Anthony Hopkins
Biography
Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins CBE is a Welsh actor, film director, and film producer. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, four British Academy Film Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards and a British Academy Television Award. He has also received an honorary Golden Globe Award and the BAFTA Fellowship from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. In 1993, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to the arts, and in 2003, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his achievements in the motion picture industry.
After graduating from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 1957, Hopkins trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and was then spotted by Laurence Olivier who invited him to join the Royal National Theatre in 1965. Productions at the National included King Lear, his favourite Shakespeare play. His last stage play was a West End production of M. Butterfly in 1989.
In 1968, Hopkins achieved recognition in film, playing Richard the Lionheart in The Lion in Winter. In the mid-1970s, Richard Attenborough, who directed five Hopkins films, called him "the greatest actor of his generation." In 1991, he portrayed Hannibal Lecter in the psychological horror film The Silence of the Lambs, winning the Academy Award for Best Actor. He reprised the role in its sequel Hannibal and the prequel Red Dragon. Other notable films include The Elephant Man (1980), 84 Charing Cross Road (1987), Howards End (1992), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), Shadowlands (1993), Legends of the Fall (1994), Meet Joe Black (1998), The Mask of Zorro (1998), Thor (2011), Thor: The Dark World (2013), Transformers: The Last Knight (2017), and Thor: Ragnarok (2017). He received four more Academy Award nominations for The Remains of the Day (1993), Nixon (1995), Amistad (1997) and The Two Popes (2019) before winning a fourth BAFTA Award and a second Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of an elderly man diagnosed with dementia in The Father (2020), becoming the oldest Best Actor Oscar winner to date.
Since making his television debut with the BBC in 1967, Hopkins has continued to appear on television. In 1973 he received a British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for his performance in War and Peace. In 2015, he starred in the BBC film The Dresser alongside Ian McKellen. In 2018, he starred in King Lear opposite Emma Thompson. In 2016 and 2018, he starred in the HBO television series Westworld, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
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Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1937-12-31
Place of birth
Margam, Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales, UK
Images
Cast
The Silence of the Lambs
1991
8.35
Meet Joe Black
1998
7.35
Mission: Impossible II
2000
6.13
The Remains of the Day
1993
7.36
Zero Contact
2022
3.90
Thor
2011
6.77
All the King's Men
2006
5.77
Beowulf
2007
5.90
Bad Company
2002
5.49
Alexander
2004
5.94
The Elephant Man
1980
8.05
The Bounty
1984
6.69
Bobby
2006
6.42
Chaplin
1992
7.40
Shadowlands
1993
6.89
The Road to Wellville
1994
5.57
The Human Stain
2003
6.02
Nixon
1995
6.87
Legends of the Fall
1994
7.39
Locked
2025
6.32
A Bridge Too Far
1977
7.23
Victory at Entebbe
1976
5.10
Hearts in Atlantis
2001
6.74
The Son
2022
6.70
Fracture
2007
7.27
Armageddon Time
2022
6.47
The Wolfman
2010
5.88
Amistad
1997
7.02
Desperate Hours
1990
5.47
Howards End
1992
7.00
Instinct
1999
6.50
The Edge
1997
6.84
Red Dragon
2002
7.03
Freejack
1992
5.44
Hannibal
2001
6.77
Proof
2005
6.33
The Mask of Zorro
1998
6.58
Titus
1999
6.45
Magic
1978
6.83
Shortcut to Happiness
2003
5.60
The World's Fastest Indian
2005
7.70
The Bunker
1981
6.30
Bare Knuckles
2010
3.30
Across the Lake
1988
5.80
International Velvet
1978
7.40
Juggernaut
1974
6.20
Surviving Picasso
1996
5.77
A Doll's House
1973
5.50
Hamlet
1969
5.70
A Change of Seasons
1980
5.65
84 Charing Cross Road
1987
7.15
The Girl from Petrovka
1974
5.21
The Arcata Promise
1974
0.00
When Eight Bells Toll
1971
5.70
The Looking Glass War
1970
5.50
The Good Father
1985
5.70
Spotswood
1992
5.38
Guilty Conscience
1985
5.97
Young Winston
1972
6.20
The Rite
2011
6.12
Audrey Rose
1977
5.60
Slipstream
2007
4.95
The Lion in Winter
1968
7.38
The Trial
1993
5.80
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1982
5.82
The Third Rule
2010
6.00
The Innocent
1993
6.06
Thor: The Dark World
2013
6.52
Noah
2014
5.67
The White Bus
1967
6.08
360
2012
5.71
The Three Sisters
1970
6.00
Uncle Vanya
1970
6.00
The Tenth Man
1988
6.69
Little Eyolf
1982
6.00
Arch of Triumph
1984
5.00
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
2021
4.50
Hitchcock
2012
6.56
A Chorus of Disapproval
1989
5.24
RED 2
2013
6.53
Othello
1981
6.22
August
1996
4.00
The Dawning
1988
5.40
Parkinson at 50
2021
10.00
One Man’s War
1991
6.80
Kidnapping Mr. Heineken
2015
6.01
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
1976
6.40
Nothing Like a Dame
2018
6.80
A Tribute To Ismail Merchant
2005
10.00
Faroe Islands
1989
0.00
Freud's Last Session
2023
6.72
Collide
2016
5.50
Solace
2015
6.41
Blackway
2015
5.30
Sly
2023
7.23
Spielberg
2017
7.57
Dark Victory
1976
0.00
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005
0.00
Mary
2024
6.30
The Dresser
2015
6.21
Misconduct
2016
5.63
Red, White, and Zero
1979
5.00
Thor: Ragnarok
2017
7.58
Junket Whore
1998
0.00
Transformers: The Last Knight
2017
6.05
Little Secret
1999
0.00
Poet Game
1972
0.00
Thor: From Asgard to Earth
2011
6.98
All Creatures Great and Small
1975
6.60
Siegfried & Roy: The Magic Box
1999
6.00
Blunt
1987
4.80
King Lear
2018
6.05
The Two Popes
2019
7.49
Hearts and Flowers
1970
6.00
The Father
2020
8.11
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
1994
6.00
Earth and the American Dream
1992
6.70
Where Are You
2022
1.86
Bram Stoker's Dracula
1992
7.40
Heartland
1989
6.00
Love, Antosha
2019
7.34
Cus & Mike
0.00
The Childhood Friend
1974
6.00
The Lost Children of Berlin
1997
6.00
The True Story of Hannibal
2005
6.71
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
2000
6.77
One Life
2023
7.79
Elyse
2020
5.40
The Virtuoso
2021
5.88
Maserati: The Brothers
2025
0.00
The Housekeeper
0.00
Wife & Dog
0.00
The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens
1970
0.00
Unmasking Zorro
2001
6.00
