Anthony Hopkins
Known for Acting · 227 credits
- Born
- 1937-12-31 (age 88)
- Place of birth
- Margam, Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales, UK
- Also known as
- Philip Anthony Hopkins · Sir Anthony Hopkins
Biography
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
TV Shows (57)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self - Guest
Westworld
2016
as Dr. Robert Ford
The Daily Show
1996
as Self
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee / Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient
The View
1997
as Self
Play for Today
1970
as Alexander Tashkov / Bob Goodliffe
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Host / Self - Co-Host
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
as Self - Guest
60 Minutes
1968
as Self
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest
Natural World
1983
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
as Self
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
as Self - Guest
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
as Self
BBC Play of the Month
1965
as Alfred Allmers / Edmund Kean / Andrey / Astrov
Screen Two
1985
as The Priest / Guy Burgess
Today
1952
as Self
Omnibus
1967
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
as Self
Welcome to Wrexham
2022
as Self (archive footage)
People's Choice Awards
1975
as Self - Presenter / Self - Accepting Award
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Film '72
1971
as Self
Parkinson
1998
as Self
Marvel Studios Legends
2021
as Odin (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mythic Quest
2020
as Everlight Narrator (voice)
The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA
1995
as Self
Those About to Die
2024
as Emperor Vespasian
Department S
1969
as Greg Halliday
The Play on One
1988
as Jack
A Woman of Substance
1985
as Jack Figg
Baseball
1994
as (voice)
Charlie Rose
1991
as Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Siegfried / Quasimodo / Jean Louis Chavel
The Ten Commandments
1971
as Steve
The Man in Room 17
1965
as Dr. Harding
War & Peace
1972
as Pierre Bezukhov
Harty
1983
as Self
Black and Blue
1973
as Hi
The Edwardians
1972
as David Lloyd George
Sunday Premiere
1986
as Donald Campbell
Hollywood Wives
1985
as Neil Gray
Peter and Paul
1981
as Paul of Tarsus
The Company of Five
1968
as Richard Mason
Six Centuries of Verse
1984
as Self - Reader
Great Expectations
1989
as Abel Magwitch
A Married Man
1983
as John Strickland
The Man Outside
1972
as Albert Watts
QB VII
1974
as Adam Kelno
To Be the Best
1992
as Jack Figg
Mussolini and I
1985
as Count Galeazzo Ciano
Childhood
1977
as Dando
Predators Killing for a Living
1997
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
as Self
A Matter of Degree
1960
as Stephen
Biography
1970
as Danton
Celebrities Uncensored
2003
as Self
Movies (170)
Thor: Ragnarok
2017
as Odin
Thor
2011
as Odin
Thor: The Dark World
2013
as Odin
Meet Joe Black
1998
as William Parrish
Transformers: The Last Knight
2017
as Sir Edmund Burton
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
2000
as Narrator (voice)
Bram Stoker's Dracula
1992
as Professor Abraham Van Helsing
Mission: Impossible II
2000
as Mission Commander Swanbeck (uncredited)
Legends of the Fall
1994
as Col. William Ludlow
Alexander
2004
as Old Ptolemy
The Mask of Zorro
1998
as Don Diego de la Vega / Zorro
Noah
2014
as Methuselah
Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire
2023
as Jimmy (voice)
Fracture
2007
as Ted Crawford
The Father
2020
as Anthony
The Elephant Man
1980
as Frederick Treves
RED 2
2013
as Bailey
Locked
2025
as William
The Silence of the Lambs
1991
as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
Instinct
1999
as Dr. Ethan Powell
Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver
2024
as Jimmy (voice)
Beowulf
2007
as Hrothgar (Voice)
A Bridge Too Far
1977
as Lt. Col. John D. Frost
The Wolfman
2010
as Sir John Talbot
The Lion in Winter
1968
as Richard
Solace
2015
as John Clancy
The Edge
1997
as Charles Morse
The Son
2022
as Anthony
The World's Fastest Indian
2005
as Burt Munro
Hitchcock
2012
as Alfred Hitchcock
Chaplin
1992
as George Hayden
Freud's Last Session
2023
