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 (2011)
as Odin
Thor: The Dark World (2013)
as Odin
Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
as Sir Edmund Burton
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
as Narrator (voice)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
as Professor Abraham Van Helsing
Mission: Impossible II (2000)
as Mission Commander Swanbeck (uncredited)
Locked (2025)
as William
Meet Joe Black (1998)
as William Parrish
Alexander (2004)
as Old Ptolemy
Noah (2014)
as Methuselah
The Mask of Zorro (1998)
as Don Diego de la Vega / Zorro
Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire (2023)
as Jimmy (voice)
Legends of the Fall (1994)
as Col. William Ludlow
RED 2 (2013)
as Bailey
Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver (2024)
as Jimmy (voice)
Instinct (1999)
as Dr. Ethan Powell
The Father (2020)
as Anthony
The Wolfman (2010)
as Sir John Talbot
Beowulf (2007)
as Hrothgar (Voice)
Fracture (2007)
as Ted Crawford
Chaplin (1992)
as George Hayden
One Life (2023)
as Nicholas Winton
The Elephant Man (1980)
as Frederick Treves
Junket Whore (1998)
as Self
The World's Fastest Indian (2005)
as Burt Munro
Titus (1999)
as Titus Andronicus
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
as Lt. Col. John D. Frost
King Lear (2018)
as Lear
The Edge (1997)
as Charles Morse
Love, Antosha (2019)
as Self (voice)
The Rite (2011)
as Father Lucas Trevant
Solace (2015)
as John Clancy
All the King's Men (2006)
as Judge Irwin
Freejack (1992)
as Ian McCandless
Collide (2016)
as Hagen Kahl
Juggernaut (1974)
as Supt. John McCleod
The Remains of the Day (1993)
as James Stevens
The Son (2022)
as Anthony
Misconduct (2016)
as Arthur Denning
Armageddon Time (2022)
as Aaron Rabinowitz
Kidnapping Mr. Heineken (2015)
as Freddy Heineken
Hearts in Atlantis (2001)
as Ted Brautigan
The Two Popes (2019)
as Joseph Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI
Bad Company (2002)
as Oakes
The Bounty (1984)
as Lieutenant William Bligh
Hitchcock (2012)
as Alfred Hitchcock
Blackway (2015)
as Lester
Howards End (1992)
as Henry J. Wilcox
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies (2025)
as Self (archive footage)
Proof (2005)
as Robert Llewellyn
Freud's Last Session (2023)
as Sigmund Freud
The Lion in Winter (1968)
as Richard
Zero Contact (2022)
as Finley Hart
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)
as Alfie
The Human Stain (2003)
as Coleman Silk
Mary (2024)
as King Herod
Slipstream (2007)
as Felix Bonhoeffer
The Virtuoso (2021)
as The Mentor
Sly (2023)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Wife & Dog (2027)
Actor
August (1996)
as Ieuan Davies
Nixon (1995)
as Richard Nixon
The Tenth Man (1988)
as Jean Louis Cheval
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood (2005)
as Self (archive footage)
The Housekeeper (—)
as Lord Grenville-Whithers
Magic (1978)
as Corky Withers / Fats (voice)
The Road to Wellville (1994)
as Dr. John Harvey Kellogg
Getting in Touch with your Inner Thor (2018)
as Self
Dreaming Slipstream Dream (2008)
as Self
Shortcut to Happiness (2007)
as Daniel Webster
84 Charing Cross Road (1987)
as Frank P. Doel
Spielberg (2017)
as John Quincy Adams (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Dresser (2015)
as Sir
Othello (1981)
as Othello
Bobby (2006)
as John Casey
360 (2012)
as John
The City of Your Final Destination (2009)
as Adam Gund
Maserati: The Brothers (2026)
as Luca Antonelli
Heartland (1989)
as Jack
Desperate Hours (1990)
as Tim Cornell
Shadowlands (1993)
as C. S. 'Jack' Lewis
Hannibal (2001)
as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens (1970)
as Charles Dickens
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
Red Dragon (2002)
as Hannibal Lecter
Nothing Like a Dame (2018)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Elyse (2020)
as Dr. Philip Lewis
The Species (—)
as Charles Darwin
Audrey Rose (1977)
as Elliot Hoover
Surviving Picasso (1996)
as Pablo Picasso
