
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

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

60 Minutes

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Golden Globe Awards

The Daily Show

Today

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Celebrities Uncensored

The Edwardians

Mythic Quest

Parkinson

Loki

Marvel Studios Legends

Screen Actors Guild Awards

People's Choice Awards

Thor: Love and Thunder

How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Mission: Impossible II

Nothing Like a Dame

Parkinson at 50

Tony Awards

Creating a Universe - The Making of Rebel Moon

BBC Play of the Month

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

Thor: The Dark World

The Son

Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film

Armageddon Time

360

Transformers: The Last Knight

Noah

Thor

RED 2

Bram Stoker's Dracula

Howards End

Beowulf

Collide

The Mask of Zorro

Legends of the Fall

The Silence of the Lambs

The Dresser

Red Dragon

Meet Joe Black

Locked

The Bounty

The Two Popes

Misconduct

A Doll's House

Blunt

The Trial

The Edge

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

Nixon

The Human Stain

Uncle Vanya

Little Eyolf

Across the Lake

Othello

The Father

The World's Fastest Indian

War & Peace

Blackway

Fracture

Peter and Paul

Those About to Die

The Virtuoso

Mary

King Lear

The Elephant Man

The Remains of the Day

Hannibal

The Three Sisters

Predators Killing for a Living

Poet Game

Mussolini and I

One Life
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