Peter Dinklage does on 11th June - check out my tribute to this Birthday Boy turning 47, at the end of this feature.
Do you also share your birthday with a well known, highly regarded & famous Actor or Actress; share your special day with a Director, Producer, Writer, Cinematographer, Singer/Songwriter or Composer of repute; or share an interest in whoever might notch up another year in the coming seven days? Then, look no further! Whilst there will be too many to mention in this small but not insignificant and beautifully written and presented Blog, here are the more notable and noteworthy icons of the big screen, and the small screen, that you will recognise, and that you might just share your birthday with in the week ahead. If so, Happy Birthday to you from Odeon Online!
Sunday 5th June
- Kathleen Kennedy - Born 1953, turns 63 - Producer
- Mark Wahlberg - Born 1971, turns 45 - Actor | Producer | Singer | Songwriter
Monday 6th June
- Paul Giamatti - Born 1967, turns 49 - Actor | Producer
- Jonathan Nolan - Born 1976, turns 40 - Writer | Producer | Director
- Robert Englund - Born 1947, turns 69 - Actor | Director
- Jason Isaacs - Born 1963, turns 53 - Actor | Producer
- Sandra Bernhard - Born 1955, turns 61 - Actress | Writer
Tuesday 7th June
- Liam Neeson - Born 1952, turns 64 - Actor
- Karl Urban - Born 1972, turns 44 - Actor
- William Forsythe - Born 1955, turns 61 - Actor | Producer
- Ronald Pickup - Born 1940, turns 76 - Actor
- Bill Hader - Born 1978, turns 38 - Actor | Writer | Producer | Director
- Michael Cera - Born 1988, turns 28 - Actor | Writer | Producer | Director | Composer | Singer
Wednesday 8th June
- Jerry Stiller - Born 1927, turns 89 - Actor | Producer
- Griffin Dunne - Born 1955, turns 61 - Actor | Producer | Director
Thursday 9th June
- Michael J. Fox - Born 1961, turns 55 - Actor | Producer
- Johnny Depp - Born 1963, turns 53 - Actor | Producer | Director | Singer
- David Koepp - Born 1963, turns 53 - Writer | Producer | Director
- Aaron Sorkin - Born 1961, turns 55 - Writer | Producer | Director | Actor
- Natalie Portman - Born 1981, turns 35 - Actress | Producer | Writer | Director
Friday 10th June
- Jeanne Tripplehorn - Born 1963, turns 53 - Actress
- Elizabeth Hurley - Born 1965, turns 51 - Actress | Producer
- Leelee Sobieski - Born 1983, turns 33 - Actress | Producer
- Andrew Niccol - Born 1964, turns 52 - Writer | Producer | Director
- Jurgen Prochnow - Born 1941, turns 75 - Actor
Saturday 11th June
- Gene Wilder - Born 1933, turns 83 - Actor | Writer | Producer | Director | Singer
- Hugh Laurie - Born 1959, turns 57 - Actor | Writer | Producer | Director | Singer | Songwriter
- Peter Dinklage - Born 1969, turns 47 - Actor | Producer
- Shia LaBeouf - Born 1986, turns 30 - Actor | Writer | Producer | Director
Peter Hayden Dinklage was born in Morristown, New Jersey to mother Diane Dinklage, an elementary school music teacher and father John Dinklage, an insurance salesman, now retired. He was born with 'achondroplasia' - a common cause of dwarfism whereby those with it are effected by short stature typically being an average height of 130 cms, or 52 inches, for men and generally associated with late paternal age or inherited as a genetic disorder. Dinklage has a brother, a violinist, who is of normal build and stature. All that said, the young Dinklage got his first stab at theatre success in a school production of Margery Williams 1922 book 'The Velveteen Rabbit' playing the lead role of the young boy given the said rabbit as a present. He graduated from the private Roman Catholic all boys prep-school, Delbarton School in Morristown in 1987 having honed his acting talents throughout his school life. He then went on to the private arts college - Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont, from which he graduated in 1999 with a degree in drama.
