Anthony Hopkins
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.
Movies (156)
Wife & Dog
2026
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
2025
Locked
2025
Mary
2024
Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver
2024
Creating a Universe - The Making of Rebel Moon
2024
Freud's Last Session
2023
One Life
2023
Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire
2023
Sly
2023
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022
The Son
2022
Armageddon Time
2022
Where Are You
2022
Zero Contact
2022
Parkinson at 50
2021
The Virtuoso
2021
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
2021
The Father
2020
Elyse
2020
The Two Popes
2019
Love, Antosha
2019
King Lear
2018
Nothing Like a Dame
2018
Spielberg
2017
Thor: Ragnarok
2017
Transformers: The Last Knight
2017
Collide
2016
Misconduct
2016
The Dresser
2015
Blackway
2015
Solace
2015
Kidnapping Mr. Heineken
2015
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
2014
Noah
2014
Thor: The Dark World
2013
Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips
2013
RED 2
2013
Hitchcock
2012
Marvel Studios: Building a Cinematic Universe
2012
360
2012
Thor: From Asgard to Earth
2011
Thor
2011
The Rite
2011
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
2010
Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs
2010
The Third Rule
2010
The Wolfman
2010
Bare Knuckles
2010
Hannibal Lecter, l'icône du mal par excellence
2010
The City of Your Final Destination
2009
Beowulf
2007
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
2007
Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends
2007
Shortcut to Happiness
2007
Fracture
2007
Slipstream
2007
All the King's Men
2006
Bobby
2006
A Tribute To Ismail Merchant
2005
The World's Fastest Indian
2005
Proof
2005
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005
Alexander
2004
The Human Stain
2003
A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'
2003
Red Dragon
2002
Bad Company
2002
Love & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day'
2001
Hearts in Atlantis
2001
Unmasking Zorro
2001
Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
2001
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
2001
Hannibal
2001
Blind Loyalty, Hollow Honor: England's Fatal Flaw
2001
The Remains of the Day: The Filmmaker's Journey
2001
The Many Faces of Zorro
2000
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
2000
Mission: Impossible II
2000
Titus
1999
Siegfried & Roy: The Magic Box
1999
Instinct
1999
Meet Joe Black
1998
Junket Whore
1998
The Mask of Zorro
1998
Amistad
1997
The Edge
1997
The Lost Children of Berlin
1997
Surviving Picasso
1996
August
1996
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
1996
Nixon
1995
Legends of the Fall
1994
The Road to Wellville
1994
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
1994
Shadowlands
1993
The Remains of the Day
1993
The Innocent
1993
The Trial
1993
Chaplin
1992
Bram Stoker's Dracula
1992
Earth and the American Dream
1992
Howards End
1992
Spotswood
1992
Freejack
1992
Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man. The Myth. The Movies.
1992
The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
1991
One Man’s War
1991
The Silence of the Lambs
1991
Desperate Hours
1990
A Chorus of Disapproval
1989
Heartland
1989
Faroe Islands
1989
The Tenth Man
1988
Across the Lake
1988
The Dawning
1988
84 Charing Cross Road
1987
Blunt
1987
The Good Father
1985
Guilty Conscience
1985
Arch of Triumph
1984
The Bounty
1984
Little Eyolf
1982
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1982
Othello
1981
The Bunker
1981
A Change of Seasons
1980
The Elephant Man
1980
Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure
1979
Magic
1978
International Velvet
1978
A Bridge Too Far
1977
Audrey Rose
1977
Victory at Entebbe
1976
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
1976
Dark Victory
1976
All Creatures Great and Small
1975
The Girl from Petrovka
1974
Juggernaut
1974
The Arcata Promise
1974
The Childhood Friend
1974
The Middle-of-the-Road Roadshow for All the Family
1973
A Doll's House
1973
Young Winston
1972
Poet Game
1972
When Eight Bells Toll
1971
Hearts and Flowers
1970
The Three Sisters
1970
The Looking Glass War
1970
Hamlet
1969
Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt
1969
The Lion in Winter
1968
Red, White, and Zero
1968
The White Bus
1967
Maserati: The Brothers
The Species
TV Shows (57)
Those About to Die
2024
Marvel Studios Legends
2021
Mythic Quest
2020
Westworld
2016
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Celebrities Uncensored
2003
Parkinson
1998
Predators Killing for a Living
1997
The View
1997
The Daily Show
1996
The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA
1995
Baseball
1994
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
To Be the Best
1992
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Charlie Rose
1991
Great Expectations
1989
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
The Play on One
1988
Mussolini and I
1985
Hollywood Wives
1985
Screen Two
1985
A Woman of Substance
1985
Six Centuries of Verse
1984
Natural World
1983
A Married Man
1983
Peter and Paul
1981
People's Choice Awards
1975
People's Choice Awards
1975
QB VII
1974
The Edwardians
1972
War & Peace
1972
Play for Today
1970
Play for Today
1970
Department S
1969
The Company of Five
1968
60 Minutes
1968
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
Omnibus
1967
BBC Play of the Month
1965
BBC Play of the Month
1965
BBC Play of the Month
1965
BBC Play of the Month
1965
The Man in Room 17
1965
Tony Awards
1956
Tony Awards
1956
The Oscars
1953
Today
1952
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Golden Globe Awards
1944