Anthony Hopkins
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- December 31, 1937
- Birthplace
- Margam, Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales, UK
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.
Filmography
- Twenty-Seven
Twenty-Seven TBA
Actor
- 2048
2048 TBA
as Bryant
The Species TBA
as Charles Darwin
- A Visit to Grandpa’s
A Visit to Grandpa’s TBA
as Grandpa
- A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf
A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf TBA
as Hrothgar
- The Housekeeper
The Housekeeper TBA
as Lord Grenville-Whithers
- Cus & Mike
Cus & Mike TBA
as Cus D’Amato
- Bruno Penguin and the Staten Island Princess
Bruno Penguin and the Staten Island Princess TBA
as Ben Windsor
- The King of Covent Garden
The King of Covent Garden TBA
as Georg Friedrich Händel
- Eyes in the Trees
Eyes in the Trees TBA
as Dr. Addis
- Untitled Anthony Hopkins Documentary
Untitled Anthony Hopkins Documentary TBA
as Self
- Wife & Dog
Wife & Dog 2027
Actor
Maserati: The Brothers 2026
as Luca Antonelli
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies 2025
as Self (archive footage)
Locked 2025
as William
Mary 2024
as King Herod
Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver 2024
as Jimmy (voice)
Creating a Universe - The Making of Rebel Moon 2024
as Self
Freud's Last Session 2023
as Sigmund Freud
One Life 2023
as Nicholas Winton
Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire 2023
as Jimmy (voice)
Sly 2023
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba 2022
as Self
The Son 2022
as Anthony
Armageddon Time 2022
as Aaron Rabinowitz
Where Are You 2022
as Thomas
Zero Contact 2022
as Finley Hart
Parkinson at 50 2021
as Self (archive footage)
The Virtuoso 2021
as The Mentor
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony 2021
as Self (archive footage)
The Father 2020
as Anthony
Elyse 2020
as Dr. Philip Lewis, Music, Producer
The Two Popes 2019
as Joseph Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI
Love, Antosha 2019
as Self (voice)
King Lear 2018
as Lear
Nothing Like a Dame 2018
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Getting in Touch with your Inner Thor
Getting in Touch with your Inner Thor 2018
as Self
Mary and the Seven Dwarfs 2017
Original Music Composer
Thor: Ragnarok 2017
as Odin
Spielberg 2017
as John Quincy Adams (archive footage) (uncredited)
Transformers: The Last Knight 2017
as Sir Edmund Burton
Collide 2016
as Hagen Kahl
Misconduct 2016
as Arthur Denning
The Dresser 2015
as Sir
Blackway 2015
as Lester, Producer
Solace 2015
as John Clancy
Kidnapping Mr. Heineken 2015
as Freddy Heineken
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film 2014
as Self
Noah 2014
as Methuselah
Thor: The Dark World 2013
as Odin
Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips 2013
as Self / Ieuan Davies
RED 2 2013
as Bailey
Hitchcock 2012
as Alfred Hitchcock
360 2012
as John
Thor: From Asgard to Earth 2011
as Self
Thor 2011
as Odin
The Rite 2011
as Father Lucas Trevant
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger 2010
as Alfie
Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs 2010
as Self
The Third Rule 2010
as Fabian Hogarth
The Wolfman 2010
as Sir John Talbot
Hannibal Lecter, l'icône du mal par excellence 2010
as Self
Bare Knuckles 2010
as Xavier Jonas (uncredited)
The City of Your Final Destination 2009
as Adam Gund
Dreaming Slipstream Dream 2008
as Self
Beowulf 2007
as Hrothgar (Voice)
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' 2007
as Self (archive footage)
Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends 2007
as Self
Shortcut to Happiness 2007
as Daniel Webster
Fracture 2007
as Ted Crawford
Slipstream 2007
as Felix Bonhoeffer, Writer, Director, Original Music Composer
All the King's Men 2006
as Judge Irwin
Bobby 2006
as John Casey, Executive Producer
A Tribute To Ismail Merchant 2005
as Self (archive footage)
The World's Fastest Indian 2005
as Burt Munro
Proof 2005
as Robert Llewellyn
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood 2005
as Self (archive footage)
- The True Story of Hannibal
The True Story of Hannibal 2005
as Self
Alexander 2004
as Old Ptolemy
The Human Stain 2003
as Coleman Silk
A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon' 2003
as Self
Red Dragon 2002
as Hannibal Lecter
Bad Company 2002
as Oakes
Love & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day' 2001
as Self
Hearts in Atlantis 2001
as Ted Brautigan
Unmasking Zorro 2001
as Self
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal 2001
as Self
Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs' 2001
as Self
- Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul 2001
as Self
Hannibal 2001
as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
The Remains of the Day: The Filmmaker's Journey 2001
as Self
Blind Loyalty, Hollow Honor: England's Fatal Flaw 2001
as Self
The Many Faces of Zorro 2000
as Self
How the Grinch Stole Christmas 2000
as Narrator (voice)
Mission: Impossible II 2000
as Mission Commander Swanbeck (uncredited)
Titus 1999
as Titus Andronicus
Return Journey 1999
Director
Siegfried & Roy: The Magic Box 1999
as Narrator
- Little Secret
Little Secret 1999
as Narrator
Instinct 1999
as Dr. Ethan Powell
Meet Joe Black 1998
as William Parrish
Junket Whore 1998
as Self
The Mask of Zorro 1998
as Don Diego de la Vega / Zorro
Amistad 1997
as John Quincy Adams
The Edge 1997
as Charles Morse
The Lost Children of Berlin 1997
as Narrator
Surviving Picasso 1996
as Pablo Picasso
August 1996
as Ieuan Davies, Director, Original Music Composer
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels 1996
as Self
Nixon 1995
as Richard Nixon
Legends of the Fall 1994
as Col. William Ludlow
The Road to Wellville 1994
as Dr. John Harvey Kellogg
Marlon Brando: The Wild One 1994
as Self
Shadowlands 1993
as C. S. 'Jack' Lewis
The Remains of the Day 1993
as James Stevens
The Innocent 1993
as Glass
The Trial 1993
as The Priest
Chaplin 1992
as George Hayden
Bram Stoker's Dracula 1992
as Professor Abraham Van Helsing
Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man, The Myth, The Movies 1992
as Self
Earth and the American Dream 1992
as Reader (voice)
Howards End 1992
as Henry J. Wilcox
Spotswood 1992
as Errol Wallace
Freejack 1992
as Ian McCandless
The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs' 1991
as Self
One Man’s War 1991
as Joel
The Silence of the Lambs 1991
as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
Desperate Hours 1990
as Tim Cornell
A Chorus of Disapproval 1989
as Dafydd Ap Llewellyn
Heartland 1989
as Jack
Faroe Islands 1989
as (voice)
The Tenth Man 1988
as Jean Louis Cheval
Across the Lake 1988
as Donald Campbell
The Dawning 1988
as Cassius / Angus Barrie
84 Charing Cross Road 1987
as Frank P. Doel
Blunt 1987
as Guy Burgess
The Good Father 1985
as Bill Hooper
Guilty Conscience 1985
as Arthur Jamison
Arch of Triumph 1984
as Dr. Ravic
The Bounty 1984
as Lieutenant William Bligh
Little Eyolf 1982
as Alfred Allmers
The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1982
as Quasimodo
Othello 1981
as Othello
The Bunker 1981
as Adolf Hitler
A Change of Seasons 1980
as Adam Evans
The Elephant Man 1980
as Frederick Treves
Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure 1979
as Captain Jones
Magic 1978
as Corky Withers / Fats (voice)
International Velvet 1978
as Captain Johnson
A Bridge Too Far 1977
as Lt. Col. John D. Frost
Audrey Rose 1977
as Elliot Hoover
Victory at Entebbe 1976
as Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case 1976
as Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Dark Victory 1976
as Dr. Michael Grant
All Creatures Great and Small 1975
as Siegfried Farnon
The Girl from Petrovka 1974
as Kostya
Juggernaut 1974
as Supt. John McCleod
The Arcata Promise 1974
as Theo Gunge
The Childhood Friend 1974
as Alexander Tashkov
The Middle-of-the-Road Roadshow for All the Family 1973
as Hi
A Doll's House 1973
as Torvald Helmer
Young Winston 1972
as David Llyod George
Poet Game 1972
as Hugh Saunders
When Eight Bells Toll 1971
as Philip Calvert
Hearts and Flowers 1970
as Bob
- Uncle Vanya
Uncle Vanya 1970
as Astrov
The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens 1970
as Charles Dickens
The Three Sisters 1970
as Andrey
The Looking Glass War 1970
as John Avery
Hamlet 1969
as Claudius
Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt 1969
as Wat Tyler
The Lion in Winter 1968
as Richard
Red, White, and Zero 1968
as Brechtian
The White Bus 1967
as Brechtian
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