Anthony Hopkins
Acting
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.
TV Shows(49)
Those About to Die
Emperor Vespasian
2024
Marvel Studios Legends
Odin (archive footage) (uncredited)
2021
Mythic Quest
Everlight Narrator (voice)
2020
Westworld
Dr. Robert Ford
2016
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
2015
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
2014
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self
2003
Celebrities Uncensored
Self
2003
Parkinson
Self
1998
Predators Killing for a Living
1997
The View
Self
1997
The Daily Show
Self
1996
The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA
Self
1995
Baseball
(voice)
1994
Inside the Actors Studio
Self
1994
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
1993
To Be the Best
Jack Figg
1992
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Self
1992
Charlie Rose
Self
1991
Great Expectations
Abel Magwitch
1989
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self - Guest
1988
Mussolini and I
Count Galeazzo Ciano
1985
Hollywood Wives
Neil Gray
1985
Screen Two
The Priest
1985
A Woman of Substance
Jack Figg
1985
Six Centuries of Verse
Self - Reader
1984
Natural World
1983
Harty
Self
1983
A Married Man
John Strickland
1983
Peter and Paul
Paul of Tarsus
1981
People's Choice Awards
Self - Presenter
1975
QB VII
Adam Kelno
1974
Black and Blue
Hi
1973
The Edwardians
David Lloyd George
1972
War & Peace
Pierre Bezukhov
1972
The Man Outside
Albert Watts
1972
The Ten Commandments
Steve
1971
Play for Today
Alexander Tashkov
1970
Department S
Greg Halliday
1969
The Company of Five
Richard Mason
1968
60 Minutes
Self
1968
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
1968
BBC Play of the Month
Alfred Allmers
1965
The Man in Room 17
Dr. Harding
1965
Tony Awards
Self - Host
1956
The Oscars
Self
1953
Today
Self
1952
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Siegfried
1951
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
1944
Movies(169)
Wife & Dog
2026
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
Self - (archive footage)
2025
Locked
William
2025
Mary
King Herod
2024
Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver
Jimmy (voice)
2024
Creating a Universe - The Making of Rebel Moon
Self
2024
Freud's Last Session
Sigmund Freud
2023
One Life
Nicholas Winton
2023
Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire
Jimmy (voice)
2023
Sly
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2023
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Self
2022
The Son
Anthony
2022
Armageddon Time
Aaron Rabinowitz
2022
Where Are You
Thomas
2022
Zero Contact
Finley Hart
2022
Elyse
Dr. Philip Lewis
2021
Parkinson at 50
Self (archive footage)
2021
The Virtuoso
The Mentor
2021
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
Self (archive footage)
2021
The Father
Anthony
2020
The Two Popes
Joseph Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI
2019
Love, Antosha
Self (voice)
2019
King Lear
Lear
2018
Nothing Like a Dame
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2018
Spielberg
John Quincy Adams (archive footage) (uncredited)
2017
Thor: Ragnarok
Odin
2017
Transformers: The Last Knight
Sir Edmund Burton
2017
Collide
Hagen Kahl
2016
Misconduct
Arthur Denning
2016
The Dresser
Sir
2015
Blackway
Lester
2015
Solace
John Clancy
2015
Kidnapping Mr. Heineken
Freddy Heineken
2015
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
Self
2014
Noah
Methuselah
2014
Thor: The Dark World
Odin
2013
Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips
Self / Ieuan Davies
2013
RED 2
Bailey
2013
Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock
2012
Marvel Studios: Building a Cinematic Universe
Self
2012
360
John
2012
Thor: From Asgard to Earth
Self
2011
Thor
Odin
2011
The Rite
Father Lucas Trevant
2011
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
Alfie
2010
Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs
Self
2010
The Third Rule
Fabian Hogarth
2010
The Wolfman
Sir John Talbot
2010
Bare Knuckles
Xavier Jonas (uncredited)
2010
Hannibal Lecter, l'icône du mal par excellence
Self
2010
The City of Your Final Destination
Adam Gund
2009
Beowulf
Hrothgar
2007
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
Self (archive footage)
2007
Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends
Self
2007
Shortcut to Happiness
Daniel Webster
2007
Fracture
Theodore Crawford
2007
Slipstream
Felix Bonhoeffer
2007
All the King's Men
Judge Irwin
2006
Bobby
John Casey
2006
A Tribute To Ismail Merchant
Self (archive footage)
2005
