
Anthony Hopkins
Born: 1937-12-31
Place of Birth: Margam, Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales, UK
Biography
Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins CBE (born December 31, 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.
Known For

How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Thor

Thor: Ragnarok

Thor: The Dark World

Transformers: The Last Knight

Meet Joe Black

Mission: Impossible II

Fracture

Bram Stoker's Dracula

Locked

Legends of the Fall

Alexander

The Mask of Zorro

The Virtuoso

Chaplin

Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver

Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire

Instinct

RED 2

Noah

Desperate Hours

Mary

The Elephant Man

The Silence of the Lambs

Nixon

The Father

Young Winston

Bobby

The Dawning

Freejack

A Bridge Too Far

Shadowlands

One Life

King Lear

Titus

Surviving Picasso

Slipstream

The Rite

The World's Fastest Indian

Audrey Rose

Beowulf

The Wolfman

The Innocent

Shortcut to Happiness

Solace

Juggernaut

Bare Knuckles

The Son

Hitchcock

Love, Antosha

Hamlet

Blackway

Zero Contact

Poet Game

The Remains of the Day

Junket Whore

The Edge

The Two Popes

August

Othello

Dark Victory

Sly

Heartland

Elyse

The Bounty

The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case

Howards End

The Many Faces of Zorro

Bad Company

Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure

Collide

International Velvet

Blunt

Little Eyolf

The Lion in Winter

The Human Stain

Guilty Conscience

Red Dragon

Freud's Last Session

Kidnapping Mr. Heineken

Proof

Armageddon Time

Hannibal

Misconduct

Where Are You

Magic

All the King's Men

Spielberg

Hearts in Atlantis

The Bunker

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'

Faroe Islands

The Road to Wellville

360

Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels

84 Charing Cross Road

The Three Sisters

The Lost Children of Berlin

Amistad

The White Bus

The Girl from Petrovka

Maserati: The Brothers

Spotswood

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

The Tenth Man

The Looking Glass War

Earth and the American Dream

Across the Lake

The Dresser

The City of Your Final Destination

Victory at Entebbe

The Childhood Friend

Nothing Like a Dame

When Eight Bells Toll

All Creatures Great and Small

A Doll's House

A Change of Seasons

The Trial

Red, White, and Zero

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

Creating a Universe - The Making of Rebel Moon

The Good Father

Parkinson at 50

Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips

Marvel Studios: Building a Cinematic Universe

Hannibal Lecter, l'icône du mal par excellence

Marlon Brando: The Wild One

Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal

One Man’s War

Unmasking Zorro

The Arcata Promise

Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'

Arch of Triumph

The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'

Thor: From Asgard to Earth

Siegfried & Roy: The Magic Box

Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film

The Third Rule

A Chorus of Disapproval

Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs

Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt

A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'

The Remains of the Day: The Filmmaker's Journey

Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man. The Myth. The Movies.

Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends

Love & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day'

A Tribute To Ismail Merchant

Blind Loyalty, Hollow Honor: England's Fatal Flaw

The Middle-of-the-Road Roadshow for All the Family
