Anthony Hopkins
Acting
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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movieLegacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
2025
Self - (archive footage)
movieLocked
2025
William
movieMary
2024
King Herod
tvThose About to Die
2024
Emperor Vespasian
movieRebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver
2024
Jimmy (voice)
movieFreud's Last Session
2023
Sigmund Freud
movieOne Life
2023
Nicholas Winton
movieRebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire
2023
Jimmy (voice)
movieSly
2023
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
movieThe Son
2022
Anthony
movieArmageddon Time
2022
Aaron Rabinowitz
movieWhere Are You
2022
Thomas
tvWelcome to Wrexham
2022
Self (archive footage)
movieZero Contact
2022
Finley Hart
movieParkinson at 50
2021
Self (archive footage)
movieThe Virtuoso
2021
The Mentor
movieHannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
2021
Self (archive footage)
tvMarvel Studios Legends
2021
Odin (archive footage) (uncredited)
movieThe Father
2020
Anthony
movieElyse
2020
Dr. Philip Lewis
tvMythic Quest
2020
Everlight Narrator (voice)
movieThe Two Popes
2019
Joseph Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI
movieLove, Antosha
2019
Self (voice)
movieNothing Like a Dame
2018
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
movieSpielberg
2017
John Quincy Adams (archive footage) (uncredited)
movieTransformers: The Last Knight
2017
Sir Edmund Burton
tvWestworld
2016
Dr. Robert Ford
movieCollide
2016
Hagen Kahl
movieMisconduct
2016
Arthur Denning
movieBlackway
2015
Lester
tvThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Self - Guest
movieSolace
2015
John Clancy
movieKidnapping Mr. Heineken
2015
Freddy Heineken
movieNoah
2014
Methuselah
movieHello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips
2013
Self / Ieuan Davies
movieRED 2
2013
Bailey
movieHitchcock
2012
Alfred Hitchcock
movie360
2012
John
movieThor
2011
Odin
movieThe Rite
2011
Father Lucas Trevant
movieThe Third Rule
2010
Fabian Hogarth
movieThe Wolfman
2010
Sir John Talbot
movieBare Knuckles
2010
Xavier Jonas (uncredited)
movieBeowulf
2007
Hrothgar (Voice)
movieThe Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
2007
Self (archive footage)
movieShortcut to Happiness
2007
Daniel Webster
movieFracture
2007
Ted Crawford
movieSlipstream
2007
Felix Bonhoeffer
movieAll the King's Men
2006
Judge Irwin
movieBobby
2006
John Casey
movieA Tribute To Ismail Merchant
2005
Self (archive footage)
movieThe World's Fastest Indian
2005
Burt Munro
movieProof
2005
Robert Llewellyn
movieNos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005
Self (archive footage)
movieAlexander
2004
Old Ptolemy
movieThe Human Stain
2003
Coleman Silk
movieRed Dragon
2002
Hannibal Lecter
movieBad Company
2002
Oakes
movieHearts in Atlantis
2001
Ted Brautigan
movieHannibal
2001
Dr. Hannibal Lecter
movieHow the Grinch Stole Christmas
2000
Narrator (voice)
movieMission: Impossible II
2000
Mission Commander Swanbeck (uncredited)
movieTitus
1999
Titus Andronicus
movieInstinct
1999
Dr. Ethan Powell
movieMeet Joe Black
1998
William Parrish
movieThe Mask of Zorro
1998
Don Diego de la Vega / Zorro
tvParkinson
1998
Self
movieAmistad
1997
John Quincy Adams
movieThe Edge
1997
Charles Morse
tvThe View
1997
Self
movieSurviving Picasso
1996
Pablo Picasso
movieAugust
1996
Ieuan Davies
movieNixon
1995
Richard Nixon
movieLegends of the Fall
1994
Col. William Ludlow
movieThe Road to Wellville
1994
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg
tvBaseball
1994
(voice)
movieShadowlands
1993
C. S. 'Jack' Lewis
movieThe Remains of the Day
1993
James Stevens
tvLate Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
Self - Guest
movieThe Trial
1993
The Priest
movieChaplin
1992
George Hayden
movieBram Stoker's Dracula
1992
