Actor Anthony Hopkins

Anthony Hopkins
Photo of actor Anthony Hopkins
Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins CBE (born 31 December 1937) 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Anthony Hopkins, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of birth
Margam, Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales, UK Margam, Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales, UK
Date of birth
31st December 1937
Movies that starred Anthony Hopkins (31 in total)
Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver poster

Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver [2024]

Jimmy (voice)
Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire poster

Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire [2023]

Jimmy (voice)
Freud's Last Session poster

Freud's Last Session [2023]

Sigmund Freud
The Father poster

The Father [2020]

Anthony
The Two Popes poster

The Two Popes [2019]

Joseph Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI
Thor: Ragnarok poster

Thor: Ragnarok [2017]

Odin
Transformers: The Last Knight poster

Transformers: The Last Knight [2017]

Sir Edmund Burton
Solace poster

Solace [2015]

John Clancy
Noah poster

Noah [2014]

Methuselah
Thor: The Dark World poster

Thor: The Dark World [2013]

Odin
RED 2 poster

RED 2 [2013]

Bailey
Thor poster

Thor [2011]

Odin
The Rite poster

The Rite [2011]

Father Lucas Trevant
The Wolfman poster

The Wolfman [2010]

Sir John Talbot
Fracture poster

Fracture [2007]

Theodore Crawford
Beowulf poster

Beowulf [2007]

Hrothgar
All the King's Men poster

All the King's Men [2006]

Judge Irwin
Bobby poster

Bobby [2006]

John Casey
The World's Fastest Indian poster

The World's Fastest Indian [2005]

Burt Munro
Proof poster

Proof [2005]

Robert Llewellyn
Alexander poster

Alexander [2004]

Old Ptolemy
Red Dragon poster

Red Dragon [2002]

Hannibal Lecter
Bad Company poster

Bad Company [2002]

Oakes
Hannibal poster

Hannibal [2001]

Dr. Hannibal Lecter
Meet Joe Black poster

Meet Joe Black [1998]

William Parrish
The Mask of Zorro poster

The Mask of Zorro [1998]

Don Diego de la Vega / Zorro
The Edge poster

The Edge [1997]

Charles Morse
Amistad poster

Amistad [1997]

John Quincy Adams
Legends of the Fall poster

Legends of the Fall [1994]

Col. William Ludlow
Bram Stoker's Dracula poster

Bram Stoker's Dracula [1992]

Professor Abraham Van Helsing
The Silence of the Lambs poster

The Silence of the Lambs [1991]

Dr. Hannibal Lecter
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