Anthony Hopkins
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
Credits
- 2025 · Locked as William
- 2024 · Mary as King Herod
- 2024 · Those About to Die as Emperor Vespasian
- 2024 · Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver as Jimmy (voice)
- 2024 · Creating a Universe - The Making of Rebel Moon as Self
- 2023 · Freud's Last Session as Sigmund Freud
- 2023 · One Life as Nicholas Winton
- 2023 · Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire as Jimmy (voice)
- 2023 · Sly as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2022 · Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba as Self
- 2022 · The Son as Anthony
- 2022 · Armageddon Time as Aaron Rabinowitz
- 2022 · Where Are You as Thomas
- 2022 · Zero Contact as Finley Hart
- 2021 · Parkinson at 50 as Self (archive footage)
- 2021 · The Virtuoso as The Mentor
- 2021 · Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony as Self (archive footage)
- 2021 · Marvel Studios Legends as Odin (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2020 · The Father as Anthony
- 2020 · Elyse as Dr. Philip Lewis
- 2020 · Mythic Quest as Everlight Narrator (voice)
- 2019 · The Two Popes as Joseph Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI
- 2019 · Love, Antosha as Self (voice)
- 2018 · King Lear as Lear
- 2018 · Nothing Like a Dame as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2017 · Spielberg as John Quincy Adams (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2017 · Thor: Ragnarok as Odin
- 2017 · Transformers: The Last Knight as Sir Edmund Burton
- 2016 · Westworld as Dr. Robert Ford
- 2016 · Collide as Hagen Kahl
- 2016 · Misconduct as Arthur Denning
- 2015 · The Dresser as Sir
- 2015 · Blackway as Lester
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- 2015 · Solace as John Clancy
- 2015 · Kidnapping Mr. Heineken as Freddy Heineken
- 2014 · Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- 2014 · Noah as Methuselah
- 2013 · Thor: The Dark World as Odin
- 2013 · Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips as Self / Ieuan Davies
- 2013 · RED 2 as Bailey
- 2012 · Hitchcock as Alfred Hitchcock
- 2012 · 360 as John
- 2011 · Thor as Odin
- 2011 · The Rite as Father Lucas Trevant
- 2010 · You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger as Alfie
- 2010 · Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs as Self
- 2010 · The Third Rule as Fabian Hogarth
- 2010 · The Wolfman as Sir John Talbot
- 2010 · Bare Knuckles as Xavier Jonas (uncredited)
- 2009 · The City of Your Final Destination as Adam Gund
- 2007 · Beowulf as Hrothgar
- 2007 · Shortcut to Happiness as Daniel Webster
- 2007 · Fracture as Theodore Crawford
- 2007 · Slipstream as Felix Bonhoeffer
- 2006 · All the King's Men as Judge Irwin
- 2006 · Bobby as John Casey
- 2005 · A Tribute To Ismail Merchant as Self (archive footage)
- 2005 · The World's Fastest Indian as Burt Munro
- 2005 · Proof as Robert Llewellyn
- 2004 · Alexander as Old Ptolemy
- 2003 · The Human Stain as Coleman Silk
- 2003 · The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
- 2002 · Red Dragon as Hannibal Lecter
- 2002 · Bad Company as Oakes
- 2001 · Love & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day' as Self
- 2001 · Hearts in Atlantis as Ted Brautigan
- 2001 · Unmasking Zorro as Self
- 2001 · Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs' as Self
- 2001 · Hannibal as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
- 2000 · How the Grinch Stole Christmas as Narrator (voice)
- 2000 · Mission: Impossible II as Mission Commander Swanbeck (uncredited)
- 1999 · Titus as Titus Andronicus
- 1999 · Instinct as Dr. Ethan Powell
- 1998 · Meet Joe Black as William Parrish
- 1998 · The Mask of Zorro as Don Diego de la Vega / Zorro
- 1998 · Parkinson as Self
- 1997 · The Edge as Charles Morse
- 1997 · The View as Self
- 1996 · Surviving Picasso as Pablo Picasso
- 1996 · August as Ieuan Davies
- 1996 · The Daily Show as Self
- 1995 · Nixon as Richard Nixon
- 1995 · Screen Actors Guild Awards as
- 1994 · Legends of the Fall as Col. William Ludlow
- 1994 · The Road to Wellville as Dr. John Harvey Kellogg
- 1994 · Baseball as (voice)
- 1994 · Marlon Brando: The Wild One as Self
- 1993 · Shadowlands as C. S. 'Jack' Lewis
- 1993 · The Remains of the Day as James Stevens
- 1993 · The Innocent as Glass
- 1993 · Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- 1993 · The Trial as The Priest
- 1992 · Chaplin as George Hayden
- 1992 · Bram Stoker's Dracula as Professor Abraham Van Helsing
- 1992 · Earth and the American Dream as Reader (voice)
- 1992 · To Be the Best as
- 1992 · The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as Self
- 1992 · Howards End as Henry J. Wilcox
- 1992 · Spotswood as Errol Wallace
- 1992 · Freejack as Ian McCandless
- 1991 · Charlie Rose as Self
- 1991 · One Man’s War as Joel
- 1991 · The Silence of the Lambs as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
- 1989 · A Chorus of Disapproval as Dafydd Ap Llewellyn
- 1989 · Great Expectations as Abel Magwitch
- 1989 · Heartland as Jack
- 1988 · The Tenth Man as Jean Louis Cheval
- 1988 · LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest
- 1988 · Across the Lake as Donald Campbell
- 1988 · The Dawning as Cassius / Angus Barrie
- 1987 · 84 Charing Cross Road as Frank P. Doel
- 1987 · Blunt as Guy Burgess
- 1985 · The Good Father as Bill Hooper
