Anthony Hopkins
Known for: 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.
Filmography
Series
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
2015
Series
The Daily Show
Self
1996
Series
Play for Today
Alexander Tashkov
1970
Series
Play for Today
Bob Goodliffe
1970
Series
Tony Awards
Self - Host
1956
Series
Tony Awards
Self - Co-Host
1956
Series
The View
Self
1997
Series
60 Minutes
Self
1968
Film
Thor: Ragnarok
Odin
2017
Series
Westworld
Dr. Robert Ford
2016
Series
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
1944
Series
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient
1944
Series
Golden Globe Awards
Self
1944
Series
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self - Guest
1988
Film
Thor: The Dark World
Odin
2013
Series
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
1993
Film
Thor
Odin
2011
Series
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self
2003
Series
People's Choice Awards
Self - Presenter
1975
Series
People's Choice Awards
Self - Accepting Award
1975
Series
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
2014
Series
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Self
1992
Series
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
1968
Series
Screen Two
The Priest
1985
Series
Screen Two
Guy Burgess
1985
Series
Natural World
1983
Series
Welcome to Wrexham
Self (archive footage)
2022
Series
Omnibus
1967
Film '72
Self
1971
Series
BBC Play of the Month
Alfred Allmers
1965
Series
BBC Play of the Month
Edmund Kean
1965
Series
BBC Play of the Month
Andrey
1965
Series
BBC Play of the Month
Astrov
1965
Film
Mission: Impossible II
Mission Commander Swanbeck (uncredited)
2000
Series
Marvel Studios Legends
Odin (archive footage) (uncredited)
2021
Series
Parkinson
Self
1998
Film
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Professor Abraham Van Helsing
1992
Series
The Oscars
Self
1953
Series
Mythic Quest
Everlight Narrator (voice)
2020
Film
Meet Joe Black
William Parrish
1998
Series
Those About to Die
Emperor Vespasian
2024
Series
Today
Self
1952
Film
Transformers: The Last Knight
Sir Edmund Burton
2017
Film
Legends of the Fall
Col. William Ludlow
1994
Film
The Mask of Zorro
Don Diego de la Vega / Zorro
1998
Film
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Narrator (voice)
2000
Film
The Elephant Man
Frederick Treves
1980
Film
Noah
Methuselah
2014
Film
The Father
Anthony
2020
Series
The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA
Self
1995
Film
Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire
Jimmy (voice)
2023
Film
Alexander
Old Ptolemy
2004
Series
The Play on One
Jack
1988
Film
The Silence of the Lambs
Dr. Hannibal Lecter
1991
Film
Fracture
Ted Crawford
2007
Series
A Woman of Substance
Jack Figg
1985
Film
The Lion in Winter
Richard
1968
Film
Beowulf
Hrothgar (Voice)
2007
Series
Department S
Greg Halliday
1969
Film
Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver
Jimmy (voice)
2024
Film
The Remains of the Day
James Stevens
1993
Film
A Bridge Too Far
Lt. Col. John D. Frost
1977
Series
Charlie Rose
Self
1991
Film
The Human Stain
Coleman Silk
2003
Film
RED 2
Bailey
2013
Series
Baseball
(voice)
1994
Film
Locked
William
2025
Film
All the King's Men
Judge Irwin
2006
Film
The Wolfman
Sir John Talbot
2010
Film
Armageddon Time
Aaron Rabinowitz
2022
Film
Solace
John Clancy
2015
Film
The Edge
Charles Morse
1997
Film
Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock
2012
Film
The Rite
Father Lucas Trevant
2011
Film
Hearts in Atlantis
Ted Brautigan
2001
Film
The Two Popes
Joseph Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI
2019
Film
The Bounty
Lieutenant William Bligh
1984
Film
