Anthony Hopkins
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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
Credits
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
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Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
as Odin
Thor: The Dark World (2013)
as Odin
Thor (2011)
as Odin
Meet Joe Black (1998)
as William Parrish
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
as Professor Abraham Van Helsing
Mission: Impossible II (2000)
as Mission Commander Swanbeck (uncredited)
Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
as Sir Edmund Burton
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
as Narrator (voice)
Legends of the Fall (1994)
as Col. William Ludlow
The Mask of Zorro (1998)
as Don Diego de la Vega / Zorro
RED 2 (2013)
as Bailey
Noah (2014)
as Methuselah
Alexander (2004)
as Old Ptolemy
Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire (2023)
as Jimmy (voice)
The Elephant Man (1980)
as Frederick Treves
The Father (2020)
as Anthony
Fracture (2007)
as Ted Crawford
Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver (2024)
as Jimmy (voice)
Beowulf (2007)
as Hrothgar (Voice)
Solace (2015)
as John Clancy
Locked (2025)
as William
The Edge (1997)
as Charles Morse
The World's Fastest Indian (2005)
as Burt Munro
The Wolfman (2010)
as Sir John Talbot
One Life (2023)
as Nicholas Winton
The Remains of the Day (1993)
as James Stevens
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
as Lt. Col. John D. Frost
The Rite (2011)
as Father Lucas Trevant
The Son (2022)
as Anthony
Misconduct (2016)
as Arthur Denning
Freud's Last Session (2023)
as Sigmund Freud
All the King's Men (2006)
as Judge Irwin
The Virtuoso (2021)
as The Mentor
The Bounty (1984)
as Lieutenant William Bligh
Kidnapping Mr. Heineken (2015)
as Freddy Heineken
Chaplin (1992)
as George Hayden
Bad Company (2002)
as Oakes
Instinct (1999)
as Dr. Ethan Powell
The Two Popes (2019)
as Joseph Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI
Collide (2016)
as Hagen Kahl
Hitchcock (2012)
as Alfred Hitchcock
Howards End (1992)
as Henry J. Wilcox
Nixon (1995)
as Richard Nixon
The Human Stain (2003)
as Coleman Silk
Armageddon Time (2022)
as Aaron Rabinowitz
Sly (2023)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Titus (1999)
as Titus Andronicus
Shortcut to Happiness (2007)
as Daniel Webster
Hearts in Atlantis (2001)
as Ted Brautigan
Mary (2024)
as King Herod
The Lion in Winter (1968)
as Richard
Freejack (1992)
as Ian McCandless
84 Charing Cross Road (1987)
as Frank P. Doel
Proof (2005)
as Robert Llewellyn
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)
as Alfie
Wife & Dog (2027)
Actor
King Lear (2018)
as Lear
The Road to Wellville (1994)
as Dr. John Harvey Kellogg
Blackway (2015)
as Lester
Desperate Hours (1990)
as Tim Cornell
Maserati: The Brothers (2026)
as Luca Antonelli
The Dresser (2015)
as Sir
When Eight Bells Toll (1971)
as Philip Calvert
Juggernaut (1974)
as Supt. John McCleod
Love, Antosha (2019)
as Self (voice)
Spielberg (2017)
as John Quincy Adams (archive footage) (uncredited)
Magic (1978)
as Corky Withers / Fats (voice)
Junket Whore (1998)
as Self
Slipstream (2007)
as Felix Bonhoeffer
The Bunker (1981)
as Adolf Hitler
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies (2025)
as Self - (archive footage)
Zero Contact (2022)
as Finley Hart
Shadowlands (1993)
as C. S. 'Jack' Lewis
360 (2012)
as John
The Tenth Man (1988)
as Jean Louis Cheval
Bobby (2006)
as John Casey
Hannibal (2001)
as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
Nothing Like a Dame (2018)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Red Dragon (2002)
as Hannibal Lecter
The Species (—)
as Charles Darwin
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1982)
as Quasimodo
The City of Your Final Destination (2009)
as Adam Gund
The Trial (1993)
as The Priest
Audrey Rose (1977)
as Elliot Hoover
Victory at Entebbe (1976)
as Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
The Innocent (1993)
as Glass
Surviving Picasso (1996)
as Pablo Picasso
Young Winston (1972)
as David Llyod George
