Anthony Hopkins

Acting

Born Dec 31, 1937

From Margam, Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales, UK

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.

Anthony Hopkins

Known For

Thor: Ragnarok

Thor

Meet Joe Black

Thor: The Dark World

Mission: Impossible II

Bram Stoker's Dracula

Transformers: The Last Knight

How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Noah

The Father

Filmography — Acting

Thor: Ragnarok

Thor

Meet Joe Black

Thor: The Dark World

Mission: Impossible II

Bram Stoker's Dracula

Transformers: The Last Knight

How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Noah

The Father

Alexander

Legends of the Fall

Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire

The Mask of Zorro

Bobby

Beowulf

Fracture

Locked

Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver

The Elephant Man

RED 2

One Life

The Lion in Winter

A Bridge Too Far

The Silence of the Lambs

The Wolfman

The Edge

The Son

The World's Fastest Indian

Solace

Mary

Hitchcock

The Bounty

The Rite

Nixon

The Remains of the Day

The Two Popes

Hearts in Atlantis

Chaplin

Misconduct

Bad Company

Instinct

Howards End

Freud's Last Session

Sly

Spielberg

The Virtuoso

Blackway

Freejack

Collide

360

Armageddon Time

All the King's Men

Titus

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

King Lear

Wife & Dog

Hannibal

Magic

Proof

Love, Antosha

Hannibal Lecter, l'icône du mal par excellence

The Road to Wellville

Spotswood

Kidnapping Mr. Heineken

Desperate Hours

Juggernaut