Anthony Hopkins
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1937-12-31 (87 years old)
Place of Birth
Margam, Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales, UK
Anthony Hopkins
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.
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Acting
Eyes in the Trees
as Dr. Addis
A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf
as Hrothgar
The King of Covent Garden
as Georg Friedrich Händel
Cus & Mike
as Cus D’Amato
Bruno Penguin and the Staten Island Princess
as Ben Windsor
(2026)
The Housekeeper
as Lord DeWithers
(2025)
Locked
as William
(2025)
Maserati: The Brothers
as Luca Antonelli
(2024)
Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver
as Jimmy (voice)
(2024)
Mary
as King Herod
(2024)
(2023)
Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire
as Jimmy (voice)
(2023)
One Life
as Nicholas Winton
(2023)
Sly
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(2023)
Freud's Last Session
as Sigmund Freud
(2022)
(2022)
The Son
as Anthony
(2022)
Armageddon Time
as Aaron Rabinowitz
(2022)
Where Are You
as Thomas
(2022)
Zero Contact
as Finley Hart
(2021)
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
as Self (archive footage)
(2021)
The Virtuoso
as The Mentor
(2021)
Parkinson at 50
as Self (archive footage)
(2020)
The Father
as Anthony
(2020)
Elyse
as Dr. Philip Lewis
(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)
Thor: Ragnarok
as Odin
(2017)
Transformers: The Last Knight
as Sir Edmund Burton
(2017)
Spielberg
as John Quincy Adams (archive footage) (uncredited)
(2016)
Collide
as Hagen Kahl
(2016)
Misconduct
as Arthur Denning
(2015)
Solace
as John Clancy
(2015)
The Dresser
as Sir
(2015)
Blackway
as Lester
(2015)
Kidnapping Mr. Heineken
as Freddy Heineken
(2014)
Noah
as Methuselah
(2014)
(2013)
Thor: The Dark World
as Odin
(2013)
RED 2
as Bailey
(2013)
Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips
as Self / Ieuan Davies
(2012)
Hitchcock
as Alfred Hitchcock
(2012)
360
as John
(2012)
(2011)
Thor
as Odin
(2011)
The Rite
as Father Lucas Trevant
(2011)
Thor: From Asgard to Earth
as Self
(2010)
The Wolfman
as Sir John Talbot
(2010)
(2010)
The Third Rule
as Fabian Hogarth
(2010)
Bare Knuckles
as Xavier Jonas (uncredited)
(2010)
(2010)
(2009)
The City of Your Final Destination
as Adam Gund
(2007)
Fracture
as Theodore Crawford
(2007)
Beowulf
as Hrothgar
(2007)
Shortcut to Happiness
as Daniel Webster
(2007)
Slipstream
as Felix Bonhoeffer
(2007)
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
as Self (archive footage)
(2007)
(2006)
Bobby
as John Casey
(2006)
All the King's Men
as Judge Irwin
(2005)
The World's Fastest Indian
as Burt Munro
(2005)
Proof
as Robert Llewellyn
(2005)
A Tribute To Ismail Merchant
as Self (archive footage)
(2005)
The True Story of Hannibal
as Self
(2005)
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
as Self
(2004)
Alexander
as Old Ptolemy
(2003)
The Human Stain
as Coleman Silk
(2003)
(2002)
Bad Company
as Oakes
(2002)
Red Dragon
as Hannibal Lecter
(2001)
Hearts in Atlantis
as Ted Brautigan
(2001)
(2001)
Unmasking Zorro
as Self
(2001)
(2001)
Hannibal
as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
(2001)
(2001)
(2001)
(2001)
(2000)
Mission: Impossible II
as Mission Commander Swanbeck (uncredited)
(2000)
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
as Narrator (voice)
(2000)
The Many Faces of Zorro
as Self
(1999)
Siegfried & Roy: The Magic Box
as Narrator
(1999)
Little Secret
as Narrator
(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)
Junket Whore
as Self
(1997)
The Edge
as Charles Morse
(1997)
The Lost Children of Berlin
as Narrator
(1997)
Amistad
as John Quincy Adams
(1996)
Surviving Picasso
as Pablo Picasso
(1996)
August
as Ieuan Davies
(1996)
(1995)
Nixon
as Richard Nixon
(1994)
Legends of the Fall
as Col. William Ludlow
(1994)
The Road to Wellville
as Dr. John Harvey Kellogg
(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)
The Trial
as The Priest
(1992)
Bram Stoker's Dracula
as Professor Abraham Van Helsing
(1992)
Earth and the American Dream
as Reader (voice)
(1992)
Chaplin
as George Hayden
(1992)
Howards End
as Henry J. Wilcox
(1992)
Freejack
as Ian McCandless
(1992)
(1992)
Spotswood
as Errol Wallace
(1991)
The Silence of the Lambs
as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
(1991)
One Man’s War
as Joel
(1991)
(1990)
Desperate Hours
as Tim Cornell
(1989)
Heartland
as Jack
(1989)
A Chorus of Disapproval
as Dafydd Ap Llewellyn
(1989)
Faroe Islands
as (voice)
(1988)
The Dawning
as Cassius / Angus Barrie
(1988)
The Tenth Man
as Jean Louis Cheval
(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)
The Good Father
as Bill Hooper
(1984)
The Bounty
as Lieutenant William Bligh
(1984)
Strangers and Brothers
as Roger Quaife
(1984)
Arch of Triumph
as Dr. Ravic
(1982)
Little Eyolf
as Alfred Allmers
(1982)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Quasimodo
(1981)
The Bunker
as Adolf Hitler
(1981)
Othello
as Othello
(1980)
The Elephant Man
as Frederick Treves
(1980)
A Change of Seasons
as Adam Evans
(1979)
Red, White, and Zero
as Brechtian
(1979)
Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure
as Captain Jones
(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
(1976)
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
as Bruno Richard Hauptmann
(1975)
All Creatures Great and Small
as Siegfried Farnon
(1974)
Juggernaut
as Supt. John McCleod
(1974)
The Girl from Petrovka
as Kostya
(1974)
The Arcata Promise
as Theo Gunge
(1974)
The Childhood Friend
as Alexander Tashkov
(1973)
A Doll's House
as Torvald Helmer
(1973)
(1972)
Young Winston
as David Llyod George
(1972)
Poet Game
as Hugh Saunders
(1971)
When Eight Bells Toll
as Philip Calvert
(1970)
The Three Sisters
as Andrey
(1970)
The Looking Glass War
as John Avery
(1970)
Hearts and Flowers
as Bob
(1970)
The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens
as Charles Dickens
(1970)
(1969)
Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt
as Wat Tyler
(1969)
Hamlet
as Claudius
(1968)
The Lion in Winter
as Richard
(1967)
The White Bus
as Brechtian
Crew
(2020)
Elyse
Producer, Music
(2017)
Mary and the Seven Dwarfs
Original Music Composer
(2015)
Blackway
Producer
(2007)
Slipstream
Director, Writer, Music
(2006)
Bobby
Executive Producer
(1999)
Return Journey
Director
(1996)
August
Director, Original Music Composer