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  1. Jan 28, 2022 · Peter Dinklage's real-life love story with wife Erica Schmidt is the stuff movies are made of! Find out the romantic way they met and all about their family life.

    • She's An Award-Winning Playwright and Theater Director
    • Dinklage Says He Begged Schmidt For His Role in Cyrano
    • She and Dinklage Met in New York City
    • She and Dinklage Eloped in Las Vegas
    • She and Dinklage Have Two Children Together
    • Dinklage Thanked Her After He Won An Emmy

    While Schmidt is mostly known for writing Cyrano, the talented playwright-director has received numerous accolades for her work. In 2001, she was awarded the Robert and Gloria Hausman Theater Honor from the Princess Grace Foundation, which supports emerging performers in theatre, dance and film. Her 2019 all-female adaptation of Mac Beth earned Dra...

    In a 2021 interview with CBS News, Dinklage admitted to begging his wife for the role of Cyrano. "Erica told us, that you begged her for the part?" 60 Minutescorrespondent Lesley Stahl asked the actor. " 'Begged'? Yeah. I mean, essentially, yes, that's true," Dinklage responded. "For an actor, you always wanna do something that — for me at least — ...

    Dinklage described meeting Schmidt as something out of a "crazy, romantic movie." In a 2021 interview with The New York Times, Dinklage said the two met at a mutual friend's house in N.Y.C. "It was about 18 years ago now. We were all at a friend's house and someone said, 'They're walking the elephants through the Queens-Midtown Tunnel.' The circus ...

    In 2005, Dinklage and Schmidt eloped in Las Vegas. "I was going there for a charity event," Dinklage said during a 2016 interview with The New York Times. "And then while we were there, we just decided to do it. It was a bit lonely. We got a VHS videocassette of the wedding that no one will ever see, that we've buried in a box deep beneath the eart...

    Schmidt and Dinklage welcomed a daughter in 2011 and a second child in 2017. Although Schmidt was pregnant at the opening of her 2017 play, All the Fine Boys, the ultra-private couple have yet to share the sex of their second child. Both of their children's names are still a mystery to the public as well, but Dinklage has had quite a few laughs abo...

    The couple prefer to keep the details of their personal life private. However, that doesn't stop the actor from raving about his wife during interviews and acceptance speeches. After winning an Emmy Award in 2018 for his role as Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones, Dinklage made it a point to thank Schmidt during his acceptance speech. After briefl...

  2. Dec 7, 2021 · ‘Cyrano’ Writer Erica Schmidt Reveals One Thing Nixed From Original Play for Musical. Schmidt also tells THR what drew husband Peter Dinklage to the project.

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  4. Nov 16, 2023 · Game of Thrones’ Peter Dinklage has had a lengthy career — and an equally long and successful marriage to wife Erica Schmidt. The twosome met nearly two decades ago at a mutual friend’s...

  5. Feb 24, 2022 · Peter Dinklage and wife Erica Schmidt are rolling out their new film. The Emmy-winning actor, 52, plays the title role in the movie musical Cyrano, directed by Joe Wright ( Atonement) and...

  6. Erica Schmidt is a Princess Grace Award-winning writer, theatre director, and actor who rose to prominence as the spouse of Peter Dinklage, the Emmy Award-winning star of “ Game of Thrones .”

  7. Jul 12, 2023 · Maggie Siff and Erica Schmidt on a Williams Play ‘Shot Through With Desire’. “Orpheus Descending,” a rarely revived play about the treatment of outsiders, has only become more meaningful for...

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