Peter Dinklage
already had a thriving
Hollywood career
before rising to global fame thanks to
Game of Thrones.
But after the successful fantasy series, the actor continues to be as in demand as he has been up to now.
Very discreet with his personal life
, he has been married for more than 15 years to the theater director Erica Schmidt, with whom he
has two children.
And although she does not want to be the voice of people with dwarfism, she used her fame to
make visible the problems
that many face.
Dinklage (New Jersey, 1969) discovered his artistic vocation as a child thanks to his older brother, Jonathan.
Together they put together
puppet musicals
for their neighbors and Jonathan's passion for the violin, which he would end up playing professionally in a hit musical like Hamilton, encouraged Peter to pursue his dream of acting.
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In high school, Dinklage participated in various theatrical productions and continued his
acting studies
at Bennington University. He then moved to
New York,
where he worked at a
data processing company
for six years before he was able to pursue acting full time. As he told
The New York Times
, early in his career Dinklage barely got a job as an actor because he refused to play the characters offered to people with dwarfism:
elves or leprechauns.
Dinklage
is 1.35 meters tall and has achondroplasia,
one of the most common causes of dwarfism that results in uneven growth of the limbs and spine. "I never discussed my height with my family.
There was nothing to explain.
It's like having to explain your hands. You grow up with it, it is part of you, it is not something that appears suddenly one night, such as an illness" , the actor told
Rolling Stone
about the normality with which
his parents, an insurance salesman and a music teacher,
raised him.
However, growing up as a dwarf was not easy and he himself has recognized that
when he was young it really affected him.
"As a teenager, I was bitter and angry. But growing up, you realize that you just have to have a sense of humor. You know it's not your problem, it's theirs," he told
Today
.
Thus, in 1995, at the age of 26, Dinklage
made his film debut
with the black comedy
Vivir rolndo
, an independent film starring Steve Buscemi that won the award for best screenplay at the Sundance Film Festival.
His character was precisely that of
an actor with frustrated dwarfism
because he always received the same roles.
But it was not until 2003 and the film
Vías cruzadas
that he managed to
make a name for himself in the industry,
already chaining one project after another.
Highlights: his work on the Ryan Murphy series
Nip / Tuck: A Scalpel Blow
as the charming babysitter with whom
Joely Richardson
ends up having an
affair
.
The actor, taking his daughter on a scooter.
With the broadcast of
Game of Thrones
(2011-2019) on HBO, Dinklage achieved
global star
status
as Tyrion Lannister.
And as pointed out at the beginning, he took advantage of his fame to denounce the difficulties that people with dwarfism must face during their life. In 2012 the actor
won the Golden Globe
for best supporting actor and in his thank you speech he suggested that viewers Google
Martin Henderson's
name
.
Henderson was a man with dwarfism from England who had been seriously injured when a stranger decided to throw him to the ground in a bar.
Dinklage's complaint served to get the media and social networks to focus their attention on
the launching of dwarfs,
a sadly famous practice in Anglo-Saxon countries that consists of exactly that: throwing people with dwarfism who wear padded suits against the walls or the ground of pubs and bars, also protected.
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Personally, Dinklage has been
married to theater director Erica Schmidt since 2005,
and the couple have two children: a girl born in 2011 and a boy born in 2017. Animal rights defender and
vegetarian
since the age of 16, the
entire The meat you eat in
Game of Thrones
is tofu.
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After exploring the
blockbuster
with
X-Men: Days of Future Past
or returning to independent cinema in
Three Ads on the Outskirts
, Dinklage, who turns 52 on June 11, accumulates
half a dozen projects
in the cinema.
These include
The Dwarf
, a period film written and directed by Brad Anderson where the actor
plays a Machiavellian dwarf
who manipulates his prince until he brings his kingdom to ruin;
and
Cyrano
, a new adaptation of Edmond Rostand's play by Joe Wright where he will play the
proud soldier poet.
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