Anthony Hopkins
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- December 31, 1937 (age 88)
- Birthplace
- 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
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Filmography
Untitled Anthony Hopkins Documentary
Movie · as Self
Eyes in the Trees
Movie · as Dr. Addis
The King of Covent Garden
Movie · as Georg Friedrich Händel
Bruno Penguin and the Staten Island Princess
Movie · as Ben Windsor
Cus & Mike
Movie · as Cus D’Amato
The Housekeeper
Movie · as Lord Grenville-Whithers
A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf
Movie · as Hrothgar
A Visit to Grandpa’s
Movie · as Grandpa
The Species
Movie · as Charles Darwin
2048
Movie · as Bryant
Twenty-Seven
Movie
Wife & Dog
Movie
Maserati: The Brothers
Movie · as Luca Antonelli
Locked
Movie · as William
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver
Movie · as Jimmy (voice)
Mary
Movie · as King Herod
Creating a Universe - The Making of Rebel Moon
Movie · as Self
Those About to Die
TV · as Emperor Vespasian · 10 eps
Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire
Movie · as Jimmy (voice)
Freud's Last Session
Movie · as Sigmund Freud
Sly
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
One Life
Movie · as Nicholas Winton
Zero Contact
Movie · as Finley Hart
The Son
Movie · as Anthony
Armageddon Time
Movie · as Aaron Rabinowitz
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Movie · as Self
Where Are You
Movie · as Thomas
Welcome to Wrexham
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Parkinson at 50
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Virtuoso
Movie · as The Mentor
Marvel Studios Legends
TV · as Odin (archive footage) (uncredited) · 3 eps
The Father
Movie · as Anthony
Elyse
Movie · as Dr. Philip Lewis
Mythic Quest
TV · as Everlight Narrator (voice) · 1 ep
The Two Popes
Movie · as Joseph Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI
Love, Antosha
Movie · as Self (voice)
Nothing Like a Dame
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
King Lear
Movie · as Lear
Getting in Touch with your Inner Thor
Movie · as Self
Spielberg
Movie · as John Quincy Adams (archive footage) (uncredited)
Thor: Ragnarok
Movie · as Odin
Transformers: The Last Knight
Movie · as Sir Edmund Burton
Collide
Movie · as Hagen Kahl
Misconduct
Movie · as Arthur Denning
Westworld
TV · as Dr. Robert Ford · 20 eps
Kidnapping Mr. Heineken
Movie · as Freddy Heineken
Solace
Movie · as John Clancy
Blackway
Movie · as Lester
The Dresser
Movie · as Sir
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV · as Self - Guest · 2 eps
Noah
Movie · as Methuselah
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
Movie · as Self
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Thor: The Dark World
Movie · as Odin
RED 2
Movie · as Bailey
Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips
Movie · as Self / Ieuan Davies
360
Movie · as John
Hitchcock
Movie · as Alfred Hitchcock
Thor
Movie · as Odin
The Rite
Movie · as Father Lucas Trevant
Thor: From Asgard to Earth
Movie · as Self
The Wolfman
Movie · as Sir John Talbot
Bare Knuckles
Movie · as Xavier Jonas (uncredited)
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
Movie · as Alfie
The Third Rule
Movie · as Fabian Hogarth
Hannibal Lecter, l'icône du mal par excellence
Movie · as Self
Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs
Movie · as Self
The City of Your Final Destination
Movie · as Adam Gund
Dreaming Slipstream Dream
Movie · as Self
Beowulf
Movie · as Hrothgar (Voice)
Fracture
Movie · as Ted Crawford
Shortcut to Happiness
Movie · as Daniel Webster
Slipstream
Movie · as Felix Bonhoeffer
Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends
Movie · as Self
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
All the King's Men
Movie · as Judge Irwin
Bobby
Movie · as John Casey
Proof
Movie · as Robert Llewellyn
The World's Fastest Indian
Movie · as Burt Munro
A Tribute To Ismail Merchant
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The True Story of Hannibal
Movie · as Self
Alexander
Movie · as Old Ptolemy
Parkinson
TV · as Self - Guest (archive footage) · 1 ep
The Human Stain
Movie · as Coleman Silk
A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'
Movie · as Self
Celebrities Uncensored
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Bad Company
Movie · as Oakes
Red Dragon
Movie · as Hannibal Lecter
Hearts in Atlantis
Movie · as Ted Brautigan
Hannibal
Movie · as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
Movie · as Self
Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Movie · as Self
Love & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day'
Movie · as Self
Blind Loyalty, Hollow Honor: England's Fatal Flaw
Movie · as Self
The Remains of the Day: The Filmmaker's Journey
Movie · as Self
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
Movie · as Self
Unmasking Zorro
Movie · as Self
Mission: Impossible II
Movie · as Mission Commander Swanbeck (uncredited)
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
The Many Faces of Zorro
Movie · as Self
Instinct
Movie · as Dr. Ethan Powell
Titus
Movie · as Titus Andronicus
Little Secret
Movie · as Narrator
Siegfried & Roy: The Magic Box
Movie · as Narrator
Meet Joe Black
Movie · as William Parrish
The Mask of Zorro
Movie · as Don Diego de la Vega / Zorro
Junket Whore
Movie · as Self
Parkinson
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Amistad
Movie · as John Quincy Adams
The Edge
Movie · as Charles Morse
The Lost Children of Berlin
Movie · as Narrator
The View
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Predators Killing for a Living
