Anthony Hopkins
Welsh-American actor and director (born 1937) · United States · Actors · also United Kingdom
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Something wrong?He made a cannibal psychiatrist into high art - sixteen minutes of screen time in The Silence of the Lambs, an Oscar, and a character that never left the culture. Hopkins turned precision and stillness into menace, then spent three decades proving he could do just about anything else.
A life in dates
LockedFilm, William2024“To act is to decieve, and to decieve, one must forget oneself.”In their words2 February 2024Sir Anthony Hopkins Unleashes the Wred Dragon (2 February 2024)2023
One LifeFilm, Nicholas Winton2021European Film Award for Best ActorAward
Marvel Studios LegendsSeries, 2021Odin (archive footage) (uncredited)
The VirtuosoFilm, 2021The Mentor2019
The Two PopesFilm, Joseph Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI2016
WestworldSeries, Dr. Robert Ford2014
NoahFilm, Methuselah2012
HitchcockFilm, Alfred Hitchcock2011“Being an atheist must be like living in a closed cell with no windows. I’d hate to live like that, wouldn’t you?”In their words11 February 2011"Sir Anthony Hopkins: I couldn't be an atheist". (11 February 2011)2010“I don’t know what it is, truthfully, I think part of it is being still and all that. I don’t know. I like to kind of come in at the side door.”In their words11 February 2010Anthony Hopkins on the secret of his spooky success: ‘I like to act like a submarine’ (11 February 2010)
The WolfmanFilm, 2010Sir John Talbot2008BAFTA FellowshipAward2005
The World's Fastest IndianFilm, Burt Munro2003Star on Hollywood Walk of FameAward
The Ellen DeGeneres ShowSeries, 2003
The Human StainFilm, 2003Coleman Silk2001
HannibalFilm, Dr. Hannibal Lecter1997Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting ActorAward
The EdgeFilm, 1997Charles Morse1996
The Daily ShowSeries1993Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best ActorAwardLos Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best ActorAwardSoutheastern Film Critics Association Award for Best ActorAward
The Remains of the DayFilm, 1993James Stevens1992Academy AwardsAward1991BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading RoleAwardChicago Film Critics Association Award for Best ActorAwardNational Board of Review Award for Best Supporting ActorAwardSaturn Award for Best ActorAward
The Silence of the LambsFilm, 1991Dr. Hannibal Lecter1988
LIVE with Kelly and MarkSeries1983
Natural WorldSeries1977
A Bridge Too FarFilm, Lt. Col. John D. Frost1976Primetime Emmy AwardAward1973British Academy Television Award for Best ActorAward1970
Play for TodaySeries, Alexander Tashkov1967
OmnibusSeries1953
The OscarsSeries1944
Golden Globe AwardsSeries1937Born31 December 1937Also in Deutsch
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![Hopkins studied at RADA (the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) in London from 1961 to 1963. In 2005, a new portrait of him featured in their centenary celebrations.[12]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/RADA_sign.jpg/1280px-RADA_sign.jpg)
Hopkins studied at RADA (the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) in London from 1961 to 1963. In 2005, a new portrait of him featured in their centenary celebrations.[12]
Hopkins portrayed Sir Frederick Treves in The Elephant Man (1980).
Isabella Rossellini and Hopkins in Berlin to shoot scenes for The Innocent (1993)
Lecter T-shirt worn by Hopkins in Hannibal on display at the London Film Museum
Hopkins at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival![Panorama of Snowdonia in north Wales which Hopkins described as "one of the most beautiful places in the world and Snowdon is the jewel that lies at its heart. It must be cherished and protected."[83]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Snowdonia_-_panoramio_%2823%29.jpg/1280px-Snowdonia_-_panoramio_%2823%29.jpg)
Panorama of Snowdonia in north Wales which Hopkins described as "one of the most beautiful places in the world and Snowdon is the jewel that lies at its heart. It must be cherished and protected."[83]
Anthony Hopkins Centre at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, CardiffIn their own words 3
, To act is to decieve, and to decieve, one must forget oneself.
Being an atheist must be like living in a closed cell with no windows. I’d hate to live like that, wouldn’t you?
I don’t know what it is, truthfully, I think part of it is being still and all that. I don’t know. I like to kind of come in at the side door.
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LOLocked
RSRebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver
RFRebel Moon - Part One: A Child of FireOLOne Life
TSThe SonTVThe Virtuoso
TFThe FatherTPThe Two Popes
TRThor: Ragnarok
TKTransformers: The Last Knight
SOSolaceNONoah
TWThor: The Dark World
RERED 2HIHitchcock
THThor
TRThe RiteTWThe Wolfman
FRFracture
BEBeowulfTIThe World's Fastest Indian
ALAlexanderTSThe Human Stain
BCBad Company
RDRed Dragon
HAHearts in AtlantisHAHannibal
MIMission: Impossible II
HCHow the Grinch Stole Christmas
MBMeet Joe Black
TZThe Mask of ZorroTEThe Edge
LFLegends of the FallTDThe Remains of the Day
BDBram Stoker's Dracula
CHChaplin
HEHowards EndTLThe Silence of the Lambs
TMThe Elephant ManAFA Bridge Too Far252 credits on file
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MLMarvel Studios Legends
MQMythic QuestWEWestworld
TCThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert
VAVariety Studio: Actors on ActorsTSThe Ellen DeGeneres Show
TVThe ViewTSThe Daily Show
LBLate Night with Conan O'Brien
TLThe Tonight Show with Jay LenoLMLIVE with Kelly and Mark
STScreen TwoNWNatural World
TSThe South Bank ShowPTPlay for Today
TSThe Dick Cavett Show
MI60 MinutesOMOmnibus
BMBBC Play of the Month
TATony AwardsTOThe Oscars
TOTodayGAGolden Globe AwardsAwards
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Born in Wales on 31 December 1937, Hopkins trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and RADA before Laurence Olivier spotted him and brought him into the Royal National Theatre in 1965, where he took on King Lear, Coriolanus, and Macbeth. Early film work - The Lion in Winter in 1968, The Elephant Man in 1980 - built the foundation, but 1991's The Silence of the Lambs made him inescapable: Hannibal Lecter won him his first Academy Award and became a cultural fixture. The next three decades brought four more Oscar nominations andework that ranged from the stiff heartbreak of The Remains of the Day to Dracula, Nixon, and eventually Odin in the Marvel films. In 2020, at 83, he won his second Oscar for playing a man losing his mind in The Father. Knighted in 1993, he's also claimed two Emmys, four BAFTAs, and a career that never narrowed.
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Charlie HunnamAlso in Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire (2023)
Jim CarreyAlso in How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
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