Anthony Hopkins

Also Known As: Philip Anthony Hopkins, 앤서니 홉킨스, Σερ Φίλιπ Άντονι Χόπκινς, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Ентоні Хопкінс, آنتونی هاپکینز

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Anthony Hopkins, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Department: Acting

Place of Birth: Margam, Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales, UK

Birthday: December 31, 1937

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Gender: Male

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Known For:

The Silence of the Lambs
Meet Joe Black
Mission: Impossible II
The Remains of the Day
Zero Contact
Thor
All the King's Men
Beowulf
Bad Company
Alexander
The Elephant Man
The Bounty
Bobby
Chaplin
Shadowlands
The Road to Wellville
The Human Stain
Nixon
Legends of the Fall
Locked
A Bridge Too Far
Victory at Entebbe
Hearts in Atlantis
The Son
Fracture
Armageddon Time
The Wolfman
Amistad
Desperate Hours
Howards End
Instinct
The Edge
Red Dragon
Freejack
Hannibal
Proof
The Mask of Zorro
Titus
Magic
Shortcut to Happiness
The World's Fastest Indian
The Bunker
Bare Knuckles
Across the Lake
International Velvet
Juggernaut
Surviving Picasso
A Doll's House
Hamlet
The City of Your Final Destination
A Change of Seasons
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
84 Charing Cross Road
The Girl from Petrovka
The Arcata Promise
When Eight Bells Toll
The Looking Glass War
The Good Father
Spotswood
Guilty Conscience
Young Winston
The Rite
Audrey Rose
Slipstream
The Lion in Winter
The Trial
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt
The Third Rule
The Innocent
Thor: The Dark World
Noah
The White Bus
360
The Three Sisters
Uncle Vanya
The Tenth Man
Little Eyolf
Arch of Triumph
Mussolini and I
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
Hitchcock
A Chorus of Disapproval
RED 2
Othello
August
The Dawning
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Parkinson at 50
One Man’s War
Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver
Kidnapping Mr. Heineken
Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends
A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'
Nothing Like a Dame
A Tribute To Ismail Merchant
Faroe Islands
Freud's Last Session
Collide
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
Untitled Anthony Hopkins Documentary
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
Solace
Eyes in the Trees
Blackway
Sly
Spielberg
Dark Victory
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Mary
The Dresser
Creating a Universe - The Making of Rebel Moon
Misconduct
Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure
The King of Covent Garden
The Middle-of-the-Road Roadshow for All the Family
Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man. The Myth. The Movies.
Bruno Penguin and the Staten Island Princess
Red, White, and Zero
Thor: Ragnarok
Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Junket Whore
Hannibal Lecter, l'icône du mal par excellence
Transformers: The Last Knight
Little Secret
Poet Game
Love & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day'
Thor: From Asgard to Earth
All Creatures Great and Small
Siegfried & Roy: The Magic Box
Blunt
King Lear
The Two Popes
Hearts and Flowers
Thor: Assembling the Troupe
Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips
The Father
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
Earth and the American Dream
Where Are You
Bram Stoker's Dracula
The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Heartland
Love, Antosha
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
Cus & Mike
The Childhood Friend
The Lost Children of Berlin
The True Story of Hannibal
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
One Life
Elyse
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
Blind Loyalty, Hollow Honor: England's Fatal Flaw
The Remains of the Day: The Filmmaker's Journey
The Virtuoso
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs
Maserati: The Brothers
The Housekeeper
Wife & Dog
A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf
The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens
Unmasking Zorro