Biographies

Best known for his breakout role in The Station Agent, which drew standing ovations at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival and won the Sundance Audience Award, American actor Peter Dinklage has appeared in numerous films, theatre and television productions, including Nip/Tuck, 30 Rock, Chronicles of Narnia, Elf and Death at a Funeral. For his role in The Station Agent, Dinklage was nominated for best actor in the 2004 SAG Awards and the Independent Spirit Awards. He was named one of the top five "breakout stars" of the year by Entertainment Weekly and prominently featured in People's "Sexiest Man Alive" issue. He recently filmed St John of Las Vegas with Steve Buscemi and Sarah Silverman, and Pete Smalls is Dead with Buscemi and Tim Roth (on which he is also a producer). He also stars in the American remake of "Death at a Funeral" starring Chris Rock. On stage, Dinklage starred in a Lincoln Center production on the life of painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec for director Martha Clark, the title role in The Public Theatre's critically acclaimed Richard III, and Charlie Kaufman's Theatre of the New Ear co-starring Meryl Streep and Hope Davis.

Character: Charlie

Charlie is a widower searching for love; a photographer, a Renaissance man, a romantic and, ultimately, a reluctant mentor to Jim. A letter writer who misses his late wife, Beth, he hopes to fulfill Beth's dying wish for him to deliver a love letter to the most beautiful woman in the world, Francesca. He wrote it three years ago but hasn't yet been able to bring himself to deliver it.