Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the 418th episode of Awards Chatter, Hollywood

Reporters Awards Podcast, I'm the host Scott Feinberg and my guest today is widely regarded

as one of the finest actors of his generation.

He first broke through playing the title character in Tom McCarthy's Arthouse Sensation,

the Station Agent.

He shot to International Stardom as Terry and Lannister on the landmark HBO TV series Game

of Thrones, garnering Emmy nominations for all eight seasons of the show, and taking home

the prize four times.

And this year he is very much in the hunt for his first Oscar nomination, for his portrayal

of Serrano de Berserock in a musical adaptation of Edmund Rothstand's play written by his wife

Erica Schmidt called Serrano.

I'm talking, of course, about the great Peter Dinklage.

Over the course of our conversation, the 52-year-old opened up about the personal code that

kept him as a person with a form of dwarfism called Acondriplasia from accepting stereotypical

sorts of roles even when they were the only job offers he was receiving.

How Game of Thrones changed his life and career, what it was like carrying a movie musical

for the first time, plus much more.

And so without further ado, let's go to that conversation.

Peter, thank you so much for joining us on the podcast on this podcast.

We really look back at the major moments and turning points in a guest's life.

And so just to begin with, at the very beginning, where were you born and raised and what did

your folks do for a living?

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