Peter Dinklage is taking home a Screen Actors Guild Award after seven nominations for best actor.

Dinklage, 50, a Morristown native who grew up in Mendham, wins the honor for playing Tyrion Lannister in “Game of Thrones.”

The actor has received six nominations in the male actor in a drama series category for playing Tyrion, but this is his first win.

Dinklage was first nominated for outstanding performance by a male actor in a leading role at the 2004 SAG Awards for his performance in the New Jersey-set film “The Station Agent.”

In his acceptance speech, Dinklage thanked the people of Northern Ireland, where “Game of Thrones” filmed. He also thanked his wife, Erica Schmidt. Dinklage said that over his nine years filming the series, she “lived in a place far away from home but made it home because we were together.”

Dinklage has been nominated alongside the cast of “Game of Thrones” for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama series seven times, starting with the 2012 SAG Awards. He was first nominated for his performance as Tyrion at the 2014 SAG Awards.

Dinklage has won four Emmys for playing the “Game of Thrones” character, his most recent in September, when he became the winningest actor in Emmys history in the supporting actor category. At the same ceremony, “Game of Thrones” won its fourth Emmy for best drama series.

The cast of “Game of Thrones” was nominated at the SAG Awards this year for ensemble in a drama series, but lost to “The Crown."

The HBO series, which finished its eighth and final season in May, is based on the “A Song of Ice and Fire” series of books from Bayonne’s George R.R. Martin, an executive producer of the show.

In 2018, Dinklage also shared in a SAG ensemble win as part of the film “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.”

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