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Anthony Hopkins

Anthony Hopkins

Acting · Directing · Sound

Born December 31, 1937, Margam, Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales, UK

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.

Filmography

Appearances as themselves (60)
  • 2025Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies — Self (archive footage)
  • 2024Creating a Universe - The Making of Rebel Moon — Self
  • 2023Sly — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • 2022Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba — Self
  • Welcome to Wrexham — Self (archive footage)
  • 2021Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony — Self (archive footage)
  • 2021Parkinson at 50 — Self (archive footage)
  • 2019Love, Antosha — Self (voice)
  • 2018Getting in Touch with your Inner Thor — Self
  • 2018Nothing Like a Dame — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Guest
  • 2014Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film — Self
  • Variety Studio: Actors on Actors — Self
  • 2013Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips — Self / Ieuan Davies
  • 2011Thor: From Asgard to Earth — Self
  • 2010Hannibal Lecter, l'icône du mal par excellence — Self
  • 2010Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs — Self
  • 2008Dreaming Slipstream Dream — Self
  • 2007The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' — Self (archive footage)
  • 2007Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends — Self
  • 2005A Tribute To Ismail Merchant — Self (archive footage)
  • 2005Nos Bastidores de Hollywood — Self (archive footage)
  • 2005The True Story of Hannibal — Self
  • Parkinson — Self - Guest (archive footage)
  • 2003A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon' — Self
  • Celebrities Uncensored — Self
  • The Ellen DeGeneres Show — Self
  • 2001Blind Loyalty, Hollow Honor: England's Fatal Flaw — Self
  • 2001Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal — Self
  • 2001Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul — Self
  • 2001Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs' — Self
  • 2001Love & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day' — Self
  • 2001The Remains of the Day: The Filmmaker's Journey — Self
  • 2001Unmasking Zorro — Self
  • 2000The Many Faces of Zorro — Self
  • 1998Junket Whore — Self
  • Parkinson — Self
  • The View — Self
  • 1996Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels — Self
  • The Daily Show — Self
  • The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA — Self
  • Inside the Actors Studio — Self
  • 1994Marlon Brando: The Wild One — Self
  • Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
  • 1992Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man, The Myth, The Movies — Self
  • The Tonight Show with Jay Leno — Self
  • Charlie Rose — Self
  • 1991The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs' — Self
  • LIVE with Kelly and Mark — Self - Guest
  • Six Centuries of Verse — Self - Reader
  • Harty — Self
  • People's Choice Awards — Self - Presenter, Self - Accepting Award
  • Film '72 — Self
  • 60 Minutes — Self
  • The Dick Cavett Show — Self - Guest
  • Tony Awards — Self - Host, Self - Co-Host
  • The Oscars — Self
  • Today — Self
  • Golden Globe Awards — Self - Nominee, Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient
  • Untitled Anthony Hopkins Documentary — Self
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