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Anthony Hopkins

Anthony Hopkins

Actor · b. 1937 · 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.

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  • Movie7.6

    Thor: Ragnarok

    2017 · 22K votes

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    Thor

    2011 · 22K votes

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    Thor: The Dark World

    2013 · 18K votes

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    Meet Joe Black

    1998 · 5.9K votes

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    Bram Stoker's Dracula

    1992 · 5.9K votes

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    Mission: Impossible II

    2000 · 7.8K votes

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    Alexander

    2004 · 3.6K votes

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    Legends of the Fall

    1994 · 2.9K votes

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    The Mask of Zorro

    1998 · 4.4K votes

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    Noah

    2014 · 6.7K votes

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    The Father

    2020 · 3.8K votes

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    RED 2

    2013 · 4.4K votes

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    The Elephant Man

    1980 · 4.1K votes

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    Fracture

    2007 · 4.4K votes

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    The Wolfman

    2010 · 2.2K votes

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    Beowulf

    2007 · 3.2K votes

  • Movie7.8

    One Life

    2023 · 993 votes

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    The Edge

    1997 · 1.4K votes

  • Movie6.2

    Locked

    2025 · 613 votes

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    The View

    1997 · 113 votes

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    The Daily Show

    1996 · 660 votes

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    LIVE with Kelly and Mark

    1988 · 51 votes

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    Golden Globe Awards

    1944 · 20 votes

  • TV8.0

    Westworld

    2016 · 6.4K votes

  • TV5.6

    The Ellen DeGeneres Show

    2003 · 179 votes

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    The Dick Cavett Show

    1968 · 22 votes

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    Play for Today

    1970 · 10 votes

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    Today

    1952 · 32 votes

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    60 Minutes

    1968 · 85 votes

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    BBC Play of the Month

    1965 · 8 votes

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  • TV7.1

    Screen Two

    1985 · 7 votes

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    The Oscars

    1953 · 84 votes

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    Omnibus

    1967 · 9 votes

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    Natural World

    1983 · 31 votes

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  • TV5.1

    Film '72

    1971 · 8 votes

  • TV7.2

    Mythic Quest

    2020 · 474 votes

  • TV7.4

    Marvel Studios Legends

    2021 · 703 votes