Biography:

Peter Hayden Dinklage is an American actor. Since his breakout role in The Station Agent (2003), he has appeared in films such as Elf (2003), Find Me Guilty (2006), Underdog (2007), the British film Death at a Funeral (2007) and its American remake of the same name (2010), The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008), A Little Bit of Heaven (2011), Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012), and Knights of Badassdom (2013). Since 2011, he has played Tyrion Lannister in the HBO series Game of Thrones, which earned him the Emmy and the Golden Globe Award for Supporting Actor in 2011.

Dinklage was born in Morristown, New Jersey the son of John Carl, a retired insurance salesman, and Diane Dinklage, an elementary school music teacher. Dinklage was born with achondroplasia, a common cause of dwarfism. He grew up in Mendham Township, New Jersey, and is of German and Irish descent. His German ancestors were related to the Westphalian noble family "von Dincklage". Because of the Germanophobia during World War II, the German-American branch of the family rid itself of the "von".[citation needed] Dinklage graduated from Delbarton School in 1987, and Bennington College in 1991.

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