The World's Fastest Indian
Burt Munro
2005
Proof
Robert Llewellyn
2005
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
2005
The True Story of Hannibal
Self
2005
Alexander
Old Ptolemy
2004
The Human Stain
Coleman Silk
2003
A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'
Self
2003
Red Dragon
Hannibal Lecter
2002
Bad Company
Oakes
2002
Love & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day'
Self
2001
Hearts in Atlantis
Ted Brautigan
2001
Unmasking Zorro
Self
2001
Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Self
2001
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
Self
2001
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
Self
2001
Hannibal
Dr. Hannibal Lecter
2001
Blind Loyalty, Hollow Honor: England's Fatal Flaw
Self
2001
The Remains of the Day: The Filmmaker's Journey
Self
2001
The Many Faces of Zorro
Self
2000
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Narrator (voice)
2000
Mission: Impossible II
Mission Commander Swanbeck (uncredited)
2000
Titus
Titus Andronicus
1999
Siegfried & Roy: The Magic Box
Narrator
1999
Little Secret
Narrator
1999
Instinct
Dr. Ethan Powell
1999
Meet Joe Black
William Parrish
1998
Junket Whore
Self
1998
The Mask of Zorro
Don Diego de la Vega / Zorro
1998
Amistad
John Quincy Adams
1997
The Edge
Charles Morse
1997
The Lost Children of Berlin
Narrator
1997
Surviving Picasso
Pablo Picasso
1996
August
Ieuan Davies
1996
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
Self
1996
Nixon
Richard Nixon
1995
Legends of the Fall
Col. William Ludlow
1994
The Road to Wellville
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg
1994
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
Self
1994
Shadowlands
C. S. 'Jack' Lewis
1993
The Remains of the Day
James Stevens
1993
The Innocent
Glass
1993
The Trial
The Priest
1993
Chaplin
George Hayden
1992
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Professor Abraham Van Helsing
1992
Earth and the American Dream
Reader (voice)
1992
Howards End
Henry J. Wilcox
1992
Spotswood
Errol Wallace
1992
Freejack
Ian McCandless
1992
Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man. The Myth. The Movies.
Self
1992
The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Self
1991
One Man’s War
Joel
1991
The Silence of the Lambs
Dr. Hannibal Lecter
1991
Desperate Hours
Tim Cornell
1990
A Chorus of Disapproval
Dafydd Ap Llewellyn
1989
Heartland
Jack
1989
Faroe Islands
(voice)
1989
The Tenth Man
Jean Louis Cheval
1988
Across the Lake
Donald Campbell
1988
The Dawning
Cassius / Angus Barrie
1988
84 Charing Cross Road
Frank P. Doel
1987
Blunt
Guy Burgess
1987
The Good Father
Bill Hooper
1985
Guilty Conscience
Arthur Jamison
1985
Arch of Triumph
Dr. Ravic
1984
The Bounty
Lieutenant William Bligh
1984
Little Eyolf
Alfred Allmers
1982
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Quasimodo
1982
Othello
Othello
1981
The Bunker
Adolf Hitler
1981
A Change of Seasons
Adam Evans
1980
The Elephant Man
Frederick Treves
1980
Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure
Captain Jones
1979
Magic
Corky Withers/Fats (voice)
1978
International Velvet
Captain Johnson
1978
A Bridge Too Far
Lt. Col. John D. Frost
1977
Audrey Rose
Elliot Hoover
1977
Victory at Entebbe
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
1976
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
1976
Dark Victory
Dr. Michael Grant
1976
All Creatures Great and Small
Siegfried Farnon
1975
The Girl from Petrovka
Kostya
1974
Juggernaut
Supt. John McCleod
1974
The Arcata Promise
Theo Gunge
1974
The Childhood Friend
Alexander Tashkov
1974
The Middle-of-the-Road Roadshow for All the Family
Hi
1973
A Doll's House
Torvald Helmer
1973
Young Winston
David Llyod George
1972
Poet Game
Hugh Saunders
1972
When Eight Bells Toll
Philip Calvert
1971
Hearts and Flowers
Bob
1970
Uncle Vanya
Astrov
1970
The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens
Charles Dickens
1970
The Three Sisters
Andrey
1970
The Looking Glass War
John Avery
1970
Hamlet
Claudius
1969
Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt
Wat Tyler
1969
The Lion in Winter
Richard
1968
Red, White, and Zero
Brechtian
1968
The White Bus
Brechtian
1967
Untitled Anthony Hopkins Documentary
Self
Eyes in the Trees
Dr. Addis
The King of Covent Garden
Georg Friedrich Händel
Bruno Penguin and the Staten Island Princess
Ben Windsor
Cus & Mike
Cus D’Amato
Maserati: The Brothers
Luca Antonelli
The Housekeeper
Lord Grenville-Whithers
A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf
Hrothgar
A Visit to Grandpa’s
The Species
Charles Darwin