Anthony Hopkins
138 movies · 33 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Dec 31, 1937 (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.
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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
Anthony Hopkins: movies and TV shows
Acting (169)
- Upcoming Maserati: The Brothers
as Luca Antonelli
- Upcoming
- Upcoming Eyes in the Trees
as Dr. Addis
- Upcoming The King of Covent Garden
as Georg Friedrich Händel
- Upcoming Bruno Penguin and the Staten Island Princess
as Ben Windsor
- Upcoming Cus & Mike
as Cus D’Amato
- Upcoming The Housekeeper
as Lord Grenville-Whithers
- Upcoming A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf
as Hrothgar
- Upcoming A Visit to Grandpa’s
as Grandpa
- Upcoming The Species
as Charles Darwin
- Upcoming 2048
as Bryant
- 2025 Locked
as William
- 2024 Mary
as King Herod
- 2024
- 2024 Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver
as Jimmy (voice)
- 2023 Freud's Last Session
as Sigmund Freud
- 2023 One Life
as Nicholas Winton
- 2023 Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire
as Jimmy (voice)
- 2022 The Son
as Anthony
- 2022 Armageddon Time
as Aaron Rabinowitz
- 2022 Where Are You
as Thomas
- 2022 Zero Contact
as Finley Hart
- 2021 The Virtuoso
as The Mentor
- 2021
- 2020 The Father
as Anthony
- 2020 Elyse
as Dr. Philip Lewis
- 2020
- 2019 The Two Popes
as Joseph Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI
- 2018 King Lear
as Lear
- 2017 Thor: Ragnarok
as Odin
- 2017 Spielberg
as John Quincy Adams (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2017 Transformers: The Last Knight
as Sir Edmund Burton
- 2016
- 2016 Collide
as Hagen Kahl
- 2016 Misconduct
as Arthur Denning
- 2015 The Dresser
as Sir
- 2015 Blackway
as Lester
- 2015 Solace
as John Clancy
- 2015 Kidnapping Mr. Heineken
as Freddy Heineken
- 2014 Noah
as Methuselah
- 2013 Thor: The Dark World
as Odin
- 2013 RED 2
as Bailey
- 2012 Hitchcock
as Alfred Hitchcock
- 2012 360
as John
- 2011 Thor
as Odin
- 2011 The Rite
as Father Lucas Trevant
- 2010 You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
as Alfie
- 2010 The Third Rule
as Fabian Hogarth
- 2010 The Wolfman
as Sir John Talbot
- 2010 Bare Knuckles
as Xavier Jonas (uncredited)
- 2009 The City of Your Final Destination
as Adam Gund
- 2007 Beowulf
as Hrothgar (Voice)
- 2007 Shortcut to Happiness
as Daniel Webster
- 2007 Fracture
as Ted Crawford
- 2007 Slipstream
as Felix Bonhoeffer
- 2006 All the King's Men
as Judge Irwin
- 2006 Bobby
as John Casey
- 2005 The World's Fastest Indian
as Burt Munro
- 2005 Proof
as Robert Llewellyn
- 2004 Alexander
as Old Ptolemy
- 2003 The Human Stain
as Coleman Silk
- 2002 Red Dragon
as Hannibal Lecter
- 2002 Bad Company
as Oakes
- 2001 Hearts in Atlantis
as Ted Brautigan
- 2001 Hannibal
as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
- 2000 How the Grinch Stole Christmas
as Narrator (voice)
- 2000 Mission: Impossible II
as Mission Commander Swanbeck (uncredited)
- 1999 Titus
as Titus Andronicus
- 1999 Siegfried & Roy: The Magic Box
as Narrator
- 1999 Little Secret
as Narrator
- 1999 Instinct
as Dr. Ethan Powell
- 1998 Meet Joe Black
as William Parrish
- 1998 The Mask of Zorro
as Don Diego de la Vega / Zorro
- 1997 Amistad
as John Quincy Adams
- 1997 The Edge
as Charles Morse
- 1997
- 1997 The Lost Children of Berlin
as Narrator
- 1996 Surviving Picasso
as Pablo Picasso
- 1996 August
as Ieuan Davies
- 1995 Nixon
as Richard Nixon
- 1994 Legends of the Fall
as Col. William Ludlow
- 1994 The Road to Wellville
as Dr. John Harvey Kellogg
- 1994
- 1993 Shadowlands
as C. S. 'Jack' Lewis
- 1993 The Remains of the Day
as James Stevens
- 1993 The Innocent
as Glass
- 1993 The Trial
as The Priest
- 1992 Chaplin
as George Hayden
- 1992 Bram Stoker's Dracula
as Professor Abraham Van Helsing
- 1992 Earth and the American Dream
as Reader (voice)
- 1992
- 1992 Howards End
as Henry J. Wilcox
- 1992 Spotswood
as Errol Wallace
- 1992 Freejack
as Ian McCandless
- 1991 One Man’s War
