Anthony Hopkins

Born: 1937-12-31 in Margam, Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales, UK

Known For: Acting

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

2026

The Housekeeper as Lord DeWithers

2025

Locked as William

2024

Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver as Jimmy (voice)
Those About to Die as Emperor Vespasian
Mary as King Herod
Creating a Universe - The Making of Rebel Moon as Self

2023

One Life as Nicholas Winton
Freud's Last Session as Sigmund Freud
Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire as Jimmy (voice)
Sly as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2022

Armageddon Time as Aaron Rabinowitz
Zero Contact as Finley Hart
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba as Self
Where Are You as Thomas
The Son as Anthony

2021

The Virtuoso as The Mentor
Marvel Studios Legends as Odin (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony as Self (archive footage)
Parkinson at 50 as Self (archive footage)

2020

Mythic Quest as Everlight Narrator (voice)
The Father as Anthony
Elyse as Dr. Philip Lewis

2019

The Two Popes as Joseph Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI
Love, Antosha as Self (voice)

2018

King Lear as Lear
Nothing Like a Dame as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2017

Thor: Ragnarok as Odin
Transformers: The Last Knight as Sir Edmund Burton
Spielberg as John Quincy Adams (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mary and the Seven Dwarfs ... (Original Music Composer)

2016

Westworld as Dr. Robert Ford
Collide as Hagen Kahl
Misconduct as Arthur Denning

2011

Thor as Odin
The Rite as Father Lucas Trevant
Thor: From Asgard to Earth as Self

2010

Bare Knuckles as Xavier Jonas (uncredited)
The Wolfman as Sir John Talbot
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger as Alfie
The Third Rule as Fabian Hogarth
Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs as Self
Hannibal Lecter, l'icône du mal par excellence as Self

2009

The City of Your Final Destination as Adam Gund

2007

Fracture as Theodore Crawford
Beowulf as Hrothgar
Slipstream as Felix Bonhoeffer
Shortcut to Happiness as Daniel Webster
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' as Self (archive footage)
Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends as Self

2006

Bobby as John Casey
All the King's Men as Judge Irwin

2005

Proof as Robert Llewellyn
The World's Fastest Indian as Burt Munro
A Tribute To Ismail Merchant as Self (archive footage)
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
The True Story of Hannibal as Self

2004

Alexander as Old Ptolemy

2003

The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
The Human Stain as Coleman Silk
A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon' as Self
Celebrities Uncensored as Self

2002

Bad Company as Oakes
Red Dragon as Hannibal Lecter

2001

Hearts in Atlantis as Ted Brautigan
Unmasking Zorro as Self
Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs' as Self
Hannibal as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
Love & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day' as Self
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul as Self
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal as Self
The Remains of the Day: The Filmmaker's Journey as Self
Blind Loyalty, Hollow Honor: England's Fatal Flaw as Self

2000

How the Grinch Stole Christmas as Narrator (voice)
Mission: Impossible II as Mission Commander Swanbeck (uncredited)
The Many Faces of Zorro as Self

1999

Titus as Titus Andronicus
Instinct as Dr. Ethan Powell
Little Secret as Narrator
Siegfried & Roy: The Magic Box as Narrator
Return Journey ... (Director)

1998

Meet Joe Black as William Parrish
The Mask of Zorro as Don Diego de la Vega / Zorro
Parkinson as Self
Junket Whore as Self

1997

The View as Self
The Edge as Charles Morse
Amistad as John Quincy Adams
Predators Killing for a Living
The Lost Children of Berlin as Narrator

1996

The Daily Show as Self
Surviving Picasso as Pablo Picasso
August as Ieuan Davies
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels as Self

1995

Nixon as Richard Nixon
The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA

1994

Legends of the Fall as Col. William Ludlow
Baseball as (voice)
The Road to Wellville as Dr. John Harvey Kellogg
Marlon Brando: The Wild One as Self
Inside the Actors Studio as Self

1993

Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
Shadowlands as C. S. 'Jack' Lewis
The Trial as The Priest
The Innocent as Glass
The Remains of the Day as James Stevens

1992

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as Self
Bram Stoker's Dracula as Professor Abraham Van Helsing
Howards End as Henry J. Wilcox
Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man. The Myth. The Movies. as Self
Freejack as Ian McCandless
Chaplin as George Hayden
Earth and the American Dream as Reader (voice)
Spotswood as Errol Wallace
To Be the Best as Jack Figg

1991

Charlie Rose as Self
The Silence of the Lambs as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
One Man’s War as Joel
The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs' as Self

1990

Desperate Hours as Tim Cornell

1989

Heartland as Jack
A Chorus of Disapproval as Dafydd Ap Llewellyn
Great Expectations as Abel Magwitch
Faroe Islands as (voice)

1988

LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest
The Dawning as Cassius / Angus Barrie
The Tenth Man as Jean Louis Cheval
Across the Lake as Donald Campbell

1987

84 Charing Cross Road as Frank P. Doel
Blunt as Guy Burgess

1985

Screen Two as The Priest
Guilty Conscience as Arthur Jamison
The Good Father as Bill Hooper
A Woman of Substance as Jack Figg
Hollywood Wives as Neil Gray
Mussolini and I as Count Galeazzo Ciano

1984

The Bounty as Lieutenant William Bligh
Six Centuries of Verse as Self - Reader
Arch of Triumph as Dr. Ravic

1983

Natural World
Harty as Self
A Married Man as John Strickland

1982

Little Eyolf as Alfred Allmers
The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Quasimodo

1981

Othello as Othello
The Bunker as Adolf Hitler
Peter and Paul as Paul of Tarsus

1980

The Elephant Man as Frederick Treves
A Change of Seasons as Adam Evans

1979

Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure as Captain Jones

1978

International Velvet as Captain Johnson
Magic as Corky Withers/Fats (voice)

1977

A Bridge Too Far as Lt. Col. John D. Frost
Audrey Rose as Elliot Hoover

1976

Dark Victory as Dr. Michael Grant
Victory at Entebbe as Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case as Bruno Richard Hauptmann

1975

People's Choice Awards as Self - Presenter
All Creatures Great and Small as Siegfried Farnon

1974

Juggernaut as Supt. John McCleod
The Girl from Petrovka as Kostya
The Childhood Friend as Alexander Tashkov
QB VII as Adam Kelno
The Arcata Promise as Theo Gunge

1973

A Doll's House as Torvald Helmer
Black and Blue as Hi
The Middle-of-the-Road Roadshow for All the Family as Hi

1972

Poet Game as Hugh Saunders
Young Winston as David Llyod George
The Edwardians as David Lloyd George
War & Peace as Pierre Bezukhov
The Man Outside as Albert Watts

1971

When Eight Bells Toll as Philip Calvert
The Ten Commandments as Steve

1970

Play for Today as Alexander Tashkov
The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens as Charles Dickens
The Three Sisters as Andrey
The Looking Glass War as John Avery
Hearts and Flowers as Bob
Uncle Vanya as Astrov

1969

Hamlet as Claudius
Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt as Wat Tyler
Department S as Greg Halliday

1968

60 Minutes as Self
The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
The Lion in Winter as Richard
Red, White, and Zero as Brechtian

1967

The White Bus as Brechtian

1965

BBC Play of the Month as Alfred Allmers
The Man in Room 17 as Dr. Harding

1956

Tony Awards as Self - Host

1953

The Oscars as Self

1952

Today as Self

1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame as Siegfried

1944

Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee