Cast
Anthony Hopkins
Acting
Cast
Anthony Hopkins
Known for
Acting
Born
1937-12-31
From
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.
Thor: Ragnarok
as Odin
Thor
as Odin
Thor: The Dark World
as Odin
Legends of the Fall
as Col. William Ludlow
Transformers: The Last Knight
as Sir Edmund Burton
Meet Joe Black
as William Parrish
Bram Stoker's Dracula
as Professor Abraham Van Helsing
Mission: Impossible II
as Mission Commander Swanbeck (uncredited)
Fracture
as Theodore Crawford
Alexander
as Old Ptolemy
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
as Narrator (voice)
The Mask of Zorro
as Don Diego de la Vega / Zorro
RED 2
as Bailey
Noah
as Methuselah
Locked
as William
Beowulf
as Hrothgar
Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire
as Jimmy (voice)
The Father
as Anthony
The Elephant Man
as Frederick Treves
The Silence of the Lambs
as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
Sly
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver
as Jimmy (voice)
The Wolfman
as Sir John Talbot
Solace
as John Clancy
A Bridge Too Far
as Lt. Col. John D. Frost
The Remains of the Day
as James Stevens
The Rite
as Father Lucas Trevant
Titus
as Titus Andronicus
Hitchcock
as Alfred Hitchcock
Howards End
as Henry J. Wilcox
Nixon
as Richard Nixon
Freejack
as Ian McCandless
Freud's Last Session
as Sigmund Freud
The Edge
as Charles Morse
The Bounty
as Lieutenant William Bligh
The Son
as Anthony
One Life
as Nicholas Winton
Hearts in Atlantis
as Ted Brautigan
Instinct
as Dr. Ethan Powell
The World's Fastest Indian
as Burt Munro
Bobby
as John Casey
The Two Popes
as Joseph Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI
Chaplin
as George Hayden
Bad Company
as Oakes
Wife & Dog
The Virtuoso
as The Mentor
Armageddon Time
as Aaron Rabinowitz
Juggernaut
as Supt. John McCleod
The Innocent
as Glass
All the King's Men
as Judge Irwin
Spielberg
as John Quincy Adams (archive footage) (uncredited)
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
Proof
as Robert Llewellyn
Collide
as Hagen Kahl
Mary
as King Herod
Desperate Hours
as Tim Cornell
The Lion in Winter
as Richard
The Human Stain
as Coleman Silk
Slipstream
as Felix Bonhoeffer
Misconduct
as Arthur Denning
Shadowlands
as C. S. 'Jack' Lewis
Surviving Picasso
as Pablo Picasso
Hannibal
as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
Audrey Rose
as Elliot Hoover
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
as Alfie
King Lear
as Lear
Zero Contact
as Finley Hart
The Road to Wellville
as Dr. John Harvey Kellogg
Bare Knuckles
as Xavier Jonas (uncredited)
Blackway
as Lester
The Tenth Man
as Jean Louis Cheval
84 Charing Cross Road
as Frank P. Doel
The Housekeeper
as Lord Grenville-Whithers
Shortcut to Happiness
as Daniel Webster
Love, Antosha
as Self (voice)
360
as John
Red Dragon
as Hannibal Lecter
Magic
as Corky Withers/Fats (voice)
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
as Self
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
as Self (archive footage)
Kidnapping Mr. Heineken
as Freddy Heineken
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
as Self
When Eight Bells Toll
as Philip Calvert
Young Winston
as David Llyod George
Heartland
as Jack
Spotswood
as Errol Wallace
The City of Your Final Destination
as Adam Gund
Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man, The Myth, The Movies
as Self
All Creatures Great and Small
as Siegfried Farnon
Unmasking Zorro
as Self
The Dresser
as Sir
Junket Whore
as Self
A Change of Seasons
as Adam Evans
The Bunker
as Adolf Hitler
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
as Self (archive footage)
Amistad
as John Quincy Adams
The Trial
as The Priest
Creating a Universe - The Making of Rebel Moon
as Self
Guilty Conscience
as Arthur Jamison
Nothing Like a Dame
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Quasimodo
Parkinson at 50
as Self (archive footage)
Arch of Triumph
as Dr. Ravic
Earth and the American Dream
as Reader (voice)
Victory at Entebbe
as Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
Othello
as Othello
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
as Self
The Looking Glass War
as John Avery
Where Are You
as Thomas
Love & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day'
as Self
Marvel Studios: Building a Cinematic Universe
as Self
Maserati: The Brothers
as Luca Antonelli
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
as Self
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
as Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Elyse
as Dr. Philip Lewis
International Velvet
as Captain Johnson
Blunt
as Guy Burgess
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
as Self
Dark Victory
as Dr. Michael Grant
Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure
as Captain Jones
Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
as Self
The Good Father
as Bill Hooper
A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'
as Self
Thor: From Asgard to Earth
as Self
A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf
as Hrothgar
One Man’s War
as Joel
Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends
as Self
The Remains of the Day: The Filmmaker's Journey
as Self
Bruno Penguin and the Staten Island Princess
as Ben Windsor
The Girl from Petrovka
as Kostya
Faroe Islands
as (voice)
Red, White, and Zero
as Brechtian
The Arcata Promise
as Theo Gunge
The Dawning
as Cassius / Angus Barrie
A Chorus of Disapproval
as Dafydd Ap Llewellyn
Siegfried & Roy: The Magic Box
as Narrator
Hannibal Lecter, l'icône du mal par excellence
as Self
August
as Ieuan Davies
The True Story of Hannibal
as Self
Blind Loyalty, Hollow Honor: England's Fatal Flaw
as Self
Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips
as Self / Ieuan Davies
Hearts and Flowers
as Bob
A Visit to Grandpa’s
Little Eyolf
as Alfred Allmers
Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt
as Wat Tyler
A Doll's House
as Torvald Helmer
Hamlet
as Claudius
Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs
as Self
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
as Self
Eyes in the Trees
as Dr. Addis
Across the Lake
as Donald Campbell
The Three Sisters
as Andrey
A Tribute To Ismail Merchant
as Self (archive footage)
The Middle-of-the-Road Roadshow for All the Family
as Hi
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
as Self - (archive footage)
Poet Game
as Hugh Saunders
The Third Rule
as Fabian Hogarth
The Many Faces of Zorro
as Self
The Species
as Charles Darwin
The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
as Self
Uncle Vanya
as Astrov
The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens
as Charles Dickens
Little Secret
as Narrator
The White Bus
as Brechtian
The Childhood Friend
as Alexander Tashkov
Untitled Anthony Hopkins Documentary
as Self
Cus & Mike
as Cus D’Amato
The Lost Children of Berlin
as Narrator
The King of Covent Garden
as Georg Friedrich Händel