The American actor Peter Hayden Dinklage is best known for his role as Tyrion Lannister in the American fantasy drama television series Game of Thrones. Dinklage won a record four Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series while playing Tyrion Lannister. Additionally, he was honoured with a Screen Actors Guild Award in 2020 and a Golden Globe Award in 2011.
At 4 feet 5 inches (1.35 meters) tall, Dinklage has achondroplasia, a common form of dwarfism. Dinklage participated in several amateur stage performances while pursuing his acting education at Bennington College. His breakthrough performance came in the 2003 comic-drama The Station Agent, after he made his cinematic debut in the 1995 black comedy Living in Oblivion.
Who are Peter Dinklage’s parents?
Born on June 11, 1969, in the Jersey Shore area of New Jersey, Dinklage is the son of insurance salesman John Carl Dinklage and German-Irish elementary school music teacher Diane Dinklage. He was raised alongside his parents and older brother Jonathan in Mendham Township's historic Brookside neighbourhood. He was brought up Catholic.
Peter Dinklage’s wife Erica Schmidt
Peter Dinklage married Erica Schmidt in 2005. The couple has two children together.
American theatre director, dramatist, and screenwriter Erica Schmidt was born in 1975. Her most well-known work is Cyrano, a 2021 film that was nominated for both the BAFTA and Academy Awards. It is based on her 2018 stage musical of the same name.
She received the Princess Grace Foundation's Robert and Gloria Hausman Theatre Honour in 2001. The Princess Grace Foundation promotes up-and-coming actors, dancers, and filmmakers. She received a nomination for the Lucille Lortel Award and the Drama Desk Award for outstanding revival and outstanding direction for her all-female 2019 rendition of Macbeth.
Schmidt's other directing credits include Chashama (for which she won the New York International Fringe Festival Award for best direction) and The Play Company (for which she was nominated for a Callaway Award). She co-created, co-wrote, and co-directed the play Humor Abuse, for which she also received a Lucille Lortel Award.
Peter Dinklage’s children
In 2011, Schmidt and Dinklage became parents to a daughter, and in 2017, they had another child. Schmidt was pregnant when her 2017 play, All the Fine Boys, opened, but the couple has not yet revealed the sex of their second child.
The public is still unaware of the names of both of their children, but Dinklage has been amused by the numerous speculations made online, including the theory that he called his daughter Zelig after the Woody Allen film of the same name.
FAQs about Peter Dinklage
Peter Dinklage has achondroplasia, a common form of dwarfism.
Peter Dinklage earned fame for his role as Tyrion Lannister in the American fantasy drama series Game of Thrones.
Peter Dinklage made $1.2 million for his role as Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones.
Yes, Peter Dinklage was in Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War. He played Eitri, the king of the Dwarves.
Peter Dinklage has a net worth of $25 million.