The World's Fastest Indian
Burt Munro
2005
Film
One Life
Nicholas Winton
2023
Film
Instinct
Dr. Ethan Powell
1999
Film
The Son
Anthony
2022
Film
King Lear
Lear
2018
Film
The Virtuoso
The Mentor
2021
Film
Chaplin
George Hayden
1992
Film
Bad Company
Oakes
2002
Series
War & Peace
Pierre Bezukhov
1972
Film
Howards End
Henry J. Wilcox
1992
Harty
Self
1983
Series
The Man in Room 17
Dr. Harding
1965
Film
84 Charing Cross Road
Frank P. Doel
1987
Film
Nixon
Richard Nixon
1995
Series
A Married Man
John Strickland
1983
Film
Freud's Last Session
Sigmund Freud
2023
Film
Juggernaut
Supt. John McCleod
1974
Series
The Edwardians
David Lloyd George
1972
Film
Sly
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2023
Film
Kidnapping Mr. Heineken
Freddy Heineken
2015
Film
Desperate Hours
Tim Cornell
1990
Series
Mussolini and I
Count Galeazzo Ciano
1985
Film
Freejack
Ian McCandless
1992
Film
Love, Antosha
Self (voice)
2019
Film
Shortcut to Happiness
Daniel Webster
2007
Film
Spielberg
John Quincy Adams (archive footage) (uncredited)
2017
Film
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
Alfie
2010
Film
Titus
Titus Andronicus
1999
Film
Bobby
John Casey
2006
Film
Misconduct
Arthur Denning
2016
Black and Blue
Hi
1973
Film
Mary
King Herod
2024
Series
Hollywood Wives
Neil Gray
1985
Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Siegfried
1951
Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Quasimodo
1951
Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Jean Louis Chavel
1951
Film
Proof
Robert Llewellyn
2005
Series
Peter and Paul
Paul of Tarsus
1981
Film
Surviving Picasso
Pablo Picasso
1996
Film
Wife & Dog
2027
Series
Six Centuries of Verse
Self - Reader
1984
Film
Hannibal
Dr. Hannibal Lecter
2001
Film
The Road to Wellville
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg
1994
Film
Blackway
Lester
2015
Film
Zero Contact
Finley Hart
2022
Film
Junket Whore
Self
1998
The Ten Commandments
Steve
1971
Film
Collide
Hagen Kahl
2016
Film
The Dresser
Sir
2015
Film
Red Dragon
Hannibal Lecter
2002
Biography
Danton
1970
Film
Victory at Entebbe
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
1976
Film
Shadowlands
C. S. 'Jack' Lewis
1993
Film
Magic
Corky Withers / Fats (voice)
1978
Film
360
John
2012
Film
Nothing Like a Dame
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2018
Film
Young Winston
David Llyod George
1972
Film
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
Self - (archive footage)
2025
Series
The Company of Five
Richard Mason
1968
Film
Audrey Rose
Elliot Hoover
1977
Series
Predators Killing for a Living
1997
Sunday Premiere
Donald Campbell
1986
Series
QB VII
Adam Kelno
1974
Film
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
Self (archive footage)
2021
Film
The Bunker
Adolf Hitler
1981
Film
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Quasimodo
1982
Film
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
2005
Film
Spotswood
Errol Wallace
1992
Film
The City of Your Final Destination
Adam Gund
2009
The Man Outside
Albert Watts
1972
Series
Great Expectations
Abel Magwitch
1989
Film
The Species
Charles Darwin
Film
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
Self
1996
Series
To Be the Best
Jack Figg
1992
Film
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
Self
2001
Film
The Tenth Man
Jean Louis Cheval
1988
Film
The Looking Glass War
John Avery
1970
Film
Maserati: The Brothers
Luca Antonelli
2026
Childhood
Dando
1977
Film
A Change of Seasons
Adam Evans
1980
Film
The Trial
The Priest
1993
A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf
Hrothgar
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
Self
2001
Film
Arch of Triumph
Dr. Ravic