- 1985 · Guilty Conscience as Arthur Jamison
- 1985 · Screen Two as The Priest
- 1985 · A Woman of Substance as Jack Figg
- 1984 · The Bounty as Lieutenant William Bligh
- 1983 · Natural World as
- 1983 · Harty as Self
- 1981 · Peter and Paul as Paul of Tarsus
- 1980 · The Elephant Man as Frederick Treves
- 1978 · Magic as Corky Withers/Fats (voice)
- 1978 · International Velvet as Captain Johnson
- 1977 · A Bridge Too Far as Lt. Col. John D. Frost
- 1977 · Audrey Rose as Elliot Hoover
- 1976 · Victory at Entebbe as Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
- 1976 · Dark Victory as Dr. Michael Grant
- 1975 · People's Choice Awards as Self - Presenter
- 1975 · People's Choice Awards as Self - Accepting Award
- 1974 · The Girl from Petrovka as Kostya
- 1974 · Juggernaut as Supt. John McCleod
- 1974 · QB VII as Adam Kelno
- 1973 · Black and Blue as Hi
- 1972 · The Edwardians as David Lloyd George
- 1972 · War & Peace as Pierre Bezukhov
- 1971 · The Ten Commandments as Steve
- 1970 · Play for Today as Alexander Tashkov
- 1970 · Play for Today as Bob Goodliffe
- 1969 · Hamlet as Claudius
- 1969 · Department S as Greg Halliday
- 1968 · 60 Minutes as Self
- 1968 · The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- 1967 · The White Bus as Brechtian
- 1965 · BBC Play of the Month as Alfred Allmers
- 1965 · BBC Play of the Month as Edmund Kean
- 1965 · BBC Play of the Month as Andrey
- 1965 · BBC Play of the Month as Astrov
- 1965 · The Man in Room 17 as Dr. Harding
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Host
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Co-Host
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- 1952 · Today as Self
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter
- Future · Eyes in the Trees as Dr. Addis
- 1985 · Hollywood Wives as Neil Gray
- 1984 · Six Centuries of Verse as Self - Reader
- 1982 · Little Eyolf as Alfred Allmers
- 1981 · Othello as Othello
- 1981 · The Bunker as Adolf Hitler
- 1980 · A Change of Seasons as Adam Evans
- 1976 · The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case as Bruno Richard Hauptmann
- 1973 · A Doll's House as Torvald Helmer
- 1972 · Young Winston as David Llyod George
- 1972 · Poet Game as Hugh Saunders
- 1970 · The Three Sisters as Andrey
- 1970 · The Looking Glass War as John Avery
- 1969 · Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt as Wat Tyler
- 1968 · The Lion in Winter as Richard
- 1968 · Red, White, and Zero as Brechtian
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Siegfried
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Quasimodo
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Jean Louis Chavel
- Future · The King of Covent Garden as Georg Friedrich Händel
- 2026 · The Housekeeper as Lord DeWithers
- 2014 · Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film as Self
- 2012 · Marvel Studios: Building a Cinematic Universe as Self
- 2011 · Thor: From Asgard to Earth as Self
- 2010 · Hannibal Lecter, l'icône du mal par excellence as Self
- 2007 · The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' as Self (archive footage)
- 2007 · Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends as Self
- 2005 · Nos Bastidores de Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
- 2005 · The True Story of Hannibal as Self
- 2003 · Celebrities Uncensored as Self
- 2003 · A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon' as Self
- 2001 · Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal as Self
- 2001 · Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul as Self
- 2001 · The Remains of the Day: The Filmmaker's Journey as Self
- 2001 · Blind Loyalty, Hollow Honor: England's Fatal Flaw as Self
- 2000 · The Many Faces of Zorro as Self
- 1999 · Siegfried & Roy: The Magic Box as Narrator
- 1999 · Little Secret as Narrator
- 1998 · Junket Whore as Self
- 1997 · Amistad as John Quincy Adams
- 1997 · Predators Killing for a Living as
- 1997 · The Lost Children of Berlin as Narrator
- 1996 · Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels as Self
- 1994 · Inside the Actors Studio as Self
- 1992 · Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man. The Myth. The Movies. as Self
- 1991 · The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs' as Self
- 1990 · Desperate Hours as Tim Cornell
- 1985 · Mussolini and I as Count Galeazzo Ciano
- 1984 · Arch of Triumph as Dr. Ravic
- 1983 · A Married Man as John Strickland
- 1982 · The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Quasimodo
- 1979 · Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure as Captain Jones
- 1975 · All Creatures Great and Small as Siegfried Farnon
- 1970 · Hearts and Flowers as Bob
- Future · A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf as Hrothgar
- Future · A Visit to Grandpa’s as
- Future · Wife & Dog as
- 1974 · The Arcata Promise as Theo Gunge
- 1974 · The Childhood Friend as Alexander Tashkov
- 1972 · The Man Outside as Albert Watts
- Future · Cus & Mike as Cus D’Amato
- 1973 · The Middle-of-the-Road Roadshow for All the Family as Hi
- 1971 · When Eight Bells Toll as Philip Calvert
- Future · Bruno Penguin and the Staten Island Princess as Ben Windsor
- Future · Maserati: The Brothers as Luca Antonelli
- 1970 · Uncle Vanya as
- Future · Untitled Anthony Hopkins Documentary as Self
- 1989 · Faroe Islands as (voice)
- 1970 · The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens as Charles Dickens