Anthony Hopkins
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.
221 acting credits · 3 directing credits
Acting · 221
The Daily Show
1996
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Westworld
2016
Golden Globe Awards
1944
The View
1997
Play for Today
1970
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
Tony Awards
1956
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
60 Minutes
1968
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
BBC Play of the Month
1965
Natural World
1983
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
Omnibus
1967
The Oscars
1953
Screen Two
1985
People's Choice Awards
1975
Marvel Studios Legends
2021
Mythic Quest
2020
Thor: Ragnarok
2017
Thor
2011
Film '72
1971
Thor: The Dark World
2013
Parkinson
1998
Transformers: The Last Knight
2017
Baseball
1994
Meet Joe Black
1998
Mission: Impossible II
2000
Bram Stoker's Dracula
1992
Those About to Die
2024
Department S
1969
Today
1952
Fracture
2007
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
2000
Alexander
2004
Noah
2014
Legends of the Fall
1994
A Woman of Substance
1985
Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire
2023
The Mask of Zorro
1998
Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver
2024
The Play on One
1988
Charlie Rose
1991
RED 2
2013
Beowulf
2007
The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA
1995
Harty
1983
The Silence of the Lambs
1991
Solace
2015
The Father
2020
The Edge
1997
A Bridge Too Far
1977
The Elephant Man
1980
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
The Man in Room 17
1965
War & Peace
1972
The Wolfman
2010
Locked
2025
The World's Fastest Indian
2005
The Edwardians
1972
The Remains of the Day
1993
The Lion in Winter
1968
The Bounty
1984
Sly
2023
Armageddon Time
2022
Spielberg
2017
The Rite
2011
One Life
2023
Six Centuries of Verse
1984
Bobby
2006
Hollywood Wives
1985
The Son
2022
Titus
1999
The Two Popes
2019
The Virtuoso
2021
Howards End
1992
Bad Company
2002
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
1996
Collide
2016
Blackway
2015
Black and Blue
1973
Instinct
1999
Hearts in Atlantis
2001
Hitchcock
2012
QB VII
1974
Wife & Dog
2026
Freejack
1992
Freud's Last Session
2023
Nixon
1995
Peter and Paul
1981
Chaplin
1992
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
2010
Misconduct
2016
The Human Stain
2003
All the King's Men
2006
Proof
2005
Great Expectations
1989
King Lear
2018
The Road to Wellville
1994
The Ten Commandments
1971
Shortcut to Happiness
2007
Shadowlands
1993
The Company of Five
1968
Kidnapping Mr. Heineken
2015
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
2001
360
2012
Mussolini and I
1985
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
2007
Mary
2024
Magic
1978
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
Audrey Rose
1977
Love, Antosha
2019
To Be the Best
1992
Surviving Picasso
1996
Red Dragon
2002
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
2021
Desperate Hours
1990
Slipstream
2007
Junket Whore
1998
A Change of Seasons
1980
Juggernaut
1974
The Dresser
2015
Creating a Universe - The Making of Rebel Moon
2024
84 Charing Cross Road
1987
A Married Man
1983
Hannibal
2001
Earth and the American Dream
1992
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022
When Eight Bells Toll
1971
Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man, The Myth, The Movies
1992
The Tenth Man
1988
International Velvet
1978
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
2014
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1982
Maserati: The Brothers
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The Bunker
1981
The City of Your Final Destination
2009
Spotswood
1992
The Innocent
1993
Zero Contact
2022
All Creatures Great and Small
1975
The Man Outside
1972
A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'
2003
Predators Killing for a Living
1997
Victory at Entebbe
1976
The True Story of Hannibal
2005
Amistad
1997
The Looking Glass War
1970
The Good Father
1985
Dark Victory
1976
Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
2001
The Housekeeper
—
Nothing Like a Dame
2018
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
2001
Arch of Triumph
1984
Guilty Conscience
1985
Marvel Studios: Building a Cinematic Universe
2012
Love & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day'
2001
The Remains of the Day: The Filmmaker's Journey
2001
Young Winston
1972
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
2025
Bare Knuckles
2010
The Trial
1993
Hamlet
1969
Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends
2007
Thor: From Asgard to Earth
2011
Bruno Penguin and the Staten Island Princess
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Othello
1981
A Chorus of Disapproval
1989
Red, White, and Zero
1968
Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips
2013
The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens
1970
Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure
1979
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
1994
Heartland
1989
The Girl from Petrovka
1974
Celebrities Uncensored
2003
August
1996
A Tribute To Ismail Merchant
2005
A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf
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The Middle-of-the-Road Roadshow for All the Family
1973
Parkinson at 50
2021
Poet Game
1972
A Doll's House
1973
Blind Loyalty, Hollow Honor: England's Fatal Flaw
2001
Across the Lake
1988
One Man’s War
1991
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
1976
Unmasking Zorro
2001
Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt
1969
Hannibal Lecter, l'icône du mal par excellence
2010
Elyse
2020
Blunt
1987
Eyes in the Trees
—
The Three Sisters
1970
Where Are You
2022
The Dawning
1988
Siegfried & Roy: The Magic Box
1999
The Species
—
The Many Faces of Zorro
2000
Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs
2010
The Lost Children of Berlin
1997
The Childhood Friend
1974
A Visit to Grandpa’s
—
Faroe Islands
1989
Untitled Anthony Hopkins Documentary
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The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
1991
The King of Covent Garden
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The Third Rule
2010
Little Secret
1999
Uncle Vanya
1970
The White Bus
1967
Hearts and Flowers
1970
The Arcata Promise
1974
Little Eyolf
1982
Cus & Mike
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