Anthony Hopkins

Born

December 31, 1937 (87 years old)

Known For

Acting

Place of Birth

Margam, Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales, UK

Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins CBE 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.

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Known For

6.8

How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Locked

William

6.2

2025

Mary

King Herod

6.3

2024

Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver

Jimmy (voice)

6.1

2024

Freud's Last Session

Sigmund Freud

6.7

2023

Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire

Jimmy (voice)

6.3

2023

Sly

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

7.2

2023

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

Self

7.6

2022

The Son

Anthony

6.7

2022

Armageddon Time

Aaron Rabinowitz

6.5

2022

Zero Contact

Finley Hart

4.0

2022

Parkinson at 50

Self (archive footage)

10.0

2021

Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony

Self (archive footage)

4.5

2021

Nothing Like a Dame

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

6.8

2018

Spielberg

John Quincy Adams (archive footage) (uncredited)

7.6

2017

Collide

Hagen Kahl

5.5

2016

The Dresser

Sir

6.2

2015

Blackway

Lester

5.3

2015

Solace

John Clancy

6.4

2015

Kidnapping Mr. Heineken

Freddy Heineken

6.0

2015

Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film

Self

4.8

2014

Noah

Methuselah

5.7

2014

Thor: The Dark World

Odin

6.5

2013

RED 2

Bailey

6.5

2013

Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock

6.6

2012

360

John

5.7

2012

Thor

Odin

6.8

2011

The Rite

Father Lucas Trevant

6.1

2011

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

Alfie

5.9

2010

The Third Rule

Fabian Hogarth

6.0

2010

The Wolfman

Sir John Talbot

5.9

2010

Bare Knuckles

Xavier Jonas (uncredited)

3.3

2010

The City of Your Final Destination

Adam Gund

5.7

2009

Beowulf

Hrothgar

5.9

2007

Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends

Self

4.8

2007

Fracture

Theodore Crawford

7.3

2007

Slipstream

Felix Bonhoeffer

4.9

2007

All the King's Men

Judge Irwin

5.8

2006

Bobby

John Casey

6.4

2006

A Tribute To Ismail Merchant

Self (archive footage)

10.0

2005

The World's Fastest Indian

Burt Munro

7.7

2005

Proof

Robert Llewellyn

6.3

2005

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

Self

10.0

2005

Alexander

Old Ptolemy

5.9

2004

The Human Stain

Coleman Silk

6.0

2003

Shortcut to Happiness

Daniel Webster

5.6

2003

A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'

Self

7.3

2003

Red Dragon

Hannibal Lecter

7.0

2002

Bad Company

Oakes

5.5

2002

Hearts in Atlantis

Ted Brautigan

6.7

2001

Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul

Self

6.0

2001

Hannibal

Dr. Hannibal Lecter

6.8

2001

Mission: Impossible II

Mission Commander Swanbeck (uncredited)

6.1

2000

Titus

Titus Andronicus

6.5

1999

Instinct

Dr. Ethan Powell

6.5

1999

Meet Joe Black

William Parrish

7.4

1998

The Mask of Zorro

Don Diego de la Vega / Zorro

6.6

1998

Amistad

John Quincy Adams

7.0

1997

The Edge

Charles Morse

6.8

1997

Surviving Picasso

Pablo Picasso

5.8

1996

August

Ieuan Davies

4.0

1996

Nixon

Richard Nixon

6.9

1995

Legends of the Fall

Col. William Ludlow

7.4

1994

The Road to Wellville

Dr. John Harvey Kellogg

5.6

1994

Shadowlands

C. S. 'Jack' Lewis

6.9

1993

The Remains of the Day

James Stevens

7.4

1993

The Innocent

Glass

6.1

1993

The Trial

The Priest

5.8

1993

Chaplin

George Hayden

7.4

1992

Howards End

Henry J. Wilcox

7.0

1992

Spotswood

Errol Wallace

5.4

1992

Freejack

Ian McCandless

5.4

1992

One Man’s War

Joel

6.8

1991

The Silence of the Lambs

Dr. Hannibal Lecter

8.3

1991

Desperate Hours

Tim Cornell

5.4

1990

A Chorus of Disapproval

Dafydd Ap Llewellyn

5.2

1989

Faroe Islands

(voice)

0.0

1989

The Tenth Man

Jean Louis Cheval

6.7

1988

Across the Lake

Donald Campbell

5.8

1988

The Dawning

Cassius / Angus Barrie

5.3

1988

84 Charing Cross Road

Frank P. Doel

7.1

1987

The Good Father

Bill Hooper

5.7

1985

Guilty Conscience

Arthur Jamison

6.0

1985

Arch of Triumph

Dr. Ravic

5.0

1984

The Bounty

Lieutenant William Bligh

6.7

1984

Little Eyolf

Alfred Allmers

6.0

1982

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Quasimodo

5.8

1982

Othello

6.2

1981

The Bunker

Adolf Hitler

6.2

1981

A Change of Seasons

Adam Evans

5.6

1980

The Elephant Man

Frederick Treves

8.1

1980

Magic

Corky Withers / Fats (voice)

