
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
—

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
—

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
—

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
—

The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
1991
The King of Covent Garden
—

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
—