He got his first break in the 1995 film 'Living in Oblivion' - a film about film making starring Steve Buscemi, Dermot Mulroney and Catherine Keener with Dinklage playing a dwarf actor complaining about being typecast. After a couple of uncredited roles, 1998 saw 'Safe Men' with Paul Giamatti, Mark Ruffalo, Sam Rockwell and Steve Zahn and comedy 'Pigeonholed' closing out the decade. A couple of appearances on television series episodes followed before 'Never Again', and then for Director Michael Gondry came 'Human Nature' with Tim Robbins, Rhys Ifans and Patricia Arquette in 2001, and then '13 Moons' a year later with Steve Buscemi, Sam Rockwell, Peter Stormare and Jennifer Beals, and 'Just a Kiss' that same year.
His breakout role however, came in 2003 with Tom McCarthy's 'The Station Agent' with Patricia Clarkson, Bobby Cannavale, Michelle Williams and John Slattery. For his performance as Finbar McBride, Dinklage won numerous awards and further nominations. 'Tiptoes' followed that same years with Gary Oldman, Matthew McConaughey, Patricia Arquette and Kate Beckinsale, with Jon Favreau's 'Elf' with Will Ferrell, James Caan and Edward Asner as Santa closing out that year.
In the years that followed there were a number of short films, television series appearances, and made for TV movies with feature films in between such as 'The Baxter', 'Escape Artists' a remake of 'Lassie', 'Fortunes', 'The Limbo Room', true Mafia courtroom drama 'Find Me Guilty' for Sidney Lumet with Vin Diesel, 'Little Fugitive', and 'Penelope' with James McAvoy, Richard E. Grant, Reece Witherspoon and Christina Ricci, with seven episodes on 'Nip/Tuck' closing out 2006.
'A Little Bit of Heaven' with Kate Hudson, Kathy Bates, Whoopi Goldberg and Rosemary DeWitt kicked off 2011. Then came 'A Case of You' with Sam Rockwell once more and Justin Long, 'The Knights of Badassdom' with Steve Zahn again and Ryan Kwanten, then biopic 'Low Down' and 'X-Men : Days of Future Past' as Bolivar Trask.
Following on from these there was 'The Angriest Man in Brooklyn' with the late great Robin Williams, then 'Taxi', 'Pixels' for Chris Columbus with Adam Sandler and Kevin James, and 'The Boss' with Melissa McCarthy bringing us up to date. In the meantime, Dinklage lent his voice talents to 'Ice Age : Continental Drift' as Captain Gutt and 'The Angry Birds Movie' most recently as Mighty Eagle.
Let's of course not forget his multi-awed winning role as Tyrion Lannister on 55 episodes so far of 'Game of Thrones' for which he has won a Golden Globe, two Primetime Emmy's and a Satellite Award rounding out a 'GOT' haul of eight award wins and a further 27 nominations. Next up, currently in post-production of 'Rememory' with Anton Yelchin and Julia Ormond, currently filming is 'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri' for Martin McDonagh with Sam Rockwell once more, Woody Harrelson, Abbie Cornish and Frances McDormand, and 'The Thicket' in pre-production.
All up Dinklage has sixty-six acting credits to his name, three Producer credits, and he has twelve award wins and 39 other nominations. In 2005 he married Erica Schmidt, a theatre Director with whom he has daughter born in 2011. He has been a vegetarian since sixteen years of age, is a supporter of the American animal protection organisation 'Farm Sanctuary' and narrated 'Face Your Food' - a film promoting a vegan diet for ethical reasons.
Peter Dinklage - proud to be of shorter stature; proud to be an animal lover; frequently appears with Steve Buscemi and Sam Rockwell especially; a private hermit like person now of world renown thanks to 'GOT'; and clearly now very much in the spotlight and keeping us entertained and glued to the small screen and the big screen too. Good things . . . come in small packages! Happy Birthday to you Peter - from Odeon Online.
-Steve, at Odeon Online-
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