TV · 13 eps
Surviving Picasso
Movie · as Pablo Picasso
August
Movie · as Ieuan Davies
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
Movie · as Self
The Daily Show
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Nixon
Movie · as Richard Nixon
The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Road to Wellville
Movie · as Dr. John Harvey Kellogg
Legends of the Fall
Movie · as Col. William Ludlow
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
Movie · as Self
Inside the Actors Studio
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Baseball
TV · as (voice) · 3 eps
The Remains of the Day
Movie · as James Stevens
Shadowlands
Movie · as C. S. 'Jack' Lewis
The Trial
Movie · as The Priest
The Innocent
Movie · as Glass
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV · as Self - Guest · 3 eps
Chaplin
Movie · as George Hayden
Howards End
Movie · as Henry J. Wilcox
Freejack
Movie · as Ian McCandless
Spotswood
Movie · as Errol Wallace
Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man, The Myth, The Movies
Movie · as Self
Earth and the American Dream
Movie · as Reader (voice)
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Movie · as Professor Abraham Van Helsing
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
TV · as Self · 2 eps
To Be the Best
TV · as Jack Figg · 2 eps
The Silence of the Lambs
Movie · as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
One Man’s War
Movie · as Joel
The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Movie · as Self
Charlie Rose
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Desperate Hours
Movie · as Tim Cornell
A Chorus of Disapproval
Movie · as Dafydd Ap Llewellyn
Faroe Islands
Movie · as (voice)
Heartland
Movie · as Jack
Great Expectations
TV · as Abel Magwitch · 4 eps
Across the Lake
Movie · as Donald Campbell
The Tenth Man
Movie · as Jean Louis Cheval
The Dawning
Movie · as Cassius / Angus Barrie
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
TV · as Self - Guest · 4 eps
The Play on One
TV · as Jack · 1 ep
84 Charing Cross Road
Movie · as Frank P. Doel
Blunt
Movie · as Guy Burgess
Sunday Premiere
TV · as Donald Campbell · 1 ep
The Good Father
Movie · as Bill Hooper
Guilty Conscience
Movie · as Arthur Jamison
Hollywood Wives
TV · as Neil Gray · 3 eps
A Woman of Substance
TV · as Jack Figg
Mussolini and I
TV · as Count Galeazzo Ciano · 4 eps
Screen Two
TV · as The Priest, Guy Burgess · 1 ep
The Bounty
Movie · as Lieutenant William Bligh
Arch of Triumph
Movie · as Dr. Ravic
Six Centuries of Verse
TV · as Self - Reader · 1 ep
Harty
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Natural World
TV · 2 eps
A Married Man
TV · as John Strickland · 4 eps
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Movie · as Quasimodo
Little Eyolf
Movie · as Alfred Allmers
The Bunker
Movie · as Adolf Hitler
Othello
Movie · as Othello
Peter and Paul
TV · as Paul of Tarsus · 2 eps
The Elephant Man
Movie · as Frederick Treves
A Change of Seasons
Movie · as Adam Evans
Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure
Movie · as Captain Jones
Magic
Movie · as Corky Withers / Fats (voice)
International Velvet
Movie · as Captain Johnson
The South Bank Show
TV · 2 eps
A Bridge Too Far
Movie · as Lt. Col. John D. Frost
Audrey Rose
Movie · as Elliot Hoover
Childhood
TV · as Dando · 1 ep
Victory at Entebbe
Movie · as Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
Movie · as Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Dark Victory
Movie · as Dr. Michael Grant
All Creatures Great and Small
Movie · as Siegfried Farnon
People's Choice Awards
TV · as Self - Presenter, Self - Accepting Award · 1 ep
Juggernaut
Movie · as Supt. John McCleod
The Girl from Petrovka
Movie · as Kostya
The Arcata Promise
Movie · as Theo Gunge
The Childhood Friend
Movie · as Alexander Tashkov
QB VII
TV · as Adam Kelno · 2 eps
A Doll's House
Movie · as Torvald Helmer
The Middle-of-the-Road Roadshow for All the Family
Movie · as Hi
Black and Blue
TV · as Hi · 1 ep
Young Winston
Movie · as David Llyod George
Poet Game
Movie · as Hugh Saunders
War & Peace
TV · as Pierre Bezukhov · 17 eps
The Edwardians
TV · as David Lloyd George · 1 ep
The Man Outside
TV · as Albert Watts · 1 ep
When Eight Bells Toll
Movie · as Philip Calvert
The Ten Commandments
TV · as Steve · 1 ep
Film '72
TV · as Self · 7 eps
The Looking Glass War
Movie · as John Avery
The Three Sisters
Movie · as Andrey
Uncle Vanya
Movie · as Astrov
Hearts and Flowers
Movie · as Bob
The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens
Movie · as Charles Dickens
Play for Today
TV · as Alexander Tashkov, Bob Goodliffe · 1 ep
Biography
TV · as Danton · 1 ep
Hamlet
Movie · as Claudius
Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt
Movie · as Wat Tyler
Department S
TV · as Greg Halliday · 1 ep
The Lion in Winter
Movie · as Richard
Red, White, and Zero
Movie · as Brechtian
The Dick Cavett Show
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
60 Minutes
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Company of Five
TV · as Richard Mason · 1 ep
The White Bus
Movie · as Brechtian
Omnibus
TV · 1 ep
BBC Play of the Month
TV · as Andrey, Edmund Kean, Alfred Allmers, Astrov · 1 ep
The Man in Room 17
TV · as Dr. Harding · 1 ep
A Matter of Degree
TV · as Stephen · 6 eps
Tony Awards
TV · as Self - Host, Self - Co-Host · 1 ep
The Oscars
TV · as Self · 8 eps
Today
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV · as Siegfried, Quasimodo, Jean Louis Chavel · 1 ep
Golden Globe Awards
TV · as Self - Nominee, Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient · 2 eps