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.
Filmography (66)
Locked
Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver
Mary
Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire
One Life
Freud's Last Session
The Son
Armageddon Time
The Virtuoso
The Father
The Two Popes
King Lear
Thor: Ragnarok
Transformers: The Last Knight
Collide
Solace
Blackway
Kidnapping Mr. Heineken
The Dresser
Noah
Thor: The Dark World
RED 2
Hitchcock
360
Thor
The Rite
The Wolfman
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
Beowulf
Fracture
All the King's Men
Bobby
The World's Fastest Indian
Proof
Alexander
The Human Stain
Red Dragon
Bad Company
Hannibal
Hearts in Atlantis
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Mission: Impossible II
Instinct
Titus
The Mask of Zorro
Meet Joe Black
Amistad
The Edge
Nixon
Legends of the Fall
The Road to Wellville
The Remains of the Day
Shadowlands
Chaplin
Freejack
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Howards End
The Silence of the Lambs
Desperate Hours
The Bounty
The Bunker
The Elephant Man
Magic
A Bridge Too Far
Juggernaut