as Sigmund Freud
Kidnapping Mr. Heineken
2015
as Freddy Heineken
The Remains of the Day
1993
as James Stevens
Howards End
1992
as Henry J. Wilcox
The Rite
2011
as Father Lucas Trevant
Spielberg
2017
as John Quincy Adams (archive footage) (uncredited)
Love, Antosha
2019
as Self (voice)
Juggernaut
1974
as Supt. John McCleod
The Two Popes
2019
as Joseph Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI
Junket Whore
1998
as Self
Collide
2016
as Hagen Kahl
Heartland
1989
as Jack
The Virtuoso
2021
as The Mentor
Bad Company
2002
as Oakes
The Bounty
1984
as Lieutenant William Bligh
The Housekeeper
as Lord Grenville-Whithers
Titus
1999
as Titus Andronicus
Wife & Dog
2027
84 Charing Cross Road
1987
as Frank P. Doel
The Human Stain
2003
as Coleman Silk
The Tenth Man
1988
as Jean Louis Cheval
All the King's Men
2006
as Judge Irwin
King Lear
2018
as Lear
Shortcut to Happiness
2007
as Daniel Webster
Hearts in Atlantis
2001
as Ted Brautigan
Misconduct
2016
as Arthur Denning
Mary
2024
as King Herod
Freejack
1992
as Ian McCandless
Zero Contact
2022
as Finley Hart
360
2012
as John
Nixon
1995
as Richard Nixon
The Species
as Charles Darwin
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
2010
as Alfie
The Road to Wellville
1994
as Dr. John Harvey Kellogg
Shadowlands
1993
as C. S. 'Jack' Lewis
August
1996
as Ieuan Davies
Proof
2005
as Robert Llewellyn
Desperate Hours
1990
as Tim Cornell
Young Winston
1972
as David Llyod George
Blackway
2015
as Lester
Bobby
2006
as John Casey
Magic
1978
as Corky Withers / Fats (voice)
Hannibal
2001
as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005
as Self (archive footage)
Where Are You
2022
as Thomas
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1982
as Quasimodo
Sly
2023
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Slipstream
2007
as Felix Bonhoeffer
Othello
1981
as Othello
Red Dragon
2002
as Hannibal Lecter
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
2021
as Self (archive footage)
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
2025
as Self - (archive footage)
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
1994
as Self
The Looking Glass War
1970
as John Avery
The Girl from Petrovka
1974
as Kostya
One Life
2023
as Nicholas Winton
Earth and the American Dream
1992
as Reader (voice)
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
1996
as Self
The Dresser
2015
as Sir
The Bunker
1981
as Adolf Hitler
The White Bus
1967
as Brechtian
Nothing Like a Dame
2018
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Surviving Picasso
1996
as Pablo Picasso
The Innocent
1993
as Glass
Unmasking Zorro
2001
as Self
When Eight Bells Toll
1971
as Philip Calvert
Armageddon Time
2022
as Aaron Rabinowitz
Maserati: The Brothers
as Luca Antonelli
The Trial
1993
as The Priest
Audrey Rose
1977
as Elliot Hoover
The Arcata Promise
1974
as Theo Gunge
Arch of Triumph
1984
as Dr. Ravic
Marvel Studios: Building a Cinematic Universe
2012
as Self
Guilty Conscience
1985
as Arthur Jamison
Bruno Penguin and the Staten Island Princess
as Ben Windsor
A Chorus of Disapproval
1989
as Dafydd Ap Llewellyn
Creating a Universe - The Making of Rebel Moon
2024
as Self
A Change of Seasons
1980
as Adam Evans
Spotswood
1992
as Errol Wallace
All Creatures Great and Small
1975
as Siegfried Farnon
Eyes in the Trees
as Dr. Addis
Victory at Entebbe
1976
as Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
One Man’s War
1991
as Joel
The City of Your Final Destination
2009
as Adam Gund
Thor: From Asgard to Earth
2011
as Self
The Three Sisters
1970
as Andrey
Parkinson at 50
2021
as Self (archive footage)
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022
as Self
International Velvet
1978
as Captain Johnson
About 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 Fam… With 227 credits spanning from 1944 to 2027, Anthony Hopkins has appeared in 170 films and 57 TV shows.
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- Thor: Ragnarok (2017) — as Odin
- Thor (2011) — as Odin
- Thor: The Dark World (2013) — as Odin
- Meet Joe Black (1998) — as William Parrish
- Transformers: The Last Knight (2017) — as Sir Edmund Burton
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