6.8

1978

International Velvet

Captain Johnson

7.4

1978

A Bridge Too Far

Lt. Col. John D. Frost

7.2

1977

Audrey Rose

Elliot Hoover

5.6

1977

Victory at Entebbe

Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin

5.1

1976

The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case

Bruno Richard Hauptmann

6.4

1976

Dark Victory

Dr. Michael Grant

0.0

1976

The Girl from Petrovka

Kostya

5.2

1974

Juggernaut

Supt. John McCleod

6.2

1974

The Arcata Promise

Theo Gunge

0.0

1974

A Doll's House

Torvald Helmer

5.5

1973

Young Winston

David Llyod George

6.2

1972

When Eight Bells Toll

Philip Calvert

5.7

1971

Brechtian

6.1

1967

Untitled Anthony Hopkins Documentary

Self

0.0

Eyes in the Trees

Dr. Addis

0.0

Maserati: The Brothers

Luca Antonelli

0.0

2025

Creating a Universe - The Making of Rebel Moon

Self

6.0

2024

One Life

Nicholas Winton

7.8

2023

Where Are You

Thomas

1.9

2022

The Virtuoso

The Mentor

5.9

2021

The Father

Anthony

8.1

2020

Elyse

Dr. Philip Lewis

5.4

2020

The Two Popes

Joseph Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI

7.5

2019

Love, Antosha

Self (voice)

7.4

2019

King Lear

Lear

6.0

2018

Thor: Ragnarok

Odin

7.6

2017

Transformers: The Last Knight

Sir Edmund Burton

6.1

2017

Misconduct

Arthur Denning

5.6

2016

Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips

Self / Ieuan Davies

8.3

2013

Thor: From Asgard to Earth

Self

7.0

2011

Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs

Self

7.1

2010

Hannibal Lecter, l'icône du mal par excellence

Self

5.5

2010

The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'

Self (archive footage)

8.0

2007

Breaking the Silence: Picture-in-Picture Commentary

6.8

2000

Siegfried & Roy: The Magic Box

5.0

1979

Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure

Captain Jones

6.5

1979

The King of Covent Garden

Georg Friedrich Händel

0.0

The Middle-of-the-Road Roadshow for All the Family

0.0

1973

Bruno Penguin and the Staten Island Princess

Ben Windsor

0.0

Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels

Self

6.4

1996

Inside the Actors Studio

Self · (2 episodes)

7.5

1994

Bram Stoker's Dracula

Professor Abraham Van Helsing

7.4

1992

Blunt

Guy Burgess

4.8

1987

All Creatures Great and Small

Siegfried Farnon

6.6

1975

The Childhood Friend

Alexander Tashkov

6.0

1974

Poet Game

Hugh Saunders

0.0

1972

Hearts and Flowers

Bob

6.0

1970

Cus & Mike

Cus D’Amato

0.0

The Housekeeper

Lord DeWithers

0.0

Wife & Dog

0.0

A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf

Hrothgar

0.0

Those About to Die

Emperor Vespasian · (10 episodes)

7.5

2024

Marvel Studios Legends

Odin (archive footage) (uncredited) · (3 episodes)

7.4

2021

Mythic Quest

Everlight Narrator (voice) · (1 episode)

7.3

2020

Westworld

Dr. Robert Ford · (20 episodes)

8.0

2016

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Self · (1 episode)

6.4

2015

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

Self · (1 episode)

5.0

2014

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Self · (2 episodes)

5.7

2003

Celebrities Uncensored

Self · (1 episode)

4.0

2003

Parkinson

Self · (1 episode)

0.0

1998

Predators Killing for a Living

(13 episodes)

0.0

1997

The Daily Show

Self · (2 episodes)

6.4

1996

Screen Actors Guild Awards

(1 episode)

6.2

1995

Baseball

(voice) · (3 episodes)

7.3

1994

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Self - Guest · (3 episodes)

7.2

1993

To Be the Best

(2 episodes)

4.5

1992

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Self · (2 episodes)

5.4

1992

Charlie Rose

6.0

1984

Natural World

(2 episodes)

7.1

1983

Harty

Self · (1 episode)

6.0

1983

A Married Man

John Strickland · (4 episodes)

5.7

1983

Peter and Paul

Paul of Tarsus · (2 episodes)

7.0

1981

The BBC Television Shakespeare

Othello · (1 episode)

6.0

1978

People's Choice Awards

6.3

1970

The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens

Charles Dickens

0.0

1970

Department S

Greg Halliday · (1 episode)

4.9

1969

60 Minutes

Self · (1 episode)

6.7

1968

The Dick Cavett Show

Self - Guest · (1 episode)

6.7

1968

BBC Play of the Month

Andrey · (1 episode)

5.0

1965

BBC Play of the Month

Edmund Kean · (1 episode)

5.0

1965

BBC Play of the Month

Alfred Allmers · (1 episode)

5.0

1965

BBC Play of the Month

Astrov · (1 episode)

5.0

1965

The Man in Room 17

Dr. Harding · (1 episode)

5.3

1965

Tony Awards

Self - Host · (1 episode)

5.1

1956

Tony Awards

Self - Co-Host · (1 episode)

5.1

1956

The Oscars

Self · (8 episodes)

7.1

1953

Today

Self · (1 episode)

5.8

1952

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Siegfried · (1 episode)

8.6

1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Quasimodo · (1 episode)

8.6

1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Jean Louis Chavel · (1 episode)

8.6

1951

Golden Globe Awards

Self - Nominee · (2 episodes)

7.2

1944

Golden Globe Awards

Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient · (1 episode)

7.2

1944

Golden Globe Awards

Self - Presenter · (1 episode)

7.2

1944