Anthony Hopkins
Acting • Born 1937-12-31
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.
Filmography
226 credits
The Silence of the Lambs
Movie • 1991
Dr. Hannibal Lecter
Meet Joe Black
Movie • 1998
William Parrish
Mission: Impossible II
Movie • 2000
Mission Commander Swanbeck (uncredited)
The Remains of the Day
Movie • 1993
James Stevens
Zero Contact
Movie • 2022
Finley Hart
Thor
Movie • 2011
Odin
All the King's Men
Movie • 2006
Judge Irwin
Beowulf
Movie • 2007
Hrothgar
Bad Company
Movie • 2002
Oakes
Alexander
Movie • 2004
Old Ptolemy
The Elephant Man
Movie • 1980
Frederick Treves
The Bounty
Movie • 1984
Lieutenant William Bligh
Bobby
Movie • 2006
John Casey
Chaplin
Movie • 1992
George Hayden
Shadowlands
Movie • 1993
C. S. 'Jack' Lewis
The Road to Wellville
Movie • 1994
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg
The Human Stain
Movie • 2003
Coleman Silk
Nixon
Movie • 1995
Richard Nixon
Legends of the Fall
Movie • 1994
Col. William Ludlow
Locked
Movie • 2025
William
A Bridge Too Far
Movie • 1977
Lt. Col. John D. Frost
Victory at Entebbe
Movie • 1976
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
Hearts in Atlantis
Movie • 2001
Ted Brautigan
The Son
Movie • 2022
Anthony
Fracture
Movie • 2007
Theodore Crawford
Armageddon Time
Movie • 2022
Aaron Rabinowitz
The Wolfman
Movie • 2010
Sir John Talbot
Amistad
Movie • 1997
John Quincy Adams
Desperate Hours
Movie • 1990
Tim Cornell
Howards End
Movie • 1992
Henry J. Wilcox
Instinct
Movie • 1999
Dr. Ethan Powell
The Edge
Movie • 1997
Charles Morse
Red Dragon
Movie • 2002
Hannibal Lecter
Freejack
Movie • 1992
Ian McCandless
Hannibal
Movie • 2001
Dr. Hannibal Lecter
Proof
Movie • 2005
Robert Llewellyn
The Mask of Zorro
Movie • 1998
Don Diego de la Vega / Zorro
Titus
Movie • 1999
Titus Andronicus
Magic
Movie • 1978
Corky Withers/Fats (voice)
Shortcut to Happiness
Movie • 2007
Daniel Webster
The World's Fastest Indian
Movie • 2005
Burt Munro
The Bunker
Movie • 1981
Adolf Hitler
Bare Knuckles
Movie • 2010
Xavier Jonas (uncredited)
Across the Lake
Movie • 1988
Donald Campbell
International Velvet
Movie • 1978
Captain Johnson
Juggernaut
Movie • 1974
Supt. John McCleod
Surviving Picasso
Movie • 1996
Pablo Picasso
A Doll's House
Movie • 1973
Torvald Helmer
Hamlet
Movie • 1969
Claudius
The City of Your Final Destination
Movie • 2009
Adam Gund
A Change of Seasons
Movie • 1980
Adam Evans
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
Movie • 2010
Alfie
84 Charing Cross Road
Movie • 1987
Frank P. Doel
The Girl from Petrovka
Movie • 1974
Kostya
The Arcata Promise
Movie • 1974
Theo Gunge
When Eight Bells Toll
Movie • 1971
Philip Calvert
The Looking Glass War
Movie • 1970
John Avery
The Good Father
Movie • 1985
Bill Hooper
Spotswood
Movie • 1992
Errol Wallace
Guilty Conscience
Movie • 1985
Arthur Jamison
Young Winston
Movie • 1972
David Llyod George
The Rite
Movie • 2011
Father Lucas Trevant
Audrey Rose
Movie • 1977
Elliot Hoover
Slipstream
Movie • 2007
Felix Bonhoeffer
The Lion in Winter
Movie • 1968
Richard
The Trial
Movie • 1993
The Priest
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Movie • 1982
Quasimodo
Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt
Movie • 1969
Wat Tyler
The Third Rule
Movie • 2010
Fabian Hogarth
The Innocent
Movie • 1993
Glass
Thor: The Dark World
Movie • 2013
Odin
Noah
Movie • 2014
Methuselah
The White Bus
Movie • 1967
Brechtian
360
Movie • 2012
John
The Three Sisters
Movie • 1970
Andrey
Uncle Vanya
Movie • 1970
Astrov
The Tenth Man
Movie • 1988
Jean Louis Cheval
Little Eyolf
Movie • 1982
Alfred Allmers
Arch of Triumph
Movie • 1984
Dr. Ravic
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
Hitchcock
Movie • 2012
Alfred Hitchcock
