Anthony Hopkins

Acting · 5.7 popularity

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Movies

170

Born: December 31, 1937
From: Margam, Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales, UK
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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.

Works

170 films

Thor: Ragnarok

20177.6

Thor

20116.8

Thor: The Dark World

20136.5

The Father

20208.1

Transformers: The Last Knight

20176.1

Meet Joe Black

19987.4

Mission: Impossible II

20006.1

How the Grinch Stole Christmas

20006.8

Bram Stoker's Dracula

19927.4

Alexander

20046.0

The Mask of Zorro

19986.6

Legends of the Fall

19947.4

RED 2

20136.5

One Life

20237.8

Noah

20145.7

Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire

20236.2

Beowulf

20075.9

Fracture

20077.3

The Elephant Man

19808.0

The Wolfman

20105.9

The Silence of the Lambs

19918.3

Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver

20246.1

The Rite

20116.1

Solace

20156.4

A Bridge Too Far

19777.2

The Edge

19976.9

The Lion in Winter

19687.4

The Son

20226.8

Locked

20256.2

Bad Company

20025.5

The Remains of the Day

19937.4

The Virtuoso

20215.9

Howards End

19927.0

The Two Popes

20197.5

The World's Fastest Indian

20057.7

Instinct

19996.5

Chaplin

19927.4

The Bounty

19846.8

King Lear

20186.1

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

20105.9

Armageddon Time

20226.4

Red Dragon

20027.0

Freejack

19925.5

Hitchcock

20126.6

Collide

20165.6

The Human Stain

20036.0

Sly

20237.2

Misconduct

20165.6

Shortcut to Happiness

20075.6

Bobby

20066.4

Hearts in Atlantis

20016.8

All the King's Men

20065.8

Freud's Last Session

20236.6

Juggernaut

19746.3

Titus

19996.4

Love, Antosha

20197.4

Blackway

20155.3

The Dresser

20156.2

Junket Whore

19985.0

Nixon

19956.8

84 Charing Cross Road

19877.2

Kidnapping Mr. Heineken

20156.0

Mary

20246.3

Siegfried & Roy: The Magic Box

19996.5

Wife & Dog

2027

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

200510.0

Spielberg

20177.5

Audrey Rose

19775.7

The Road to Wellville

19945.6

Hannibal

20016.8

Proof

20056.4

The Innocent

19936.1

The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'

20078.0

Magic

19786.8

Maserati: The Brothers

2026

Desperate Hours

19905.4

The Species

2026

360

20125.7

Slipstream

20074.9

Shadowlands

19936.9

Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony

20214.5

The Bunker

19816.3

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

19825.8

The Housekeeper

2026

Marlon Brando: The Wild One

19946.5

The City of Your Final Destination

20095.7

Surviving Picasso

19965.8

Zero Contact

20224.0

Earth and the American Dream

19926.7

Young Winston

19726.2

Nothing Like a Dame

20186.8

The Tenth Man

19886.7

The Trial

19936.0

Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels

19966.4

The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens

19708.0

Marvel Studios: Building a Cinematic Universe

20126.0

When Eight Bells Toll

19715.7

Spotswood

19925.4

Victory at Entebbe

19765.1

Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure

19796.7

Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies

2025

August

19964.3

Heartland

19896.5

A Chorus of Disapproval

19895.4

The White Bus

19676.0

Where Are You

20221.6

The Girl from Petrovka

19745.3

The Looking Glass War

19705.6

A Tribute To Ismail Merchant

200510.0

Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film

20144.8

The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case

19766.5

All Creatures Great and Small

19756.6

Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips

20138.3

International Velvet

19787.4

Amistad

19977.0

Bare Knuckles

20103.1

Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul

20016.3

A Change of Seasons

19805.7

A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf

2026

Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal

20017.1

The Good Father

19855.6

Thor: From Asgard to Earth

20117.0

Arch of Triumph

19845.2

Dreaming Slipstream Dream

2008

Unmasking Zorro

20016.0

Parkinson at 50

202110.0

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

20227.8

Othello

19816.7

Guilty Conscience

19856.0

A Doll's House

19735.4

The True Story of Hannibal

20057.0

Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs

20107.3

Love & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day'

20016.5

Across the Lake

19886.0

The Dawning

19885.9

The Many Faces of Zorro

20004.4

Creating a Universe - The Making of Rebel Moon

20246.3

Hamlet

19695.8

A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'

20037.8

A Visit to Grandpa’s

2026

Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man, The Myth, The Movies

19926.4

Untitled Anthony Hopkins Documentary

2026

The Arcata Promise

1974

Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'

20017.3

The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'

19916.0

Bruno Penguin and the Staten Island Princess

2026

The King of Covent Garden

2026

Elyse

20205.1

Hannibal Lecter, l'icône du mal par excellence

20105.5

Faroe Islands

1989

Dark Victory

1976

Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt

1969

One Man’s War

19917.2

Red, White, and Zero

19685.0

Blind Loyalty, Hollow Honor: England's Fatal Flaw

20017.0

Hearts and Flowers

19706.5

The Remains of the Day: The Filmmaker's Journey

20016.5

The Third Rule

20106.0

The Lost Children of Berlin

19976.5

Little Eyolf

19827.0

The Childhood Friend

19747.5

Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends

20074.8

Poet Game

1972

The Three Sisters

19706.5

Blunt

19875.0

Cus & Mike

2026

Uncle Vanya

19708.0

Eyes in the Trees

2026

The Middle-of-the-Road Roadshow for All the Family

1973

Little Secret

1999