Anthony Hopkins
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1937-12-31
Place of Birth
Margam, Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales, UK
Anthony Hopkins
Biography
Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins CBE 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Anthony Hopkins, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Also Known For
The Silence of the Lambs
Feb 14, 1991
Meet Joe Black
Nov 12, 1998
Mission: Impossible II
May 24, 2000
The Remains of the Day
Nov 05, 1993
Zero Contact
May 27, 2022
Thor
Apr 21, 2011
All the King's Men
Sep 10, 2006
Beowulf
Nov 05, 2007
Bad Company
Jun 07, 2002
The Elephant Man
Oct 09, 1980
Alexander
Nov 21, 2004
The Bounty
May 04, 1984
Bobby
Sep 05, 2006
Chaplin
Dec 17, 1992
Shadowlands
Dec 25, 1993
The Road to Wellville
Oct 28, 1994
The Human Stain
Oct 29, 2003
Legends of the Fall
Dec 23, 1994
Nixon
Dec 22, 1995
Locked
Mar 20, 2025
A Bridge Too Far
Jun 15, 1977
Victory at Entebbe
Dec 22, 1976
Hearts in Atlantis
Sep 28, 2001
The Son
Nov 10, 2022
Fracture
Apr 19, 2007
Armageddon Time
Oct 28, 2022
The Wolfman
Feb 10, 2010
Amistad
Dec 10, 1997
Desperate Hours
Oct 05, 1990
Howards End
Mar 13, 1992
Instinct
Jun 04, 1999
The Edge
Sep 06, 1997
Red Dragon
Oct 02, 2002
Freejack
Jan 17, 1992
Hannibal
Feb 08, 2001
Proof
Sep 05, 2005
The Mask of Zorro
Jul 16, 1998
Titus
Dec 25, 1999
Magic
Nov 08, 1978
Shortcut to Happiness
Jul 13, 2003
The World's Fastest Indian
Oct 12, 2005
The Bunker
Apr 15, 1981
Bare Knuckles
Jan 01, 2010
Across the Lake
Sep 04, 1988
International Velvet
Jul 19, 1978
Juggernaut
Sep 25, 1974
Surviving Picasso
Sep 04, 1996
A Doll's House
Apr 10, 1973
Hamlet
Dec 21, 1969
The City of Your Final Destination
Mar 21, 2009
A Change of Seasons
Dec 01, 1980
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
Sep 22, 2010
84 Charing Cross Road
Feb 13, 1987
The Girl from Petrovka
Dec 12, 1974
The Arcata Promise
Sep 22, 1974
When Eight Bells Toll
Mar 09, 1971
The Looking Glass War
Jan 02, 1970
The Good Father
Nov 01, 1985
Spotswood
Jan 23, 1992
Guilty Conscience
Apr 02, 1985
Young Winston
Jul 20, 1972
The Rite
Jan 28, 2011
Audrey Rose
Apr 06, 1977
Slipstream
Feb 10, 2007
The Lion in Winter
Aug 20, 1968
The Trial
Jun 18, 1993
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Feb 02, 1982
Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt
Jan 01, 1969
The Third Rule
Apr 23, 2010
The Innocent
Sep 16, 1993
Thor: The Dark World
Oct 30, 2013
Noah
Mar 07, 2014
The White Bus
Dec 01, 1967
360
Jul 25, 2012
The Three Sisters
Jan 18, 1970
Uncle Vanya
Nov 08, 1970
The Tenth Man
Dec 04, 1988
Little Eyolf
Jul 19, 1982
Arch of Triumph
Dec 19, 1984
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
Mar 26, 2021
Hitchcock
Nov 22, 2012
A Chorus of Disapproval
Aug 18, 1989
RED 2
Jul 18, 2013
Othello
Oct 04, 1981
August
Aug 08, 1996
The Dawning
Jun 08, 1988
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Nov 26, 2022
Parkinson at 50
Aug 28, 2021
One Man’s War
Apr 20, 1991
Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver
Apr 19, 2024
Kidnapping Mr. Heineken
Mar 12, 2015
Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire
Dec 15, 2023
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
Feb 26, 1976
Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends
Sep 12, 2007
A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'
Apr 03, 2003
Nothing Like a Dame
May 02, 2018
A Tribute To Ismail Merchant
Oct 30, 2005
Faroe Islands
Jan 01, 1989
Freud's Last Session
Dec 22, 2023
Collide
Jun 10, 2016
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
Apr 01, 2001
Untitled Anthony Hopkins Documentary
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
Aug 25, 2014
Solace
Sep 03, 2015
Eyes in the Trees
Blackway
Oct 03, 2015
Sly
Sep 16, 2023
Spielberg
Oct 05, 2017
Dark Victory
Feb 05, 1976
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Mar 01, 2005
Mary
Dec 12, 2024
The Dresser
Oct 31, 2015
Creating a Universe - The Making of Rebel Moon
Apr 18, 2024
Misconduct
Feb 05, 2016
Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure
Nov 21, 1979
The King of Covent Garden
The Middle-of-the-Road Roadshow for All the Family
Aug 21, 1973
Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man. The Myth. The Movies.
