Oh.. you've got to be kidding me! You're it?.. You're the Kings and Queens of old. |
Trumpkin the Dwarf: | Oh.. you've got to be kidding me! You're it? You're the Kings and Queens of old. |
Peter Pevensie: | High King Peter, the Magnificent. |
Susan Pevensie: | You could probably left the last bit. |
Trumpkin the Dwarf: | (Laughs) Probably.. |
Trumpkin the Dwarf: | [laughs] Probably.. |
Lucy Pevensie: | Why are they trying to kill you anyway? |
Trumpkin the Dwarf: | They're Telmarines. That's what they do. |
Edmund Pevensie: | Telmarines?.. In Narnina?.. |
Edmund Pevensie: | Telmarines? In Narnina? |
Trumpkin the Dwarf: | Where have you been for the last few hundred years? |
Lucy Pevensie: | Its a bit of a long story. |
Trumpkin the Dwarf: | Drop him?!? That's the best you can come up with?! |
Trumpkin the Dwarf: | Drop him? That's the best you can come up with? |
Susan Pevensie: | A simple thank you would suffice. |
Trumpkin the Dwarf: | They were doing fine drowning me without your help! |
Peter Pevensie: | Maybe we should have let them. |
Tito: | Have you ever had a dream with a dwarf in it? Do you know anyone who's had a dream with a dwarf in it? No! I don't even have dreams with dwarves in them. The only place I've seen dwarves in dreams is in stupid movies like this! "Oh make it weird, put a dwarf in it!". Everyone will go "Woah, this must be a fuckin' dream, there's a fuckin' dwarf in it!". Well I'm sick of it! You can take this dream sequence and stick it up your ass! |
Tito: | Have you ever had a dream with a dwarf in it? Do you know anyone who's had a dream with a dwarf in it? No! I don't even have dreams with dwarves in them. The only place I've seen dwarves in dreams is in stupid movies like this! 'Oh make it weird, put a dwarf in it!'. Everyone will go 'Woah, this must be a fuckin' dream, there's a fuckin' dwarf in it!'. Well I'm sick of it! You can take this dream sequence and stick it up your ass! |
Buddy: | Did you have to borrow a reindeer to get down here? |
Miles Finch: | Hey, jackweed, I get more action in a week than you've had in your entire life. I've got houses in L.A., Paris and Vail. In each one, a 70 inch plasma screen. So I suggest you wipe that stupid smile off your face before I come over there and SMACK it off! You feeling strong, my friend? Call me elf one more time. |
Miles Finch: | Hey, jackweed, I get more action in a week than you've had in your entire life. I've got houses in L.A., Paris and Vail. In each one, a 70 inch plasma screen. So I suggest you wipe that stupid smile off your face before I come over there and smack it off! You feeling strong, my friend? Call me elf one more time. |
Buddy: | He's an angry elf. |
Buddy: | He must be a South Pole elf. |