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.
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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.
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Known for
Those About to Die
Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver
Creating a Universe - The Making of Rebel Moon
Freud's Last Session
One Life
Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire
Sly
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
The Son
Armageddon Time
Where Are You?
Zero Contact
Parkinson at 50
The Virtuoso
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
Marvel Studios Legends
The Father
Elyse
Mythic Quest
Now Is Everything
Love, Antosha
King Lear
Nothing Like a Dame
Mary and the Seven Dwarfs
Spielberg
Thor: Ragnarok
Transformers: The Last Knight
Westworld
Collide
Misconduct
The Dresser
Blackway
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Solace
Kidnapping Mr. Heineken
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
Noah
Thor: The Dark World
Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips
RED 2
Hitchcock
360
Thor: Assembling the Troupe
Thor
The Rite
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs
The Third Rule
The Wolfman
Hannibal Lecter, l'icône du mal par excellence
The City of Your Final Destination
Beowulf
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends
Fracture
Slipstream
All the King's Men
Bobby
A Tribute To Ismail Merchant
The World's Fastest Indian
Proof
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Alexander
The Human Stain
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Shortcut to Happiness
Celebrities Uncensored
Red Dragon
Bad Company
Love & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day'
Hearts in Atlantis
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
Hannibal
The Remains of the Day: The Filmmaker's Journey
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Mission: Impossible II
Titus
Siegfried & Roy: The Magic Box
Instinct
Meet Joe Black
Junket Whore
The Mask of Zorro
Amistad
The Edge
Predators Killing for a Living
The View
The Lost Children of Berlin
Surviving Picasso
August
The Daily Show
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
Nixon
Screen Actors Guild Awards
Legends of the Fall
The Road to Wellville
Baseball
Inside the Actors Studio
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
Shadowlands
The Remains of the Day
The Innocent
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Trial
Chaplin
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Earth and the American Dream
To Be the Best
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Howards End
Spotswood
Freejack
Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man. The Myth. The Movies.
Charlie Rose
The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
One Man’s War
The Silence of the Lambs
Desperate Hours
A Chorus of Disapproval
Heartland
Faroe Islands
The Tenth Man
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The Dawning
Across the Lake
84 Charing Cross Road
Blunt
The Good Father
Mussolini: The Decline and Fall of Il Duce
Arch of Triumph
Mussolini and I
Guilty Conscience
Hollywood Wives
A Woman of Substance
The Bounty
Natural World
A Married Man
Little Eyolf
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Othello
The Bunker
Peter and Paul
A Change of Seasons
The Elephant Man
Red, White, and Zero
BBC Television Shakespeare
Magic
International Velvet
A Bridge Too Far
Audrey Rose
Victory at Entebbe
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
Dark Victory
All Creatures Great and Small
People's Choice Awards
The Girl from Petrovka
Juggernaut
The Arcata Promise
The Childhood Friend
QB VII
A Doll's House
The Edwardians
War and Peace
Young Winston
When Eight Bells Toll
Hearts and Flowers
Play for Today
The Three Sisters
The Looking Glass War
Hamlet
Department S
Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt
The Lion in Winter
The Dick Cavett Show
The White Bus
BBC Play of the Month
The Man In Room 17
Tony Awards
The Oscars
Today
Hallmark Hall of Fame