Anthony Hopkins
Actor

Anthony Hopkins

21 Movies
21 Credits
Personal Info
Known For Acting
Known Credits 21
Birthday December 31, 1937 (88 years old)
Place of Birth Margam, Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales, UK
Also Known As Philip Anthony Hopkins, Sir Anthony Hopkins
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Biography

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 (224)

Wife & Dog 2026
Locked 2025
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies 2025
Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver 2024
Mary 2024
Creating a Universe - The Making of Rebel Moon 2024
Those About to Die 2024
Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire 2023
Freud's Last Session 2023
Sly 2023
One Life 2023
Zero Contact 2022
The Son 2022
Armageddon Time 2022
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba 2022
Where Are You 2022
Welcome to Wrexham 2022
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony 2021
Parkinson at 50 2021
The Virtuoso 2021
Marvel Studios Legends 2021
The Father 2020
Elyse 2020
Mythic Quest 2020
The Two Popes 2019
Love, Antosha 2019
Nothing Like a Dame 2018
King Lear 2018
Spielberg 2017
Thor: Ragnarok 2017 Transformers: The Last Knight 2017
Collide 2016
Misconduct 2016
Westworld 2016
Kidnapping Mr. Heineken 2015
Solace 2015
Blackway 2015
The Dresser 2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert 2015
Noah 2014
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film 2014
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors 2014
Thor: The Dark World 2013 RED 2 2013
Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips 2013
360 2012
Hitchcock 2012
Marvel Studios: Building a Cinematic Universe 2012
Thor 2011 The Rite 2011
Thor: From Asgard to Earth 2011
The Wolfman 2010
Bare Knuckles 2010
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger 2010
The Third Rule 2010
Hannibal Lecter, l'icΓ΄ne du mal par excellence 2010
Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs 2010
The City of Your Final Destination 2009
Dreaming Slipstream Dream 2008
Beowulf 2007 Fracture 2007
Shortcut to Happiness 2007
Slipstream 2007
Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends 2007
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' 2007
All the King's Men 2006
Bobby 2006
Proof 2005
The World's Fastest Indian 2005
A Tribute To Ismail Merchant 2005
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood 2005
The True Story of Hannibal 2005
Alexander 2004
The Human Stain 2003
A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon' 2003
Celebrities Uncensored 2003
The Ellen DeGeneres Show 2003
Bad Company 2002
Red Dragon 2002
Hearts in Atlantis 2001
Hannibal 2001
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul 2001
Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs' 2001
Love & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day' 2001
Blind Loyalty, Hollow Honor: England's Fatal Flaw 2001
The Remains of the Day: The Filmmaker's Journey 2001
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal 2001
Unmasking Zorro 2001
Mission: Impossible II 2000 How the Grinch Stole Christmas 2000
The Many Faces of Zorro 2000
Instinct 1999
Titus 1999
Little Secret 1999
Siegfried & Roy: The Magic Box 1999
Meet Joe Black 1998 The Mask of Zorro 1998
Junket Whore 1998
Parkinson 1998
Amistad 1997
The Edge 1997
The Lost Children of Berlin 1997
The View 1997
Predators Killing for a Living 1997
Surviving Picasso 1996
August 1996
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels 1996
The Daily Show 1996
Nixon 1995
The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA 1995
The Road to Wellville 1994 Legends of the Fall 1994
Marlon Brando: The Wild One 1994
Inside the Actors Studio 1994
Baseball 1994
The Remains of the Day 1993
Shadowlands 1993
The Trial 1993
The Innocent 1993
Late Night with Conan O'Brien 1993
Chaplin 1992
Howards End 1992
Freejack 1992
Spotswood 1992
Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man, The Myth, The Movies 1992
Earth and the American Dream 1992
Bram Stoker's Dracula 1992
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno 1992
To Be the Best 1992
The Silence of the Lambs 1991
One Man’s War 1991
The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs' 1991
Charlie Rose 1991
Desperate Hours 1990
A Chorus of Disapproval 1989
Faroe Islands 1989
Heartland 1989
Great Expectations 1989
Across the Lake 1988
The Tenth Man 1988
The Dawning 1988
LIVE with Kelly and Mark 1988
The Play on One 1988
84 Charing Cross Road 1987
Blunt 1987
The Good Father 1985
Guilty Conscience 1985
Hollywood Wives 1985
A Woman of Substance 1985
Mussolini and I 1985
Screen Two 1985
The Bounty 1984
Arch of Triumph 1984
Six Centuries of Verse 1984
Harty 1983
Natural World 1983
A Married Man 1983
The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1982
Little Eyolf 1982
The Bunker 1981
Othello 1981
Peter and Paul 1981
The Elephant Man 1980
A Change of Seasons 1980
Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure 1979
Magic 1978
International Velvet 1978
A Bridge Too Far 1977
Audrey Rose 1977
Childhood 1977
Victory at Entebbe 1976
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case 1976
Dark Victory 1976
All Creatures Great and Small 1975
People's Choice Awards 1975
Juggernaut 1974
The Girl from Petrovka 1974
The Arcata Promise 1974
The Childhood Friend 1974
QB VII 1974
A Doll's House 1973
The Middle-of-the-Road Roadshow for All the Family 1973
Black and Blue 1973
Young Winston 1972
Poet Game 1972
War & Peace 1972
The Man Outside 1972
The Edwardians 1972
When Eight Bells Toll 1971
The Ten Commandments 1971
Film '72 1971
The Looking Glass War 1970
The Three Sisters 1970
Uncle Vanya 1970
Hearts and Flowers 1970
The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens 1970
Play for Today 1970
Hamlet 1969
Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt 1969
Department S 1969
The Lion in Winter 1968
Red, White, and Zero 1968
The Dick Cavett Show 1968
60 Minutes 1968
The Company of Five 1968
The White Bus 1967
Omnibus 1967
BBC Play of the Month 1965
The Man in Room 17 1965
Tony Awards 1956
The Oscars 1953
Today 1952
Hallmark Hall of Fame 1951
Golden Globe Awards 1944
Untitled Anthony Hopkins Documentary
Eyes in the Trees
The King of Covent Garden
Bruno Penguin and the Staten Island Princess
Cus & Mike
Maserati: The Brothers
The Housekeeper
A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf
A Visit to Grandpa’s
The Species