Professor Abraham Van Helsing
movieEarth and the American Dream
1992
Reader (voice)
tvTo Be the Best
1992
Jack Figg
movieHowards End
1992
Henry J. Wilcox
movieSpotswood
1992
Errol Wallace
movieFreejack
1992
Ian McCandless
movieThe Silence of the Lambs
1991
Dr. Hannibal Lecter
movieDesperate Hours
1990
Tim Cornell
movieA Chorus of Disapproval
1989
Dafydd Ap Llewellyn
tvGreat Expectations
1989
Abel Magwitch
movieFaroe Islands
1989
(voice)
movieThe Tenth Man
1988
Jean Louis Cheval
tvLIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Self - Guest
movieAcross the Lake
1988
Donald Campbell
movieThe Dawning
1988
Cassius / Angus Barrie
movie84 Charing Cross Road
1987
Frank P. Doel
movieBlunt
1987
Guy Burgess
Sunday Premiere
1986
Donald Campbell
movieThe Good Father
1985
Bill Hooper
tvMussolini and I
1985
Count Galeazzo Ciano
movieGuilty Conscience
1985
Arthur Jamison
tvHollywood Wives
1985
Neil Gray
tvScreen Two
1985
The Priest / Guy Burgess
tvA Woman of Substance
1985
Jack Figg
movieArch of Triumph
1984
Dr. Ravic
movieThe Bounty
1984
Lieutenant William Bligh
tvSix Centuries of Verse
1984
Self - Reader
Harty
1983
Self
tvA Married Man
1983
John Strickland
movieLittle Eyolf
1982
Alfred Allmers
movieThe Hunchback of Notre Dame
1982
Quasimodo
movieOthello
1981
Othello
movieThe Bunker
1981
Adolf Hitler
tvPeter and Paul
1981
Paul of Tarsus
movieA Change of Seasons
1980
Adam Evans
movieThe Elephant Man
1980
Frederick Treves
movieMayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure
1979
Captain Jones
movieMagic
1978
Corky Withers / Fats (voice)
movieInternational Velvet
1978
Captain Johnson
movieA Bridge Too Far
1977
Lt. Col. John D. Frost
movieAudrey Rose
1977
Elliot Hoover
movieVictory at Entebbe
1976
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
movieThe Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
1976
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
movieDark Victory
1976
Dr. Michael Grant
movieAll Creatures Great and Small
1975
Siegfried Farnon
tvPeople's Choice Awards
1975
Self - Presenter / Self - Accepting Award
movieJuggernaut
1974
Supt. John McCleod
movieThe Arcata Promise
1974
Theo Gunge
movieThe Childhood Friend
1974
Alexander Tashkov
tvQB VII
1974
Adam Kelno
movieA Doll's House
1973
Torvald Helmer
tvThe Edwardians
1972
David Lloyd George
tvWar & Peace
1972
Pierre Bezukhov
movieYoung Winston
1972
David Llyod George
The Man Outside
1972
Albert Watts
moviePoet Game
1972
Hugh Saunders
movieWhen Eight Bells Toll
1971
Philip Calvert
Biography
1970
Danton
tvPlay for Today
1970
Alexander Tashkov / Bob Goodliffe
movieThe Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens
1970
Charles Dickens
movieThe Looking Glass War
1970
John Avery
movieHamlet
1969
Claudius
tvDepartment S
1969
Greg Halliday
tvThe Company of Five
1968
Richard Mason
tv60 Minutes
1968
Self
movieThe Lion in Winter
1968
Richard
tvThe Dick Cavett Show
1968
Self - Guest
movieRed, White, and Zero
1968
Brechtian
movieThe White Bus
1967
Brechtian
tvBBC Play of the Month
1965
Andrey / Edmund Kean / Alfred Allmers / Astrov
tvThe Man in Room 17
1965
Dr. Harding
tvTony Awards
1956
Self - Host / Self - Co-Host
tvThe Oscars
1953
Self
tvToday
1952
Self
tvHallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Siegfried / Quasimodo / Jean Louis Chavel
tvGolden Globe Awards
1944
Self - Nominee / Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient / Self
The King of Covent Garden
Georg Friedrich Händel
Bruno Penguin and the Staten Island Princess
Ben Windsor
Cus & Mike
Cus D’Amato
movieMaserati: The Brothers
Luca Antonelli
The Housekeeper
Lord Grenville-Whithers
movieThe Species
Charles Darwin
Sound4
movieElyse
2020
Music
movieMary and the Seven Dwarfs
2017
Original Music Composer
movieSlipstream
2007
Original Music Composer
movieAugust
1996
Original Music Composer
Directing3
Production3
Writing1
movieSlipstream
2007
Writer