Career
Dinklage made his feature film debut in the cult art house film Living in Oblivion (1995), playing a frustrated dwarf actor complaining about his clichéd part. Dinklage's breakout role was in the 2003 award-winning film The Station Agent, his first mainstream appearance. He received Independent Spirit and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for Best Actor for his performance in that film. That same year, he appeared in the direct-to-DVD movie Tiptoes with Gary Oldman. As well as appearing in films, Dinklage has starred several times in Off-Broadway productions.
In Elf, Dinklage played a pretentious children's author who beats up Will Ferrell's character after he is unintentionally insulted. In 2005, Dinklage starred in the short-lived CBS science fiction series Threshold and appeared in the Michael Showalter comedy The Baxter (2005) as a wedding planner. In 2006, Dinklage appeared in Sidney Lumet's courtroom drama Find Me Guilty and in episodes of Nip/Tuck. He played himself in one episode of the HBO television series Entourage and was featured on NBC's 30 Rock. Dinklage also had a role in the British comedy Death at a Funeral (2007) and the American remake (2010). That same year, he played the villainous Simon Bar Sinister in Underdog (2007).
Dinklage was chosen by director Andrew Adamson for the role of Trumpkin in Prince Caspian (2008), although film critic Bill Gibron described his role as a "cutesy stereotype he has tried to avoid."
In the summer of 2008, Dinklage performed the title role in Uncle Vanya, directed by his wife Erica Schmidt, in Bard College's annual Bard SummerScape, the Upstate New York summer stage on the Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, campus.
Dinklage also stars in the upcoming horror comedy Knights of Badassdom, directed by Joe Lynch. Dinklage plays Tyrion Lannister in HBO's Game of Thrones, an adaptation of author George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series. His performance has received widespread praise, highlighted by his receiving the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2011, as well as the 2012 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film. As a result of his outstanding performance and increased screen time, Dinklage was given top billing in Season 2.
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