When people are infected by my charm, they don’t see my size. My piercing deep blue eyes are distracting.”

Peter Dinklage did not just hit the nail on the head, he hammered it when he said that. A dwarf with achondroplasia, he owns the word swag! Ask any Game of Thrones fan about his favourite character and without fail you’d get the answer — Tyrion Lannister. So much so that there is a version of the GoT theme sung entirely with only the name Peter Dinklage. It goes Pe-ter Dink-lage PeterDinklage PeterDinklage PeterDinklage PeterDinklage. Yes, yes you are humming it just right!

The acerbic-tongued youngest Lannister was instantly likeable, but by the time season two of Game of Thrones came to a close he had become the favourite of most GoT fans, elbowing out even Daenerys Targaryen, Jon Snow and Arya Stark. In the fifth season of GoT, episodes without a Tyrion scene feel incomplete.

Refusing to be typecast, especially as an elf or a dwarf with “pointy shoes and beards”, Dinklage has made people look beyond his size and respect him as an actor and fall in love/lust with the man.

We take a look at all the things that makes Peter Dinklage the coolest guy on the planet!