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Anthony Hopkins

Anthony Hopkins

Birthday: 1937-12-31 | Place of Birth: Margam, Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales, UK

Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins CBE (born 31 December 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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
Armageddon Time

as    Aaron Rabinowitz

2022
Zero Contact

as    Finley Hart

2022
Where Are You

as    Thomas Yorke

2021
The Father

as    Anthony

2021
The Virtuoso

as    The Mentor

2020
Elyse

as    Dr. Philip Lewis

2019
The Two Popes

as    Joseph Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI

2018
King Lear

as    Lear

2017
Collide

as    Hagen Kahl

2017
Thor: Ragnarok

as    Odin

2017
Transformers: The Last Knight

as    Sir Edmund Burton

2016
Misconduct

as    Arthur Denning

2016
Solace

as    John Clancy

2015
Kidnapping Mr. Heineken

as    Freddy Heineken

2015
Blackway

as    Lester

2015
The Dresser

as    Sir

2014
Noah

as    Methuselah

2013
RED 2

as    Bailey

2013
Thor: The Dark World

as    Odin

2012
Hitchcock

as    Alfred Hitchcock

2012
360

as    John

2011
The Rite

as    Father Lucas Trevant

2011
Thor

as    Odin

2010
2010
The Wolfman

as    Sir John Talbot

2009
2007
Beowulf

as    Hrothgar