The Girl from Petrovka (1974)
as Kostya
The Looking Glass War (1970)
as John Avery
Marlon Brando: The Wild One (1994)
as Self
Creating a Universe - The Making of Rebel Moon (2024)
as Self
Othello (1981)
as Othello
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels (1996)
as Self
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal (2001)
as Self
Earth and the American Dream (1992)
as Reader (voice)
International Velvet (1978)
as Captain Johnson
Spotswood (1992)
as Errol Wallace
Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man, The Myth, The Movies (1992)
as Self
The Housekeeper (—)
as Lord Grenville-Whithers
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon' (2003)
as Self
Bare Knuckles (2010)
as Xavier Jonas (uncredited)
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' (2007)
as Self (archive footage)
A Chorus of Disapproval (1989)
as Dafydd Ap Llewellyn
Heartland (1989)
as Jack
Arch of Triumph (1984)
as Dr. Ravic
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood (2005)
as Self (archive footage)
Where Are You (2022)
as Thomas
August (1996)
as Ieuan Davies
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba (2022)
as Self
Dark Victory (1976)
as Dr. Michael Grant
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul (2001)
as Self
Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs' (2001)
as Self
The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs' (1991)
as Self
Dreaming Slipstream Dream (2008)
as Self
A Doll's House (1973)
as Torvald Helmer
Amistad (1997)
as John Quincy Adams
A Change of Seasons (1980)
as Adam Evans
Unmasking Zorro (2001)
as Self
Elyse (2020)
as Dr. Philip Lewis
All Creatures Great and Small (1975)
as Siegfried Farnon
The Remains of the Day: The Filmmaker's Journey (2001)
as Self
Across the Lake (1988)
as Donald Campbell
Guilty Conscience (1985)
as Arthur Jamison
Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt (1969)
as Wat Tyler
The Good Father (1985)
as Bill Hooper
One Man’s War (1991)
as Joel
Blind Loyalty, Hollow Honor: England's Fatal Flaw (2001)
as Self
Parkinson at 50 (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
Red, White, and Zero (1968)
as Brechtian
Hannibal Lecter, l'icône du mal par excellence (2010)
as Self
Untitled Anthony Hopkins Documentary (—)
as Self
The Dawning (1988)
as Cassius / Angus Barrie
The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens (1970)
as Charles Dickens
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film (2014)
as Self
The Third Rule (2010)
as Fabian Hogarth
Love & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day' (2001)
as Self
Bruno Penguin and the Staten Island Princess (—)
as Ben Windsor
Thor: From Asgard to Earth (2011)
as Self
Poet Game (1972)
as Hugh Saunders
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (1976)
as Bruno Richard Hauptmann
A Tribute To Ismail Merchant (2005)
as Self (archive footage)
Little Eyolf (1982)
as Alfred Allmers
Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure (1979)
as Captain Jones
The White Bus (1967)
as Brechtian
Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs (2010)
as Self
Hamlet (1969)
as Claudius
Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips (2013)
as Self / Ieuan Davies
The Arcata Promise (1974)
as Theo Gunge
Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends (2007)
as Self
Blunt (1987)
as Guy Burgess
The True Story of Hannibal (2005)
as Self
Eyes in the Trees (—)
as Dr. Addis
The Three Sisters (1970)
as Andrey
A Visit to Grandpa’s (—)
as Grandpa
Getting in Touch with your Inner Thor (2018)
as Self
The Lost Children of Berlin (1997)
as Narrator
A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf (—)
as Hrothgar
Hearts and Flowers (1970)
as Bob
Uncle Vanya (1970)
as Astrov
Siegfried & Roy: The Magic Box (1999)
as Narrator
The Middle-of-the-Road Roadshow for All the Family (1973)
as Hi
The Many Faces of Zorro (2000)
as Self
Little Secret (1999)
as Narrator
The Childhood Friend (1974)
as Alexander Tashkov
The King of Covent Garden (—)
as Georg Friedrich Händel
Faroe Islands (1989)
as (voice)
Cus & Mike (—)
as Cus D’Amato