Who is Peter Dinklage’s wife?

Last Modified May 28, 2025 05:29 EDT


Who is Peter Dinklage’s wife?
Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister (Source: Instagram)


Peter Dinklage is married to American theatre director, playwright, and screenwriter Erica Schmidt.


Peter Hayden Dinklage is an American actor and film producer. He made his debut in 1993. The now 55-year-old trained at Bennington College and earned his breakthrough role in the film The Station Agent, an indie film. Dinklage’s performance was met with aplomb, and he was even nominated for Best Actor at the Independent Spirit Award and Screen Actors Guild Award. However, it was his role as Tyrion Lannister on Game of Thrones that shot him into fame, with his performances winning him the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series a record four times.


Who is Peter Dinklage’s wife?


Peter Dinklage is married to Erica Schmidt and has been married to her since 2005. Schmidt was born on 8 June 1975 and is a prolific playwright, theatre director, and screenwriter. She earned global recognition for writing the BAFTA- and Academy Award-nominated 2021 film Cyrano, which is also based on her 2018 stage musical of the same name.


Not only that, she received a Robert and Gloria Hausman Theater Honor in 2001 alongside several nominations for various theatre productions. That includes both the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play and Outstanding Revival of a Play for her off-Broadway, all-female adaptation of Macbeth.


Peter Dinklage and Erica Schmidt’s relationship


Peter Dinklage and Erica Schmid met in 2001 at a mutual friend’s house in New York City, as per an interview Dinklage gave in 2021 with the New York Times. They started dating soon after that. The couple then decided to elope in 2005 when Dinklage went to Las Vegas for a charity event and decided, on a whim, to get married.


While the couple tends to keep a lot of their lives private, it is known that they have two children; a daughter born in 2011 and a second child born in 2017. However, the ultra-private couple has never shared the sex of their second child or the names of either of their children.


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