Acting
Anthony Hopkins
EN, ET, PL, PT cinema · 173 credits
Born
31 December 1937 (age 88)
Birthplace
Margam, Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales, UK
Also known as Philip Anthony Hopkins · Sir 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.
Known for
Filmography
Eyes in the Trees
Eyes in the Trees
as Dr. Addis
The King of Covent Garden
The King of Covent Garden
as Georg Friedrich Händel
Bruno Penguin and the Staten Island Princess
Bruno Penguin and the Staten Island Princess
as Ben Windsor
Cus & Mike
Cus & Mike
as Cus D’Amato
The Housekeeper
The Housekeeper
as Lord Grenville-Whithers
A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf
A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf
as Hrothgar
The Species
as Charles Darwin
2048
2048
as Bryant
Maserati: The Brothers
as Luca Antonelli
Locked
as William
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
as Self (archive footage)
Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver
as Jimmy (voice)
Mary
as King Herod
Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire
as Jimmy (voice)
Freud's Last Session
as Sigmund Freud
Sly
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
One Life
as Nicholas Winton
Zero Contact
as Finley Hart
The Son
as Anthony
Armageddon Time
as Aaron Rabinowitz
Where Are You
as Thomas
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
as Self (archive footage)
Parkinson at 50
as Self (archive footage)
The Virtuoso
as The Mentor
The Father
as Anthony
Elyse
as Dr. Philip Lewis, Music, Producer
The Two Popes
as Joseph Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI
Love, Antosha
as Self (voice)
Nothing Like a Dame
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
King Lear
as Lear
Getting in Touch with your Inner Thor
2018
Getting in Touch with your Inner Thor
as Self
Spielberg
as John Quincy Adams (archive footage) (uncredited)
Thor: Ragnarok
as Odin
Transformers: The Last Knight
as Sir Edmund Burton
Mary and the Seven Dwarfs
Original Music Composer
Collide
as Hagen Kahl
Misconduct
as Arthur Denning
Kidnapping Mr. Heineken
as Freddy Heineken
Solace
as John Clancy
Blackway
as Lester, Producer
The Dresser
as Sir
Noah
as Methuselah
RED 2
as Bailey
Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips
as Self / Ieuan Davies
360
as John
Hitchcock
as Alfred Hitchcock
Thor
as Odin
The Rite
as Father Lucas Trevant
The Wolfman
as Sir John Talbot
Bare Knuckles
as Xavier Jonas (uncredited)
The Third Rule
as Fabian Hogarth
The City of Your Final Destination
as Adam Gund
Beowulf
as Hrothgar (Voice)
Fracture
as Ted Crawford
Shortcut to Happiness
as Daniel Webster
Slipstream
as Felix Bonhoeffer, Writer, Director, Original Music Composer
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
as Self (archive footage)
All the King's Men
as Judge Irwin
Bobby
as John Casey, Executive Producer
Proof
as Robert Llewellyn
The World's Fastest Indian
as Burt Munro
A Tribute To Ismail Merchant
as Self (archive footage)
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
Alexander
as Old Ptolemy
The Human Stain
as Coleman Silk
Bad Company
as Oakes
Red Dragon
as Hannibal Lecter
Hearts in Atlantis
as Ted Brautigan
Hannibal
as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
2001
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
as Self
Unmasking Zorro
as Self
Mission: Impossible II
as Mission Commander Swanbeck (uncredited)
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
as Narrator (voice)
Instinct
as Dr. Ethan Powell
Titus
as Titus Andronicus
Siegfried & Roy: The Magic Box
as Narrator
Return Journey
Director
Meet Joe Black
as William Parrish
The Mask of Zorro
as Don Diego de la Vega / Zorro
Junket Whore
as Self
Amistad
as John Quincy Adams
The Edge
as Charles Morse
The Lost Children of Berlin
as Narrator
Surviving Picasso
as Pablo Picasso
August
as Ieuan Davies, Director, Original Music Composer
Nixon
as Richard Nixon
The Road to Wellville
as Dr. John Harvey Kellogg
Legends of the Fall
as Col. William Ludlow
The Remains of the Day
as James Stevens
Shadowlands
as C. S. 'Jack' Lewis
The Trial
as The Priest
The Innocent
as Glass
Chaplin
as George Hayden
Howards End
as Henry J. Wilcox
Freejack
as Ian McCandless
Spotswood
as Errol Wallace
Earth and the American Dream
as Reader (voice)
Bram Stoker's Dracula
as Professor Abraham Van Helsing
The Silence of the Lambs
as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
One Man’s War
as Joel
Desperate Hours
as Tim Cornell
A Chorus of Disapproval
as Dafydd Ap Llewellyn
Faroe Islands
as (voice)
Heartland
as Jack
Across the Lake
as Donald Campbell
The Tenth Man
as Jean Louis Cheval
The Dawning
as Cassius / Angus Barrie
84 Charing Cross Road
as Frank P. Doel
Blunt
as Guy Burgess
The Good Father
as Bill Hooper
Guilty Conscience
as Arthur Jamison
The Bounty
as Lieutenant William Bligh
Arch of Triumph
as Dr. Ravic
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Quasimodo
Little Eyolf
as Alfred Allmers
The Bunker
as Adolf Hitler
Othello
as Othello
The Elephant Man
as Frederick Treves
A Change of Seasons
as Adam Evans
Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure
as Captain Jones
Magic
as Corky Withers / Fats (voice)
International Velvet
as Captain Johnson
A Bridge Too Far
as Lt. Col. John D. Frost
Audrey Rose
as Elliot Hoover
Victory at Entebbe
as Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
as Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Dark Victory
as Dr. Michael Grant
All Creatures Great and Small
as Siegfried Farnon
Juggernaut
as Supt. John McCleod
The Girl from Petrovka
as Kostya
The Arcata Promise
as Theo Gunge
The Childhood Friend
as Alexander Tashkov
A Doll's House
as Torvald Helmer
Young Winston
as David Llyod George
Poet Game
as Hugh Saunders
When Eight Bells Toll
as Philip Calvert
The Looking Glass War
as John Avery
The Three Sisters
as Andrey
The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens
as Charles Dickens
Hamlet
as Claudius
The Lion in Winter
as Richard
Red, White, and Zero
as Brechtian
The White Bus
as Brechtian