Many film enthusiasts today with confidenceclaim: their favorite character - Tyrion Lannister. The actor who played the wise dwarf in the large-scale fantasy epic "Game of Thrones", became famous for precisely this role.
Peter Dinklage was born in 1969 in the cityMorristown, NJ. In 1991, he moved to New York to work in the city theater. Four years later he first appeared in the cinema - it was the film "Life in Oblivion." The next motion picture brought him some fame and approval from critics: in 2003, the actor starred in the film “The Stationmaster”. Even today, critics have nothing to complain about, because for an amazing game in the television series "Game of Thrones" Peter received two Emmy Awards: in 2011 and 2015.
How did the future Tirion Lannister start?From the very beginning of his career, actor Peter Dinklage had an outstanding ability to chain viewers' views to his images on the screen. The taste of the game on stage, he first discovered in his hometown of Morristown.
Born to quite normal parents,Dinklage soon found out about his diagnosis. Achondroplasia, or congenital chondrodystrophy, is a genetic disorder that affects bone growth. In people with this form, the dwarfism of the head and torso reaches quite normal sizes, and the limbs remain underdeveloped. Currently, like his character Tyrion Lannister, the actor has come to terms with his fate, but in his teens he had a hard time. Peter discovered that to survive in a world where people like you are one in a million, you just need to gain a sense of humor.
For the first time, Dinklage felt a rush of inspiration totheater stage is still in the fifth grade of the school, when children staged a play based on the book "Velvet Rabbit". Peter was entrusted with the main role, and he was delighted with the reaction of the audience. Then the boy entered the Delbarton Catholic School and began to develop his undeniable talent, remaining after school and learning new roles in the drama circle.
In college, the future Tyrion Lannister is an actor, a giftwhom everyone now recognized, - played in a variety of amateur productions. After graduating in 1991, he moved to New York, where career opportunities were much greater.
Interestingly, for the first time critics favorablytook Dinklage's acting game when he starred in Tom McCarthy’s independent film project The Stationmaster (2003). In this film, he played the role of a lonely man obsessed with trains, who inherited the old depot. The character of Peter gets a friend - a talkative seller from the dining car, and then falls in love with the artist, leading a reclusive life and suffering after losing the child and parting with her husband. The film was very warmly received at the Sundance Film Festival - it was there that the studio Miramax studio bought the picture.
Tyrion Lannister (the actor, by the way, admits thathas many similarities with his character) - a dwarf of noble birth, the so-called "good bad guy." He survives thanks to his intelligence and wisdom and endures all hardships in a cruel world torn apart by dynasties who crave power over the kingdoms of Westeros. The television fantasy epic "Game of Thrones", the first season of which was released on screens in 2011, is based on George Martin's book A Song of Ice and Flame. According to the writer, he drew inspiration for the multivolume history in the chronicles of the infamous Rose War, which at one time greatly weakened medieval England.
The popular actor who played Tirion Lannister is married to Eric Schmidt. His wife works as a theater director. The couple have a daughter, Zelig Dinklage, the girl is already four years old.
