It was my film agent who got me a film deal.

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Dinklage, who has a form of dwarfism, came to prominence in the 2003 independent film The Station Agent.

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In his 2003 film The Station Agent, he played a man who moved to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude after the death of his only friend.

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"Some are more famous than others and some are just talented young people who are around, " says Figgis, who recently directed model Kate Moss in a short film for lingerie company Agent Provocateur.

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Maya, a young CIA agent who is the film's heroine, watches.

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She has since appeared in more than 40 movies, winning best actress Oscars for her role as a rape victim in 1988 film The Accused and as the FBI agent Clarice Starling in 1991's The Silence of The Lambs.

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An agent at United Talent Agency began shopping film rights.

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He'll star in the director's 2008 film, You Don't Mess With the Zohan, about a Mossad agent who fakes his death to become a New York City hairdresser.

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