as Joel
- 1991 The Silence of the Lambs
as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
- 1990 Desperate Hours
as Tim Cornell
- 1989 A Chorus of Disapproval
as Dafydd Ap Llewellyn
- 1989
- 1989 Heartland
as Jack
- 1989 Faroe Islands
as (voice)
- 1988 The Tenth Man
as Jean Louis Cheval
- 1988 Across the Lake
as Donald Campbell
- 1988 The Dawning
as Cassius / Angus Barrie
- 1988
- 1987 84 Charing Cross Road
as Frank P. Doel
- 1987 Blunt
as Guy Burgess
- 1986
- 1985 The Good Father
as Bill Hooper
- 1985
- 1985 Guilty Conscience
as Arthur Jamison
- 1985
- 1985
- 1985
- 1984 Arch of Triumph
as Dr. Ravic
- 1984 The Bounty
as Lieutenant William Bligh
- 1983
- 1983
- 1982 Little Eyolf
as Alfred Allmers
- 1982 The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Quasimodo
- 1981 Othello
as Othello
- 1981 The Bunker
as Adolf Hitler
- 1981
- 1980 A Change of Seasons
as Adam Evans
- 1980 The Elephant Man
as Frederick Treves
- 1979 Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure
as Captain Jones
- 1978 Magic
as Corky Withers / Fats (voice)
- 1978 International Velvet
as Captain Johnson
- 1977 A Bridge Too Far
as Lt. Col. John D. Frost
- 1977 Audrey Rose
as Elliot Hoover
- 1977
- 1976 Victory at Entebbe
as Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
- 1976 The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
as Bruno Richard Hauptmann
- 1976 Dark Victory
as Dr. Michael Grant
- 1975 All Creatures Great and Small
as Siegfried Farnon
- 1974 The Girl from Petrovka
as Kostya
- 1974 Juggernaut
as Supt. John McCleod
- 1974 The Arcata Promise
as Theo Gunge
- 1974 The Childhood Friend
as Alexander Tashkov
- 1974
- 1973
- 1973
- 1973 A Doll's House
as Torvald Helmer
- 1972
- 1972
- 1972 Young Winston
as David Llyod George
- 1972
- 1972 Poet Game
as Hugh Saunders
- 1971 When Eight Bells Toll
as Philip Calvert
- 1971
- 1970 Hearts and Flowers
as Bob
- 1970 Uncle Vanya
as Astrov
- 1970
- 1970
- 1970 The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens
as Charles Dickens
- 1970 The Three Sisters
as Andrey
- 1970 The Looking Glass War
as John Avery
- 1969 Hamlet
as Claudius
- 1969
- 1969 Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt
as Wat Tyler
- 1968
- 1968 The Lion in Winter
as Richard
- 1968 Red, White, and Zero
as Brechtian
- 1967 The White Bus
as Brechtian
- 1967
- 1965
- 1965
- 1960
- 1951
Behind the camera (7)
- 2020 Elyse
Music, Producer
- 2017 Mary and the Seven Dwarfs
Original Music Composer
- 2015 Blackway
Producer
- 2007 Slipstream
Writer, Director, Original Music Composer
- 2006 Bobby
Executive Producer
- 1999 Return Journey
Director
- 1996 August
Director, Original Music Composer
Talk shows and appearances (61)
- Upcoming
- 2025
- 2024
- 2023
- 2022
- 2022 Welcome to Wrexham
1 episode
- 2021
- 2021
- 2019
- 2018
- 2018
- 2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2 episodes
- 2014 Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
1 episode
- 2014
- 2013
- 2011
- 2010
- 2010
- 2008
- 2007
- 2007
- 2005
- 2005
- 2005
- 2004 Parkinson
1 episode
- 2003 The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2 episodes
- 2003 Celebrities Uncensored
1 episode
- 2003
- 2001
- 2001
- 2001
- 2001
- 2001
- 2001
- 2001
- 2000
- 1998
- 1998 Parkinson
1 episode
- 1997 The View
1 episode
- 1996 The Daily Show
2 episodes
- 1996
- 1995 The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA
1 episode
- 1994 Inside the Actors Studio
2 episodes
- 1994
- 1993 Late Night with Conan O'Brien
3 episodes
- 1992
- 1992 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
2 episodes
- 1991 Charlie Rose
1 episode
- 1991
- 1988 LIVE with Kelly and Mark
4 episodes
- 1984 Six Centuries of Verse
1 episode
- 1983 Harty
1 episode
- 1978 The South Bank Show
2 episodes
- 1975 People's Choice Awards
2 episodes
- 1971 Film '72
7 episodes
- 1968 60 Minutes
1 episode
- 1968 The Dick Cavett Show
1 episode
- 1956 Tony Awards
2 episodes
- 1953 The Oscars
8 episodes
- 1952 Today
1 episode
- 1944 Golden Globe Awards
4 episodes