A Chorus of Disapproval
Movie • 1989
Dafydd Ap Llewellyn
RED 2
Movie • 2013
Bailey
Othello
Movie • 1981
Othello
August
Movie • 1996
Ieuan Davies
The Dawning
Movie • 1988
Cassius / Angus Barrie
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Movie • 2022
Self
Parkinson at 50
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
One Man’s War
Movie • 1991
Joel
Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver
Movie • 2024
Jimmy (voice)
Kidnapping Mr. Heineken
Movie • 2015
Freddy Heineken
Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire
Movie • 2023
Jimmy (voice)
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
Movie • 1976
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends
Movie • 2007
Self
A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'
Movie • 2003
Self
Nothing Like a Dame
Movie • 2018
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
A Tribute To Ismail Merchant
Movie • 2005
Self (archive footage)
Faroe Islands
Movie • 1989
(voice)
Freud's Last Session
Movie • 2023
Sigmund Freud
Collide
Movie • 2016
Hagen Kahl
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
Movie • 2001
Self
Untitled Anthony Hopkins Documentary
Movie
Self
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
Movie • 2014
Self
Solace
Movie • 2015
John Clancy
Eyes in the Trees
Movie
Dr. Addis
Blackway
Movie • 2015
Lester
Sly
Movie • 2023
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Spielberg
Movie • 2017
John Quincy Adams (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dark Victory
Movie • 1976
Dr. Michael Grant
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Movie • 2005
Self (archive footage)
Mary
Movie • 2024
King Herod
The Dresser
Movie • 2015
Sir
Creating a Universe - The Making of Rebel Moon
Movie • 2024
Self
Misconduct
Movie • 2016
Arthur Denning
Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure
Movie • 1979
Captain Jones
The King of Covent Garden
Movie
Georg Friedrich Händel
The Middle-of-the-Road Roadshow for All the Family
Movie • 1973
Hi
Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man. The Myth. The Movies.
Movie • 1992
Self
Bruno Penguin and the Staten Island Princess
Movie
Ben Windsor
Red, White, and Zero
Movie • 1968
Brechtian
Thor: Ragnarok
Movie • 2017
Odin
Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Movie • 2001
Self
Junket Whore
Movie • 1998
Self
Hannibal Lecter, l'icône du mal par excellence
Movie • 2010
Self
Transformers: The Last Knight
Movie • 2017
Sir Edmund Burton
Little Secret
Movie • 1999
Narrator
Poet Game
Movie • 1972
Hugh Saunders
Love & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day'
Movie • 2001
Self
Thor: From Asgard to Earth
Movie • 2011
Self
All Creatures Great and Small
Movie • 1975
Siegfried Farnon
Siegfried & Roy: The Magic Box
Movie • 1999
Narrator
Blunt
Movie • 1987
Guy Burgess
King Lear
Movie • 2018
Lear
The Two Popes
Movie • 2019
Joseph Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI
Hearts and Flowers
Movie • 1970
Bob
Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips
Movie • 2013
Self / Ieuan Davies
The Father
Movie • 2020
Anthony
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
Movie • 1994
Self
Earth and the American Dream
Movie • 1992
Reader (voice)
Where Are You
Movie • 2022
Thomas
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Movie • 1992
Professor Abraham Van Helsing
The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Movie • 1991
Self
Heartland
Movie • 1989
Jack
Love, Antosha
Movie • 2019
Self (voice)
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
Movie • 1996
Self
Cus & Mike
Movie
Cus D’Amato
The Childhood Friend
Movie • 1974
Alexander Tashkov
The Lost Children of Berlin
Movie • 1997