Jan 01, 1992
Bruno Penguin and the Staten Island Princess
Red, White, and Zero
Dec 21, 1979
Thor: Ragnarok
Oct 02, 2017
Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Aug 21, 2001
Junket Whore
Oct 12, 1998
Hannibal Lecter, l'icône du mal par excellence
Jan 01, 2010
Transformers: The Last Knight
Jun 16, 2017
Little Secret
Sep 16, 1999
Poet Game
Mar 14, 1972
Love & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day'
Oct 22, 2001
Thor: From Asgard to Earth
Sep 13, 2011
All Creatures Great and Small
Jul 27, 1975
Siegfried & Roy: The Magic Box
Oct 01, 1999
Blunt
Jan 11, 1987
King Lear
May 28, 2018
The Two Popes
Nov 27, 2019
Hearts and Flowers
Dec 03, 1970
Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips
Sep 28, 2013
The Father
Dec 23, 2020
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
Aug 11, 1994
Earth and the American Dream
Oct 01, 1992
Where Are You
Oct 21, 2022
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Nov 13, 1992
The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Aug 20, 1991
Heartland
Feb 21, 1989
Love, Antosha
Aug 02, 2019
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
May 19, 1996
Cus & Mike
The Childhood Friend
Jun 27, 1974
The Lost Children of Berlin
Jan 01, 1997
The True Story of Hannibal
Jan 02, 2005
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Nov 17, 2000
One Life
Dec 21, 2023
Elyse
Jul 01, 2020
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
Oct 08, 2007
Blind Loyalty, Hollow Honor: England's Fatal Flaw
Jan 01, 2001
The Remains of the Day: The Filmmaker's Journey
Jan 01, 2001
The Virtuoso
Apr 30, 2021
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
Aug 21, 2001
Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs
Sep 08, 2010
Maserati: The Brothers
Oct 16, 2025
The Housekeeper
Wife & Dog
A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf
The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens
Jul 02, 1970
Unmasking Zorro
Sep 25, 2001
Breaking the Silence: Picture-in-Picture Commentary
Jan 30, 2007
Inside the Actors Studio
Aug 14, 1994
Department S
Sep 09, 1969
The View
Aug 11, 1997
The Daily Show
Jul 22, 1996
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Sep 05, 1988
Today
Jan 14, 1952
War & Peace
Sep 29, 1972
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
May 25, 1992
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Dec 24, 1951
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Sep 13, 1993
Mythic Quest
Feb 07, 2020
Celebrities Uncensored
Jun 04, 2003
Play for Today
Oct 15, 1970
Black and Blue
Aug 14, 1973
Harty
Sep 20, 1983
The Man Outside
May 12, 1972
Natural World
Oct 30, 1983
The Oscars
Mar 19, 1953
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Dec 03, 1978
Screen Actors Guild Awards
Feb 25, 1995
The Edwardians
Nov 21, 1972
Hollywood Wives
Feb 17, 1985
Predators Killing for a Living
Sep 03, 1997
People's Choice Awards
Mar 04, 1975
QB VII
Apr 29, 1974
BBC Play of the Month
Oct 19, 1965
BBC Play of the Month
Oct 19, 1965
BBC Play of the Month
Oct 19, 1965
Marvel Studios Legends
Jan 08, 2021
Westworld
Oct 02, 2016
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Sep 08, 2015
Six Centuries of Verse
May 02, 1984
To Be the Best
Aug 02, 1992
Peter and Paul
Apr 12, 1981
A Woman of Substance
Jan 02, 1985
Great Expectations
Jun 21, 1991
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Dec 24, 1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Dec 24, 1951
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Sep 08, 2003
The Man in Room 17
Jun 11, 1965
Mussolini and I
Sep 08, 1985
A Married Man
Jul 10, 1983
Tony Awards
Apr 01, 1956
Those About to Die
Jul 18, 2024
The Dick Cavett Show
Jun 06, 1968
Charlie Rose
Sep 30, 1991
Play for Today
Oct 15, 1970
People's Choice Awards
Mar 04, 1975
Golden Globe Awards
Jan 20, 1944
Tony Awards
Apr 01, 1956
Golden Globe Awards
Jan 20, 1944
Parkinson
Jan 09, 1998
Golden Globe Awards
Jan 20, 1944
60 Minutes
Sep 24, 1968
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Dec 21, 2014
Baseball
Sep 18, 1994
The Ten Commandments
Mar 30, 1971