Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
December 31, 1937
Place of Birth:
Margam, Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales, UK
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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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Known For
Filmography
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Those About to Die | Emperor Vespasian |
| 2021 | Marvel Studios Legends | Odin (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2020 | Mythic Quest | Everlight Narrator (voice) |
| 2016 | Westworld | Dr. Robert Ford |
| 2015 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self |
| 2014 | Variety Studio: Actors on Actors | Self |
| 2003 | Celebrities Uncensored | Self |
| 2003 | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Self |
| 1998 | Parkinson | Self |
| 1997 | The View | Self |
| 1997 | Predators Killing for a Living | |
| 1996 | The Daily Show | Self |
| 1995 | Screen Actors Guild Awards | |
| 1994 | Inside the Actors Studio | Self |
| 1994 | Baseball | (voice) |
| 1993 | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Self - Guest |
| 1992 | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | Self |
| 1992 | To Be the Best | |
| 1991 | Charlie Rose | Self |
| 1989 | Great Expectations | Abel Magwitch |
| 1988 | LIVE with Kelly and Mark | Self - Guest |
| 1985 | Hollywood Wives | Neil Gray |
| 1985 | A Woman of Substance | Jack Figg |
| 1985 | Mussolini and I | Count Galeazzo Ciano |
| 1984 | Six Centuries of Verse | Self - Reader |
| 1983 | Harty | Self |
| 1983 | Natural World | |
| 1983 | A Married Man | John Strickland |
| 1981 | Peter and Paul | Paul of Tarsus |
| 1975 | People's Choice Awards | Self - Presenter |
| 1975 | People's Choice Awards | Self - Accepting Award |
| 1974 | QB VII | Adam Kelno |
| 1973 | Black and Blue | Hi |
| 1972 | War & Peace | Pierre Bezukhov |
| 1972 | The Man Outside | Albert Watts |
| 1972 | The Edwardians | |
| 1971 | The Ten Commandments | Steve |
| 1970 | Play for Today | Alexander Tashkov |
| 1970 | Play for Today | Bob Goodliffe |
| 1969 | Department S | Greg Halliday |
| 1968 | The Dick Cavett Show | Self - Guest |
| 1968 | 60 Minutes | Self |
| 1965 | BBC Play of the Month | Andrey |
| 1965 | BBC Play of the Month | Alfred Allmers |
| 1965 | BBC Play of the Month | Edmund Kean |
| 1965 | The Man in Room 17 | Dr. Harding |
| 1965 | BBC Play of the Month | Astrov |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Host |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Co-Host |
| 1953 | The Oscars | Self |
| 1952 | Today | Self |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Siegfried |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Quasimodo |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Jean Louis Chavel |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Nominee |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Presenter |