
Anthony Hopkins
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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.
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Known For

Hallmark Hall of Fame

The Oscars

Tony Awards

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Golden Globe Awards

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

60 Minutes

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

The Daily Show

Today

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Celebrities Uncensored

The Edwardians

People's Choice Awards

Mythic Quest

Parkinson

Marvel Studios Legends

Loki

Screen Actors Guild Awards

Thor: Love and Thunder

How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Mission: Impossible II

Nothing Like a Dame

Parkinson at 50

Creating a Universe - The Making of Rebel Moon

Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire

Thor: Ragnarok

Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver

Earth and the American Dream

Westworld

Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul

The Son

Armageddon Time

Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film

Thor: The Dark World

Noah

360

Transformers: The Last Knight

RED 2

Thor

Beowulf

Collide

Bram Stoker's Dracula

Howards End

BBC Play of the Month

The Two Popes

Blunt

The Bounty

The Dresser

Legends of the Fall

The Mask of Zorro

Red Dragon

Misconduct

A Doll's House

Locked

The Silence of the Lambs

The Trial

Meet Joe Black

Peter and Paul

The Three Sisters

King Lear

One Life

Uncle Vanya

Othello

The Father

Fracture

Predators Killing for a Living

The Elephant Man

Nixon

The Virtuoso

War & Peace

The Remains of the Day

Mussolini and I

The Edge

The Human Stain

Mary

Blackway

Poet Game

Across the Lake

Little Eyolf

Those About to Die

Hannibal

The World's Fastest Indian

Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
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