Peter Dinklage Biography

Standing four feet five inches tall, actor Peter Dinklage has had a prolific career both on-stage and in film. After graduating from college in Vermont, he studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London and the Welsh School of Music and Drama in Wales. He worked in several productions off-Broadway and wrote his own play entitled Frog. He made his film debut in Tom DiCillo's 1995 independent comedy Living in Oblivion as the dwarf in the dream sequence. He then appeared in Safe Men, Bullet, Never Again, and Just a Kiss before returning to independent comedies. In 2001 he had a substantial role in Michel Gondry's Human Nature, written by Charlie Kaufman. In 2002, he played Binky, the sidekick to the clown Bananas played by Steve Buscemi in Alexandre Rockwell's 13 Moons. His first starring film role was in Tom McCarthy's The Station Agent as Finbar McBride, a lonely misfit who shacks up in an abandoned railway depot. Also starring Patricia Clarkson and Bobby Cannavale, the film won festival acclaim at Sundance. In 2003, Dinklage can be seen in both the Lincoln Center production of Toulouse Lautrec and the Jon Favreau holiday comedy Elf starring Will Ferrell. After a supporting role in The Baxter found Dinklage appearing in one of the year's most off-beat romantic comedies, and the sci fi television series Threshold afforded him the opportunity to appear alongside Star Trek: The Next Generation star Brent Spiner, Dinklage would next share the screen with the most popular canine in film and television history in the 2006 family-oriented adventure Lassie. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi

• 1. Trumpkin the Dwarf: Oh.. you've got to be kidding me! You're it? You're the Kings and Queens of old.
  2. Peter Pevensie: High King Peter, the Magnificent.
  3. Susan Pevensie: You could probably left the last bit.
  4. Trumpkin the Dwarf: [laughs] Probably..
  From The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. Submitted by Krystoffer Dave L (28 days ago)

• 1. Lucy Pevensie: Why are they trying to kill you anyway?
  2. Trumpkin the Dwarf: They're Telmarines. That's what they do.
  3. Edmund Pevensie: Telmarines? In Narnina?
  4. Trumpkin the Dwarf: Where have you been for the last few hundred years?
  5. Lucy Pevensie: Its a bit of a long story.
  From The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. Submitted by Krystoffer Dave L (28 days ago)

• 1. Trumpkin the Dwarf: Drop him? That's the best you can come up with?
  2. Susan Pevensie: A simple thank you would suffice.
  3. Trumpkin the Dwarf: They were doing fine drowning me without your help!
  4. Peter Pevensie: Maybe we should have let them.
  From The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. Submitted by Krystoffer Dave L (28 days ago)

• 1. Tito: Have you ever had a dream with a dwarf in it? Do you know anyone who's had a dream with a dwarf in it? No! I don't even have dreams with dwarves in them. The only place I've seen dwarves in dreams is in stupid movies like this! 'Oh make it weird, put a dwarf in it!'. Everyone will go 'Woah, this must be a fuckin' dream, there's a fuckin' dwarf in it!'. Well I'm sick of it! You can take this dream sequence and stick it up your ass!
  From Living in Oblivion. Submitted by Rocky F (4 months ago)

• 1. Buddy: Did you have to borrow a reindeer to get down here?
  2. Miles Finch: Hey, jackweed, I get more action in a week than you've had in your entire life. I've got houses in L.A., Paris and Vail. In each one, a 70 inch plasma screen. So I suggest you wipe that stupid smile off your face before I come over there and smack it off! You feeling strong, my friend? Call me elf one more time.
  3. Buddy: He's an angry elf.
  4. Buddy: He must be a South Pole elf.
  From Elf. Submitted by Sophie B (12 months ago)