As a child, Dinklage and his brother performed puppet musicals for people in their neighborhood. He has described Jonathan as being the “real performer of the family,” saying that his brother’s passion for the violin was the only thing that kept him from pursuing.In 1984, Dinklage was inspired by a production of the play True West, written by American playwright Sam Shepard, to pursue a career in acting.Dinklage then attended Bennington College, where he studied for a drama degree and also appeared in numerous productions before graduating in 1991.After that he moved to New York City with his friend Ian Bell to build a theater company. Failing to pay the rent, they moved out of their apartment.Dinklage then worked at a data-processing company for 6 years before pursuing a career as a full-time actor.
Dinklage initially struggled to find work as an actor, partially because he refused to take the roles typically offered to actors with his condition, such as “elves or leprechauns.
Dinklage has a form of dwarfism, achondroplasia, which affects bone growth. As a result, he is 4 feet 5 inches (1.35 m) tall, with an average-sized head and torso but shorter than average limbs.
While Dinklage has come to accept his condition, he sometimes found it challenging when growing up.
When asked in 2012 whether he saw himself as “a spokesman for the rights of little people,” Dinklage responded: “I don’t know what I would say. Everyone’s different. Every person my size has a different life, a different history. Different ways of dealing with it. Just because I’m seemingly okay with it, I can’t preach how to be okay with it.
Despite his own sentiment about the matter, Dinklage has been viewed as a role model for people sharing his condition.At the 2012 Golden Globe ceremony, when Dinklage won the award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film, he told the audience that he had been thinking about “a gentleman, his name is Martin Henderson,” and suggested that they Google his name.
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