Jonathan Dinklage: Facts About Peter Dinklage’s Brother

Jonathan Dinklage is a lead violin player for ‘Hamilton. He is the older brother of Peter Dinklage. His parents are John Carl Dinklage and Diane Dinklage. Jonathan is well known for his work as a professional violin player. He has worked with famous craftsmen like Lady Gaga, Michael Jackson, and others. Jonathan is also known for Rush: Cinema Strangiato 2019 (2019), Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012), and Hamilton (2020). Jonathan Dinklage’s age and the actual date of birth are yet to be discovered.

Jonathan Dinklage: Bio Summary

Family

Jonathan was born to John Carl Dinklage and Diane Dinklage. His mother, Diane was an elementary school music teacher while his father John was an insurance salesman who led an ordinary life working a 9 to 5 job. He is the brother of actor and producer Peter Hayden Dinklage. Jonathan is also the husband of Kailee Graham.

Jonathan’s father was born on October 24, 1931, in Morristown, Morris County, NJ, United States. His parents are Ray Dinklage, and Florence Dinklage. He holds an American nationality and Irish-German ethnicity. Jonathan’s father passed away at the age of 72, on June 27, 2004, in Brookside, Alabama. He died a natural death due to his age. On the other hand, Jonathan’s mother Diane was born in the year 1943 to her parents, John Hayden and Eileen Dinklage.

Jonathan Dinklage Personal Life

Jonathan is married to his wife Kailee Graham, who is an actress. They planned to get married after the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Jonathan’s friend, actor Paul Rudd, then got an officiant’s license to marry Jonathan and Kailee. The couple had their actual marriage in the presence of their family members. Jonathan Dinklage and Kailee Graham celebrated their marriage with a festive reception on June 27 at Mullaney’s Harp & Fiddle in the Strip District.

Jonathan Dinklage: Career

Jonathan Dinklage is a professional violinist who prefers music rather than acting. He is known as a violin player who is a concertmaster for the Broadway run of hamilton. In elementary school, Jonathan picked up the violin for the first time after his parents took him to a performance by the New Jersey Symphony.

By fourth grade, he was playing violin in the Abbey Orchestra, a community group conducted by Roy Horton, music director at Delbarton, the private school in Morristown. Although schooled in the classical repertoire, he was mainly drawn to rock and jazz.

He played his prize instrument, a white Barcus-Berry electric violin, in local bands, covering the music of Van Halen and other rock favorites by his eighth grade. His musical education later continued at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers.

Jonathan has amassed Broadway credits as a regular or substitute player for about 15 shows. He was the concertmaster for the musical Matilda when a friend asked him to play for the first reading of new hip-hop musical about Alexander Hamilton. He is a lead violin player for ‘Hamilton.’ He became the main violin player for Hamilton in 2018.

He has acted in co-activity with the Sesame Street band on the specials When You Wish Upon a Pickle and The Magical Wand Chase. He has worked with famous craftsmen like Lady Gaga, Michael Jackson, and others as a violin player. His film soundtracks incorporate The Caller and Beast of the Southern Wild.

Who Is Jonathan Dinklage’s Brother?

Actor and producer Peter Hayden Dinklage is Jonathan Dinklage’s brother. Peter was born on June 11, 1969, in the Jersey Shore region of New Jersey. He has played several roles and was cast as Tyrion Lannister on the HBO television series Game of Thrones (2011–2019).

He appeared as Eitri in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Avengers: Infinity War and Hervé Villechaize in the biopic film My Dinner with Hervé. He acted in films including Elf (2003), Lassie (2005), Find Me Guilty (2006), Penelope (2006), Underdog (2007), Death at a Funeral (2007), and The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008), etc.

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Jonathan’s brother has an issue called achondroplasia which affects bone growth. He married a theater director Erica Schmidt, in 2005. They have two children. Their first daughter was born in 2011 and their second child was born in 2017.