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