Peter Dinklage (born June 11, 1969) is an American film, television and theater actor. Since his breakout role in the 2003 film The Station Agent, he has acted in many prominent movies, including Elf, Underdog, Find Me Guilty, Death at a Funeral, and Prince Caspian.
Dinklage was born in Morristown, New Jersey, the son of Diane, an elementary school music teacher, and John Dinklage, a retired insurance salesman. He grew up in Mendham Township, New...
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Peter Dinklage (born June 11, 1969) is an American film, television and theater actor. Since his breakout role in the 2003 film The Station Agent, he has acted in many prominent movies, including Elf, Underdog, Find Me Guilty, Death at a Funeral, and Prince Caspian.
Dinklage was born in Morristown, New Jersey, the son of Diane, an elementary school music teacher, and John Dinklage, a retired insurance salesman. He grew up in Mendham Township, New Jersey. Dinklage is a 1987 graduate of Delbarton School in Morristown, where he first began acting, and a 1991 graduate of Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont. He is a vegetarian. He married Erica Schmidt, a theatre director, in 2004.
Dinklage was born with achondroplasia, causing dwarfism. His height is 4'5" (1.35 m). When asked about this, he said:
When I was younger, definitely, I let it get to me. As an adolescent, I was bitter and angry and I definitely put up these walls. But the older you get, you realize you just have to have a...
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