'Game of Thrones' cast news & update: Peter Dinklage bags second Emmy for playing Tyrion Lannister

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This year's 67th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards celebrated diversity, with Viola Davis becoming the first black woman to win an outstanding lead award for her work in "How to Get Away with Murder." Davis was just among the colored women to successfully bring home an Emmy, as did Uzo Aduba for her work in "Orange is the New Black" and Regina King's win as Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Movie.

"Game of Thrones" was not surprisingly another major winner in this year's Emmy's, winning 12 awards, BBC reports. For the first time since it first aired, Game of Thrones won Best Drama Series, and for the second time, one of the show's stars, Peter Dinklage, won his second Best Supporting Actor trophy.

"I wasn't prepared, because the other actors in my category, I'm still sort of awed by all their performances," Dinklage said onstage upon accepting the award. People reports that his fellow actors in the category included Jonathan Banks for "Better Call Saul," Ben Mendelsohn for "Bloodline," Jim Carter for "Downton Abbey," Alan Cumming for "The Good Wife" and Michael Kelly for "House of Cards."

Viola Davis presented the award to Dinklage, who plays Tyrion Lannister on the highly anticipated Game of Thrones, which returns in Spring 2016.

Backstage at the Emmys, Dinklage, who also appeared in "X-Men: Days of Future Past" as Dr. Bolivar Trask, spoke out about the challenges of "being different", telling USA Today that he owed his success to his parents and teachers.

"I had really great parents, and some really great teachers. And that's all you need really," he said. 

He also spoke out about bullying, saying, "Bullying is a worldwide epidemic. None of us are really spared from it."

The twice-honored Dinklage spoke to The Guardian in August about Tyrion Lannister, saying, "I think Tyrion can be the most relatable to the modern sensibility because he’s not a hero and not a villain. He has a sense of humour even in the worst of times. Who relates to Ned Stark? Is he anybody sitting at the dinner table? But Tyrion is one of the dinner party."

He also talked about how Hollywood is addressing diversity. "There is a different definition of the leading man now. It’s fantastic. You look at the leading men of the past and they are very different. Hollywood is finally opening the door wider to more realistic portrayals of who people are. It’s not just about beautiful Hollywood stars," he said.