"Little Devil" Peter Dinrage recently got another look at it in Avengers 3!
The role of the king of the dwarven kingdom can be said to be very suitable, after all, the most famous dwarf actor in the world is more like a giant than any normal person.
Putting aside the movie's character aura, the real-life Peter Dinrage is even more legendary!
He is only 1 meter 35 tall, and he verified Shakespeare's words with his personal experience -
"I'd rather reuse an active dwarf than a snoozing giant"
Peter was born on June 11, 1969, in New Jersey to an ordinary American family.
His father was a primary school music teacher, his mother was an insurance salesman, and his brother was a violinist.
The whole family has a normal height, but he is the only one who has lost the opportunity to grow tall forever because of hypoplasia of cartilage.
Fortunately, his parents did not give up giving up the love he deserved because of his physical deformity.
"In their opinion, I'm just a little bit different from other people."
But even if the family did not dislike him, every time he walked on the road, Peter would still be talked about, coupled with the ridicule and bullying of his classmates, so that the little Peter who stopped at 1 meter 35 in height became more and more inferior.
The unhappiness of childhood made him enjoy being alone from an early age, and it was in the process that he discovered something that would allow him to find happiness and satisfaction – acting
Peter had a priest teacher who had a large collection of film and television tapes, and it was at this stage that Peter came into contact with the films of fellini, Kasowitz, Antonioni, and other masters.
Peter fell in love with movies and acting.
So after graduating from high school, he made acting as his goal.
After four years of hard work, he graduated from the acting department at Bennington College in Vermont at the age of 22.
But despite the solid acting skills of the class, Peter still did not get the approval of others.
Occasionally, a script comes to the door, and it just wants to consume his special figure, let him wear pointed leather shoes hanging from the bell, and play a funny clown.
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Despite his poor living, most of the time he would turn down these jobs and reply head-on:
"I'm an actor, I have acting skills, and I don't have to satirize my height."
Even if there is no income, there is no money to pay the rent.
Due to his stature, he could not receive normal roles, and he was once far away from the film industry, and even made extra money in a band called "Whizzy".
Later, he finally found a stable job, and his daily job was to input data into the computer.
He did it for 6 full years.
In the good times of youth, in the face of the attacks of others and the career he was passionate about, Peter still chose to compromise.
Recalling the experience later in an interview, Peter said:
"I was very concerned about height when I was a child, and during my adolescence I was often angry about this pain, and I invisibly closed myself off.
But as you get older, you realize you have to have a sense of humor. When others laugh at you, you have to understand that it's not your problem, it's their problem. ”
So he figured it out that there is no shortage of another world-weary dwarf in this world, and he really doesn't need to give up what he really likes to do because of the eyes of others.
From then on, he made up his mind: from now on, for better or worse, I want to be a professional actor.
"Because only I can change my destiny, no one can change it for me."
In this regard, he began to seriously pick the script and choose the role again.
In order to change everyone's fixed prejudice against gnomes, the only way he chose was to say no to such a character.
Now, he let go of his stubbornness and learned how to use his height to play a good role.
After patiently honing his acting skills for many years, in 2003, he ushered in the "Soul Station" tailored for him.
The same life experience inside and outside the play makes his performance delicate and vivid
In the end, the film was nominated for numerous awards at the Chicago Film Critics Association Awards that year, and he finally won the Film Emperor of the Orrence Independent Film Festival for this role.
And this role not only gave him confidence, but also made the major Directors in Hollywood begin to notice that there is a small actor who really has acting skills.
A year later, he succeeded in fulfilling a dream he had always had as an actor: starring in Shakespeare's play Richard III.
In the repertoire he played Shakespeare's cruel and sad Richard III.
Everyone was amazed by the "little man" in front of them!
And what really made Peter Tinclair raise his eyebrows was in 2011.
Legend has it that he didn't even audition for the role of the little devil in "Game of Thrones".
Originally, at the beginning, he himself was a bit rejected, because in the play, the little demon was hated by his father and sister since he was a child, he gambled, loved to drink, and indulged in beauty...
At first glance, this person is really unpleasant.
But as the plot progresses, the audience understands why Peter eventually took on the role.
It turns out that this "little devil" that everyone dislikes is actually very fond of reading, good at thinking, and stronger than strategizing.
In the face of the cruel little king, who no one dared to say no, he dared to slap him in the face.
Thanks to Pete Dinrage's outstanding performance, Tyrion, who was originally ugly in the book, became one of the most popular characters in the entire series.
Even George Martin, the author of A Song of Ice and Fire, said:
"If it wasn't for Peter playing this role, My God, this show would be over."
In 2011, the role of "Little Devil" won him the 63rd Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.
In 2012, "Little Devil" won him best supporting actor at the 69th Golden Globe Awards.
Later, Peter's acting career began to flourish,
Peter used his accumulated more than 20 years of acting experience to star in more than 30 film and television works, gaining global popularity.
In 2013, he joined the blockbuster "X-Men: Reverse Future", playing the founder of the main villain "Trask Industries", Bolivar Province Trask
I remember that during the promotion of the movie, he also ran Asian publicity with Fan Bingbing, who participated in the film.
Of course, in terms of life, Peter is also lucky,
Before participating in the "Game of Thrones" hit, he had already found a lover to organize a family.
His wife is also very talented, and is a stage director named Erica Schmidt.
The two were married for more than five years, and in 2011, the wife became pregnant and gave birth to a baby the same age as Game of Thrones.
"My whole life has been a trial of gnomes," is a classic line of the Little Devil in Game of Thrones.
For Peter, his life is very similar to that of the little devils, who have suffered blank eyes and ridicule because of their height defects...
The world did not treat them kindly, even unfairly, but they never really gave up on themselves.
Although Heaven did not give him a perfect skin bag, it gave him another talent, and living in this skin bag, he was more like a giant than any normal person.
It's also like what he mentioned in a speech —
"Sometimes the whole world may say that you can't do it, you don't even ask, don't insist on arguing with the world that you can, you have to prove it!" 」