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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Anthony Hopkins, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Credits
- 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
- 2022 · Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba as Self
- 2021 · Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony as Self (archive footage)
- 2018 · Nothing Like a Dame as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2015 · The Dresser as Sir
- 2010 · Bare Knuckles as Xavier Jonas (uncredited)
- 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 · Slipstream as Felix Bonhoeffer
- 2005 · Nos Bastidores de Hollywood as Self
- 2002 · Red Dragon as Hannibal Lecter
- 2001 · Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal as Self
- 2001 · Hannibal as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
- 1999 · Siegfried & Roy: The Magic Box as Narrator
- 1998 · Junket Whore as Self
- 1997 · Amistad as John Quincy Adams
- 1996 · Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels as Self
- 1995 · Nixon as Richard Nixon
- 1995 · Screen Actors Guild Awards as
- 1994 · Inside the Actors Studio as Self
- 1993 · The Innocent as Glass
- 1993 · The Trial as The Priest
- 1992 · Earth and the American Dream as Reader (voice)
- 1992 · To Be the Best as
- 1992 · Spotswood as Errol Wallace
- 1992 · Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man. The Myth. The Movies. as Self
- 1991 · Great Expectations as Abel Magwitch
- 1991 · One Man’s War as Joel
- 1989 · A Chorus of Disapproval as Dafydd Ap Llewellyn
- 1988 · The Tenth Man as Jean Louis Cheval
- 1985 · The Good Father as Bill Hooper
- 1985 · Mussolini and I as Count Galeazzo Ciano
- 1985 · Mussolini and I as Count Galeazzo Ciano
- 1985 · Hollywood Wives as Neil Gray
- 1984 · Arch of Triumph as Dr. Ravic
- 1983 · A Married Man as John Strickland
- 1982 · The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Quasimodo
- 1981 · Othello as Othello
- 1981 · The Bunker as Adolph Hitler
- 1980 · A Change of Seasons as Adam Evans
- 1978 · International Velvet as Captain Johnson
- 1977 · Audrey Rose as Elliot Hoover
- 1976 · Victory at Entebbe as Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
- 1975 · All Creatures Great and Small as Siegfried Farnon
- 1974 · The Girl from Petrovka as Kostya
- 1974 · QB VII as Adam Kelno
- 1973 · Black and Blue as
- 1972 · Young Winston as David Llyod George
- 1971 · When Eight Bells Toll as Philip Calvert
- 1970 · The Looking Glass War as John Avery
- 1967 · The White Bus 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 · Locked as William
- Future · A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf as Hrothgar
- 2025 · Maserati: The Brothers as Luca Antonelli
- 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 · 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 · 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
- 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 · 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 · Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film 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: From Asgard to Earth as Self
- 2011 · Thor: Assembling the Troupe as Himself
- 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
- 2009 · The City of Your Final Destination as Adam Gund
- 2007 · Beowulf as Hrothgar
- 2007 · Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends as Self
- 2007 · Fracture as Theodore Crawford
- 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
- 2005 · The True Story of Hannibal as Self
- 2004 · Alexander as Old Ptolemy
- 2003 · The Human Stain as Coleman Silk
- 2003 · The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
- 2003 · Shortcut to Happiness as Daniel Webster
- 2003 · Celebrities Uncensored as Self
- 2003 · A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon' as Himself
- 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 · Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs' 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 · How the Grinch Stole Christmas as Narrator (voice)
- 2000 · Mission: Impossible II as Mission Commander Swanbeck (uncredited)
- 1999 · Titus as Titus Andronicus
- 1999 · Little Secret as Narrator
- 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 · Predators Killing for a Living as
- 1997 · The View as Self
- 1997 · The Lost Children of Berlin as Narrator
- 1996 · Surviving Picasso as Pablo Picasso
- 1996 · August as Ieuan Davies
- 1996 · The Daily Show as Self
- 1994 · Legends of the Fall as Col. William Ludlow
- 1994 · The Road to Wellville as Dr. John Harvey Kellogg
- 1994 · Baseball as Various (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 · Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- 1992 · Chaplin as George Hayden
- 1992 · Bram Stoker's Dracula as Professor Abraham Van Helsing
- 1992 · The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as Self
- 1992 · Howards End as Henry J. Wilcox
- 1992 · Freejack as Ian McCandless
- 1991 · Charlie Rose as Self
- 1991 · The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs' as Self
- 1991 · The Silence of the Lambs as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
- 1990 · Desperate Hours as Tim Cornell
- 1989 · Heartland as Jack
- 1989 · Faroe Islands as (voice)
- 1988 · LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest
- 1988 · The Dawning as Cassius / Angus Barrie
- 1988 · Across the Lake as Donald Campbell
- 1987 · 84 Charing Cross Road as Frank P. Doel
- 1987 · Blunt as Guy Burgess
- 1985 · Guilty Conscience as Arthur Jamison
- 1985 · A Woman of Substance as Jack Figg
- 1984 · The Bounty as Lieutenant William Bligh
- 1984 · Six Centuries of Verse as Himself - Reader
- 1983 · Natural World as
- 1983 · Harty as Self
- 1982 · Little Eyolf as Alfred Allmers
- 1981 · Peter and Paul as Paul of Tarsus
- 1980 · The Elephant Man as Frederick Treves
- 1979 · Red, White, and Zero as Brechtian
- 1979 · Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure as Captain Jones
- 1978 · The BBC Television Shakespeare as
- 1978 · Magic as Corky Withers / Fats (voice)
- 1977 · A Bridge Too Far as Lt. Col. John D. Frost
- 1976 · The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case as Bruno Richard Hauptmann
- 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 · Juggernaut as Supt. John McCleod
- 1974 · The Arcata Promise as Theo Gunge
- 1974 · The Childhood Friend as Alexander Tashkov
- 1973 · The Middle-of-the-Road Roadshow as Hi
- 1973 · A Doll's House as Torvald Helmer
- 1972 · The Edwardians as
- 1972 · The Edwardians as David Lloyd George
- 1972 · War & Peace as Pierre Bezukhov
- 1972 · The Man Outside as Albert Watts
- 1969 · Hamlet as Claudius
- Future · Bruno Penguin and the Staten Island Princess as Ben Windsor
- Future · Wife and Dog as
- 1972 · Poet Game as Hugh Saunders
- 1970 · Hearts and Flowers as Bob
- 1970 · Uncle Vanya as
- 1970 · Play for Today as Alexander Tashkov
- 1970 · Play for Today as Bob Goodliffe
- 1969 · Department S as Greg Halliday
- 1969 · Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt as Wat Tyler
- 1968 · The Lion in Winter as Richard
- 1968 · 60 Minutes as Self
- 1968 · The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- 1965 · BBC Play of the Month as Andrey
- 1965 · BBC Play of the Month as Edmund Kean
- 1965 · BBC Play of the Month as Astrov
- 1965 · BBC Play of the Month as Alfred Allmers
- 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
- 1970 · The Three Sisters as Andrey
- Future · The King of Covent Garden as Georg Friedrich Händel
- Future · Cus & Mike as Cus D’Amato
- Future · Untitled Anthony Hopkins Documentary as Self
- Future · The Housekeeper as Lord DeWithers