Anthony Hopkins

Known for ActingBorn 1937-12-31 (age 88)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.Read more

Movies & web series

Parkinson at 50

A Tribute To Ismail Merchant

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

People's Choice Awards

Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips

The Father

Hallmark Hall of Fame

The Silence of the Lambs

Westworld

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

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

One Life

Welcome to Wrexham

The Elephant Man

Six Centuries of Verse

Harty

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

Thor: Ragnarok

The World's Fastest Indian

Spielberg

Uncle Vanya

The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens

The Two Popes

Those About to Die

Love, Antosha

Marvel Studios Legends

Inside the Actors Studio

QB VII

Sly

A Woman of Substance

Baseball

Mythic Quest

Bram Stoker's Dracula

Meet Joe Black

Fracture

Chaplin

Legends of the Fall

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

The Remains of the Day

The Childhood Friend

Natural World

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs

International Velvet

Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal

One Man’s War

Thor: From Asgard to Earth

The Lion in Winter