Anthony Hopkins
Acting
Born: December 31, 1937 (age 88) · Margam, Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales, UK
Highest Rated
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
Thor
2011
Thor: Ragnarok
2017
Thor: The Dark World
2013
The Silence of the Lambs
1991
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
2000
Mission: Impossible II
2000
Transformers: The Last Knight
2017
Noah
2014
Westworld
2016
Meet Joe Black
1998
Bram Stoker's Dracula
1992
Hannibal
2001
Photos (16)
Movies (123)
Thor: Ragnarok
Odin
Thor
Odin
Thor: The Dark World
Odin
Transformers: The Last Knight
Sir Edmund Burton
Meet Joe Black
William Parrish
Mission: Impossible II
Mission Commander Swanbeck (uncredited)
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Narrator (voice)
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Professor Abraham Van Helsing
The Mask of Zorro
Don Diego de la Vega / Zorro
Legends of the Fall
Col. William Ludlow
RED 2
Bailey
Alexander
Old Ptolemy
Noah
Methuselah
Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire
Jimmy (voice)
Locked
William
Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver
Jimmy (voice)
The Father
Anthony
The Elephant Man
Frederick Treves
Beowulf
Hrothgar (Voice)
Solace
John Clancy
Fracture
Ted Crawford
One Life
Nicholas Winton
The Edge
Charles Morse
The Wolfman
Sir John Talbot
The Silence of the Lambs
Dr. Hannibal Lecter
The Remains of the Day
James Stevens
The World's Fastest Indian
Burt Munro
The Rite
Father Lucas Trevant
The Son
Anthony
Chaplin
George Hayden
A Bridge Too Far
Lt. Col. John D. Frost
Bad Company
Oakes
The Virtuoso
The Mentor
Instinct
Dr. Ethan Powell
The Two Popes
Joseph Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI
Misconduct
Arthur Denning
The Bounty
Lieutenant William Bligh
Collide
Hagen Kahl
Kidnapping Mr. Heineken
Freddy Heineken
All the King's Men
Judge Irwin
Freud's Last Session
Sigmund Freud
Howards End
Henry J. Wilcox
King Lear
Lear
Titus
Titus Andronicus
The Human Stain
Coleman Silk
Nixon
Richard Nixon
Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock
Proof
Robert Llewellyn
The Lion in Winter
Richard
Freejack
Ian McCandless
Mary
King Herod
Hearts in Atlantis
Ted Brautigan
84 Charing Cross Road
Frank P. Doel
Shortcut to Happiness
Daniel Webster
Blackway
Lester
Armageddon Time
Aaron Rabinowitz
The Road to Wellville
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
Alfie
Bare Knuckles
Xavier Jonas (uncredited)
Juggernaut
Supt. John McCleod
Desperate Hours
Tim Cornell
Magic
Corky Withers / Fats (voice)
Spielberg
John Quincy Adams (archive footage) (uncredited)
Slipstream
Felix Bonhoeffer
The Dresser
Sir
When Eight Bells Toll
Philip Calvert
Bobby
John Casey
Hannibal
Dr. Hannibal Lecter
The Tenth Man
Jean Louis Cheval
Zero Contact
Finley Hart
360
John
Shadowlands
C. S. 'Jack' Lewis
Red Dragon
Hannibal Lecter
The Bunker
Adolf Hitler
The Trial
The Priest
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Quasimodo
Victory at Entebbe
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
Young Winston
David Llyod George
The City of Your Final Destination
Adam Gund
Audrey Rose
Elliot Hoover
The Innocent
Glass
Heartland
Jack
Surviving Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Spotswood
Errol Wallace
Othello
Othello
The Girl from Petrovka
Kostya
August
Ieuan Davies
A Chorus of Disapproval
Dafydd Ap Llewellyn
Earth and the American Dream
Reader (voice)
Where Are You
Thomas
A Change of Seasons
Adam Evans
Arch of Triumph
Dr. Ravic
International Velvet
Captain Johnson
One Man’s War
Joel
Red, White, and Zero
Brechtian
The Looking Glass War
John Avery
Amistad
John Quincy Adams
The Dawning
Cassius / Angus Barrie
Guilty Conscience
Arthur Jamison
Across the Lake
Donald Campbell
All Creatures Great and Small
Siegfried Farnon
Hamlet
Claudius
A Doll's House
Torvald Helmer
The Good Father
Bill Hooper
Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt
Wat Tyler
Elyse
Dr. Philip Lewis
Dark Victory
Dr. Michael Grant
Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure
Captain Jones
The White Bus
Brechtian
The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens
Charles Dickens
Poet Game
Hugh Saunders
Hearts and Flowers
Bob
Little Eyolf
Alfred Allmers
The Third Rule
Fabian Hogarth
The Middle-of-the-Road Roadshow for All the Family
Hi
The Childhood Friend
Alexander Tashkov
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
The Arcata Promise
Theo Gunge
Blunt
Guy Burgess
Siegfried & Roy: The Magic Box
Narrator
The Lost Children of Berlin
Narrator
The Three Sisters
Andrey
Faroe Islands
(voice)
TV Shows (33)
Play for Today
Alexander Tashkov · 1 eps
Play for Today
Bob Goodliffe · 1 eps
Westworld
Dr. Robert Ford · 20 eps
BBC Play of the Month
Andrey · 1 eps
BBC Play of the Month
Edmund Kean · 1 eps
BBC Play of the Month
Alfred Allmers · 1 eps
BBC Play of the Month
Astrov · 1 eps
Natural World
2 eps
Omnibus
1 eps
Screen Two
The Priest · 1 eps
Screen Two
Guy Burgess · 1 eps
Marvel Studios Legends
Odin (archive footage) (uncredited) · 3 eps
Mythic Quest
Everlight Narrator (voice) · 1 eps
Those About to Die
Emperor Vespasian · 10 eps
The Play on One
Jack · 1 eps
Baseball
(voice) · 3 eps
A Woman of Substance
Jack Figg
Department S
Greg Halliday · 1 eps
The Man in Room 17
Dr. Harding · 1 eps
Mussolini and I
Count Galeazzo Ciano · 4 eps
Hollywood Wives
Neil Gray · 3 eps
War & Peace
Pierre Bezukhov · 17 eps
Peter and Paul
Paul of Tarsus · 2 eps
The Edwardians
David Lloyd George · 1 eps
A Married Man
John Strickland · 4 eps
Great Expectations
Abel Magwitch · 4 eps
The Company of Five
Richard Mason · 1 eps
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Siegfried · 1 eps
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Quasimodo · 1 eps
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Jean Louis Chavel · 1 eps
Predators Killing for a Living
13 eps
QB VII
Adam Kelno · 2 eps
To Be the Best
Jack Figg · 2 eps
Self / Appearances (57)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest · 2 eps
The Daily Show
Self · 2 eps
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee · 2 eps
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient · 1 eps
Golden Globe Awards
Self · 1 eps
The View
Self · 1 eps
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self - Guest · 4 eps
60 Minutes
Self · 1 eps
Tony Awards
Self - Host · 1 eps
Tony Awards
Self - Co-Host · 1 eps
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest · 3 eps
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self · 2 eps
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Self · 2 eps
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self · 1 eps
The Oscars
Self · 8 eps
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Today
Self · 1 eps
Parkinson
Self · 1 eps
People's Choice Awards
Self - Presenter · 1 eps
People's Choice Awards
Self - Accepting Award · 1 eps
Welcome to Wrexham
Self (archive footage) · 1 eps
The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA
Self · 1 eps
Charlie Rose
Self · 1 eps
Sly
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Six Centuries of Verse
Self - Reader · 1 eps
Love, Antosha
Self (voice)
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
Self - (archive footage)
Junket Whore
Self
Nothing Like a Dame
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
Self
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
Self
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
Self (archive footage)
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
Self
Creating a Universe - The Making of Rebel Moon
Self
Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man, The Myth, The Movies
Self
Inside the Actors Studio
Self · 2 eps
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
Unmasking Zorro
Self
Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Self
Dreaming Slipstream Dream
Self
Love & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day'
Self
A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'
Self
Thor: From Asgard to Earth
Self
Parkinson at 50
Self (archive footage)
Blind Loyalty, Hollow Honor: England's Fatal Flaw
Self
The Remains of the Day: The Filmmaker's Journey
Self
A Tribute To Ismail Merchant
Self (archive footage)
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
Self
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Self
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
Self (archive footage)
Hannibal Lecter, l'icône du mal par excellence
Self
The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Self
Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs
Self
Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends
Self
The Many Faces of Zorro
Self
Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips
Self / Ieuan Davies
Celebrities Uncensored
Self · 1 eps