Narrator
The True Story of Hannibal
Movie • 2005
Self
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Movie • 2000
Narrator (voice)
One Life
Movie • 2023
Nicholas Winton
Elyse
Movie • 2021
Dr. Philip Lewis
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
Movie • 2007
Self (archive footage)
Blind Loyalty, Hollow Honor: England's Fatal Flaw
Movie • 2001
Self
The Remains of the Day: The Filmmaker's Journey
Movie • 2001
Self
The Virtuoso
Movie • 2021
The Mentor
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
Movie • 2001
Self
Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs
Movie • 2010
Self
Maserati: The Brothers
Movie
Luca Antonelli
The Housekeeper
Movie
Lord Grenville-Whithers
Wife & Dog
Movie • 2026
A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf
Movie
Hrothgar
The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens
Movie • 1970
Charles Dickens
Unmasking Zorro
Movie • 2001
Self
Marvel Studios: Building a Cinematic Universe
Movie • 2012
Self
A Visit to Grandpa’s
Movie
The Many Faces of Zorro
Movie • 2000
Self
Ibelin
Movie
The Species
Movie
Charles Darwin
Inside the Actors Studio
TV • 1994
Self
Department S
TV • 1969
Greg Halliday
The View
TV • 1997
Self
The Daily Show
TV • 1996
Self
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
TV • 1988
Self - Guest
Today
TV • 1952
Self
War & Peace
TV • 1972
Pierre Bezukhov
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
TV • 1992
Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Siegfried
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV • 1993
Self - Guest
Mythic Quest
TV • 2020
Everlight Narrator (voice)
Celebrities Uncensored
TV • 2003
Self
Play for Today
TV • 1970
Alexander Tashkov
Harty
TV • 1983
Self
The Man Outside
TV • 1972
Albert Watts
Natural World
TV • 1983
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA
TV • 1995
Self
Hollywood Wives
TV • 1985
Neil Gray
Predators Killing for a Living
TV • 1997
People's Choice Awards
TV • 1975
Self - Presenter
QB VII
TV • 1974
Adam Kelno
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Andrey
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Edmund Kean
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Alfred Allmers
Marvel Studios Legends
TV • 2021
Odin (archive footage) (uncredited)
Westworld
TV • 2016
Dr. Robert Ford
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV • 2015
Self - Guest
Six Centuries of Verse
TV • 1984
Self - Reader
To Be the Best
TV • 1992
Jack Figg
Peter and Paul
TV • 1981
Paul of Tarsus
A Woman of Substance
TV • 1985
Jack Figg
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Quasimodo
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Jean Louis Chavel
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
TV • 2003
Self
The Man in Room 17
TV • 1965
Dr. Harding
Mussolini and I
TV • 1985
Count Galeazzo Ciano
A Married Man
TV • 1983
John Strickland
Those About to Die
TV • 2024
Emperor Vespasian
The Dick Cavett Show
TV • 1968
Self - Guest
Charlie Rose
TV • 1991
Self
Play for Today
TV • 1970
Bob Goodliffe
People's Choice Awards
TV • 1975
Self - Accepting Award
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Nominee
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient
Parkinson
TV • 1998
Self
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self
60 Minutes
TV • 1968
Self
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
TV • 2014
Self
Baseball
TV • 1994
(voice)
The Ten Commandments
TV • 1971
Steve
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Astrov
Black and Blue
TV • 1973
Hi
Great Expectations
TV • 1989
Abel Magwitch
Screen Two
TV • 1985
The Priest
The Edwardians
TV • 1972
David Lloyd George
The Company of Five
TV • 1968
Richard Mason