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Peter Dinklage is an American actor and producer who made his film debut in the 1995 comedy-drama Living in Oblivion. Dinklage has appeared in numerous films, television shows as well as on stage during his career. 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), for which he received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Best Actor. The following year, he played the role of Miles Finch in the comedy Elf. In 2006, he appeared in the Sidney Lumet-directed crime film Find Me Guilty. 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).
In 2011, Dinklage played a role in the romantic comedy A Little Bit of Heaven. He gained international recognition with the HBO series Game of Thrones, in which he portrays Tyrion Lannister, a role he has been playing since 2011. He won an Emmy and a Golden Globe Award for Supporting Actor in 2011, as well as the consecutive Primetime Emmy nominations for the role from 2011 to 2016, and another Emmy win in 2015. In 2017, Dinklage became one of the highest paid actors on television and earned US$1.1 million per episode of Game of Thrones.
Dinklage provided the voice of Captain Gutt in the 2012 computer-animated comedy Ice Age: Continental Drift, which earned over $877 million to become his highest-grossing release. In 2014, he played Bolivar Trask in the superhero film X-Men: Days of Future Past. The same year, he voiced Ghost in the video game Destiny, but was later replaced by Nolan North. He then starred in the comedy Pixels (2015), The Boss (2016) and the computer-animated comedy The Angry Birds Movie (2016). In 2017, Dinklage was cast in the 2018 Marvel Studios film Avengers: Infinity War, a role he will later reprised in Untitled Avengers film (2019).
Dinklage has also appeared in a numerous stage productions, both Broadway and off-Broadway, such as Richard III (2003) and A Month in the Country (2015).