Actor Who Played Title Character

I don't think Peter Dinklage and Corban Walker look alike...unless you mean they are both Little People? Their facial features have many differences, eye shape, mouth shape, chin shape ("You have a nice chin" Michelle Williams to PD in The Station Agent), very different! IMO

Chet Raymo, the author of the novel ("The Dork of Cork") that "Frankie Starlight" is based on, and the co-screenwriter, writes this at his blog (www.sciencemusings.com):

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My wife has always given me a hard time for "judging people by their looks," and she is no doubt right. I have long admired her own ability to see past superficialities to the central core of a person.

I wanted to explore this theme in the novel that became The Dork of Cork. We were living in Cork, Ireland, at the time, and I was casting about for a central character, someone who was not beautiful by Hollywood standards but a person of exceptional character. One day in the Irish Times I saw a photograph of a young Irish artist who had opened a show in a Dublin gallery. He was a dwarf. There was something about the artist's face that attracted me. A gentleness and strength. An unconventional beauty. Knowing nothing else about the man, I said to myself: "Here is my hero."

With the artist's face and physique in my mind's eye, I invented my story. Frank Bois is a stargazer and a writer, not an artist, but to me he looked exactly like the artist I had seen in the Irish Times. The first sentence of the book is "Begin with beauty." The last sentence is "Hold me." It is, of course, a love story.

The Irish producer Noel Pearson read the book and decided to make the movie. We knew that casting Frank Bois would not be easy. After some weeks of fruitless searching on the part of the casting director, Noel called me from Ireland. He said, "I think we have found the perfect person to play Frank. He is a young Dublin artist..."

So, yes, Corban Walker played the character his photograph had inspired. He has gone on to establish himself as a sculptor of considerable renown.
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