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1982)
as Quasimodo
Young Winston (1972)
as David Llyod George
Marlon Brando: The Wild One (1994)
as Self
When Eight Bells Toll (1971)
as Philip Calvert
The Looking Glass War (1970)
as John Avery
The White Bus (1967)
as Brechtian
Victory at Entebbe (1976)
as Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
The Girl from Petrovka (1974)
as Kostya
Arch of Triumph (1984)
as Dr. Ravic
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels (1996)
as Self
Earth and the American Dream (1992)
as Reader (voice)
Spotswood (1992)
as Errol Wallace
A Change of Seasons (1980)
as Adam Evans
The Bunker (1981)
as Adolf Hitler
The Good Father (1985)
as Bill Hooper
A Chorus of Disapproval (1989)
as Dafydd Ap Llewellyn
The Innocent (1993)
as Glass
Hearts and Flowers (1970)
as Bob
Guilty Conscience (1985)
as Arthur Jamison
Creating a Universe - The Making of Rebel Moon (2024)
as Self
One Man’s War (1991)
as Joel
International Velvet (1978)
as Captain Johnson
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film (2014)
as Self
Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure (1979)
as Captain Jones
Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs' (2001)
as Self
Bruno Penguin and the Staten Island Princess (—)
as Ben Windsor
All Creatures Great and Small (1975)
as Siegfried Farnon
Amistad (1997)
as John Quincy Adams
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (1976)
as Bruno Richard Hauptmann
A Doll's House (1973)
as Torvald Helmer
Where Are You (2022)
as Thomas
The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs' (1991)
as Self
Bare Knuckles (2010)
as Xavier Jonas (uncredited)
The Trial (1993)
as The Priest
Thor: From Asgard to Earth (2011)
as Self
Parkinson at 50 (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man, The Myth, The Movies (1992)
as Self
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba (2022)
as Self
The Many Faces of Zorro (2000)
as Self
Untitled Anthony Hopkins Documentary (—)
as Self
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' (2007)
as Self (archive footage)
Red, White, and Zero (1968)
as Brechtian
The Remains of the Day: The Filmmaker's Journey (2001)
as Self
Across the Lake (1988)
as Donald Campbell
The Arcata Promise (1974)
as Theo Gunge
A Tribute To Ismail Merchant (2005)
as Self (archive footage)
Unmasking Zorro (2001)
as Self
The Third Rule (2010)
as Fabian Hogarth
Hannibal Lecter, l'icône du mal par excellence (2010)
as Self
The True Story of Hannibal (2005)
as Self
Hamlet (1969)
as Claudius
Blunt (1987)
as Guy Burgess
A Visit to Grandpa’s (—)
as Grandpa
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal (2001)
as Self
Blind Loyalty, Hollow Honor: England's Fatal Flaw (2001)
as Self
Faroe Islands (1989)
as (voice)
Love & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day' (2001)
as Self
The Dawning (1988)
as Cassius / Angus Barrie
Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs (2010)
as Self
Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips (2013)
as Self / Ieuan Davies
2048 (—)
as Bryant
Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt (1969)
as Wat Tyler
Little Eyolf (1982)
as Alfred Allmers
Siegfried & Roy: The Magic Box (1999)
as Narrator
The Middle-of-the-Road Roadshow for All the Family (1973)
as Hi
A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon' (2003)
as Self
Eyes in the Trees (—)
as Dr. Addis
Uncle Vanya (1970)
as Astrov
Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends (2007)
as Self
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul (2001)
as Self
A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf (—)
as Hrothgar
Poet Game (1972)
as Hugh Saunders
The Childhood Friend (1974)
as Alexander Tashkov
The King of Covent Garden (—)
as Georg Friedrich Händel
The Three Sisters (1970)
as Andrey
Dark Victory (1976)
as Dr. Michael Grant
Cus & Mike (—)
as Cus D’Amato
The Lost Children of Berlin (1997)
as Narrator
Little Secret (1999)
as Narrator