Peter Dinklage is an American actor known for his roles on stage and screen. Over his career he has received several accolades including a Critics' Choice Award, four Primetime Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Dinklage began his acting career with a role in the 1995 low-budget independent comedy-drama Living in Oblivion. For starring as a quiet, withdrawn unmarried man in the critically acclaimed comedy drama The Station Agent (2003), Dinklage received nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor and Best Ensemble. The role also earned him nominations for the Chicago Film Critics Association Award and Online Film Critics Society Award for the film. In 2004, Dinklage won his first Satellite Award for Outstanding Talent.
In 2011 Dinklage gained international recognition playing the character Tyrion Lannister in the HBO TV series Game of Thrones. He won a Primetime Emmy and a Golden Globe Award for Supporting Actor in 2011, and garnered consecutive Emmy nominations for the role from 2011 to 2016, with another Emmy win in 2015; he secured a seventh nomination and third win in 2018 and an eighth nomination and fourth win in 2019. The latter nomination made him the only Game of Thrones cast member to receive a Primetime Emmy nomination for each season. He and the rest of the cast were nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in 2011 and again from 2013 to 2017. Dinklage was also nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor each year from 2013 to 2017. He was nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2012, 2016 and 2017.
Dinklage played the character Bolivar Trask, a military scientist who creates a range of robots designed to find and destroy mutants, in the 2014 superhero film X-Men: Days of Future Past, for which he was nominated for an MTV Movie Award for Best Villain.
Major associations Critics' Choice Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Critics' Choice Television Awards 2012 Best Supporting Actor in a Television Drama Series Game of Thrones 2016 2017 Best Acting by an Ensemble in a Movie Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 2021 Best Actor Cyrano
Emmy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Primetime Emmy Awards 2011 Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Game of Thrones (episode: "Baelor") 2012 Game of Thrones (episode: "Blackwater") 2013 Game of Thrones (episode: "Second Sons") 2014 Game of Thrones (episode: "The Laws of Gods and Men") 2015 Game of Thrones (episode: "Hardhome") 2016 Game of Thrones (episode: "No One") 2018 Game of Thrones (episode: "The Dragon and the Wolf") 2019 Game of Thrones (episode: "The Iron Throne") Outstanding Television Movie My Dinner with Hervé
Golden Globe Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 2011Best Supporting Actor – Television Game of Thrones 2021 Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Cyrano
Screen Actors Guild Awards Year Category Nominated work Result 2003 Outstanding Male Actor in a Leading RoleThe Station Agent Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture 2011 Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama SeriesGame of Thrones 2013 Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series Outstanding Male Actor in a Drama Series 2014 Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series Outstanding Male Actor in a Drama Series 2015 Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series Outstanding Male Actor in a Drama Series 2016 Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series Outstanding Male Actor in a Drama Series 2017 Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series Outstanding Male Actor in a Drama Series Outstanding Cast in a Motion PictureThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 2018 Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama SeriesGame of Thrones Outstanding Male Actor in a Drama Series
Miscellaneous awards Organizations Year Category Work Result Capri Hollywood International Film Festival 2021 Best Actor Cyrano Chicago Film Critics Association 2004 Most Promising Performer The Station Agent Detroit Film Critics Society 2017 Best Ensemble Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 2022 Best Actor Cyrano Empire Awards 2015 Empire Hero Award Game of Thrones Georgia Film Critics Association 2017 Best Ensemble Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Independent Spirit Awards 2003 Best Male Lead The Station Agent IGN Awards 2011 Best TV ActorGame of Thrones IGN People's Choice Awards 2011 Best TV Actor Monte-Carlo Television Festival 2012 Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series MTV Movie & TV Awards 2015 Best Villain X-Men: Days of Future Past Online Film Critics Society2003 Best Breakthrough Performance The Station Agent 2017 Best Ensemble Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Portal Awards 2011 Best Supporting Actor Game of Thrones 2012 Best Actor Television Critics Association Awards 2011 Individual Achievement in DramaGame of Thrones 2012 Seattle Film Critics Society 2017 Best Ensemble Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Satellite Awards 2004 Special Achievement Award For Outstanding Talent Peter Dinklage 2011 Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film Game of Thrones 2012 2014 2015 2022 Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama Cyrano San Diego Film Critics Society 2017 Best Performance by an Ensemble Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Scream Awards 2011 Scream Award for Best Supporting Actor Game of Thrones Scream Award for Best Ensemble SFX Awards 2011 Best Actor Game of Thrones 2012 2014 Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association 2017 Best Acting Ensemble Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
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See also Peter Dinklage on screen and stage
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