“Game of Thrones” star Peter Dinklage won his third Emmy for playing iconic Tyrion Lannister in HBO’s Game of Thrones, at the Primetime Emmys on Monday.
This year marked Dinklage’s seventh nomination in the category for playing Tyrion Lannister on the hit HBO series and his third win overall. He previously won the award in both 2011 and 2015.
Dinklage, who won Emmy for best supporting role, was nominated alongside fellow Game of Thrones actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, who plays his brother Jaime Lannister.
The reason why Dinklage wasn’t nominated for best lead actor in drama categories is because the cast chooses to submit themselves as supporting actors, respecting the fact they act in an ensemble in which there is no “lead.”
“A lot of the time with Tyrion, it’s professional and personal,” Dinklage shared in an interview earlier this year, “They’re the two people ( John Snow and Daenerys) he has the most in common with, they’re both outsiders in their own families who have refused to follow the path their family has taken, and hopefully for the better”.
In his acceptance speech, Dinklage thanked Coster-Waldau, who earned his first Emmy nomination for his work on Game of Thrones this year.
“It was a surprise,” Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, who plays Jaime Lannister, said in an interview earlier this month. “God, every time we got a new script I thought, ‘OK, this is probably going to be the one.’ But no. The Lannister kids made it to the end’.
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