1984
Film
When Eight Bells Toll
Philip Calvert
1971
Series
Inside the Actors Studio
Self
1994
Film
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Self
2022
Film
Parkinson at 50
Self (archive footage)
2021
Film
The Girl from Petrovka
Kostya
1974
Film
Guilty Conscience
Arthur Jamison
1985
Film
The Good Father
Bill Hooper
1985
Film
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
Self
1994
The Housekeeper
Lord Grenville-Whithers
Film
Othello
Othello
1981
Film
The Innocent
Glass
1993
Film
The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens
Charles Dickens
1970
A Matter of Degree
Stephen
1960
Film
Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure
Captain Jones
1979
Film
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
Self
2014
Film
Heartland
Jack
1989
Film
Earth and the American Dream
Reader (voice)
1992
Film
Amistad
John Quincy Adams
1997
Film
One Man’s War
Joel
1991
Film
Slipstream
Felix Bonhoeffer
2007
Film
A Chorus of Disapproval
Dafydd Ap Llewellyn
1989
Film
The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Self
1991
Untitled Anthony Hopkins Documentary
Self
Film
Hamlet
Claudius
1969
Film
Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips
Self / Ieuan Davies
2013
Film
Creating a Universe - The Making of Rebel Moon
Self
2024
Film
Where Are You
Thomas
2022
Film
International Velvet
Captain Johnson
1978
Film
August
Ieuan Davies
1996
Film
Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs
Self
2010
Film
Red, White, and Zero
Brechtian
1968
Film
Faroe Islands
(voice)
1989
Film
Dreaming Slipstream Dream
Self
2008
Getting in Touch with your Inner Thor
Self
2018
Film
Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt
Wat Tyler
1969
Film
A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'
Self
2003
Film
The Third Rule
Fabian Hogarth
2010
Film
The Remains of the Day: The Filmmaker's Journey
Self
2001
Film
Hannibal Lecter, l'icône du mal par excellence
Self
2010
Film
Across the Lake
Donald Campbell
1988
Film
Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Self
2001
Film
The Arcata Promise
Theo Gunge
1974
Film
All Creatures Great and Small
Siegfried Farnon
1975
Film
Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man, The Myth, The Movies
Self
1992
Film
The Dawning
Cassius / Angus Barrie
1988
Film
Unmasking Zorro
Self
2001
Film
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
1976
Film
Little Eyolf
Alfred Allmers
1982
Film
Bare Knuckles
Xavier Jonas (uncredited)
2010
Film
A Doll's House
Torvald Helmer
1973
Film
The White Bus
Brechtian
1967
Film
Dark Victory
Dr. Michael Grant
1976
Film
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
Self (archive footage)
2007
Film
Elyse
Dr. Philip Lewis
2020
Film
A Tribute To Ismail Merchant
Self (archive footage)
2005
The True Story of Hannibal
Self
2005
Eyes in the Trees
Dr. Addis
Bruno Penguin and the Staten Island Princess
Ben Windsor
Film
Hearts and Flowers
Bob
1970
Film
The Many Faces of Zorro
Self
2000
Film
Poet Game
Hugh Saunders
1972
Film
Blind Loyalty, Hollow Honor: England's Fatal Flaw
Self
2001
Film
Love & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day'
Self
2001
Film
Thor: From Asgard to Earth
Self
2011
Cus & Mike
Cus D’Amato
Uncle Vanya
Astrov
1970
A Visit to Grandpa’s
Grandpa
Film
The Childhood Friend
Alexander Tashkov
1974
Film
Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends
Self
2007
The King of Covent Garden
Georg Friedrich Händel
Film
The Three Sisters
Andrey
1970
Film
Blunt
Guy Burgess
1987
Series
Celebrities Uncensored
Self
2003
Film
Siegfried & Roy: The Magic Box
Narrator
1999
Film
The Middle-of-the-Road Roadshow for All the Family
Hi
1973
Little Secret
Narrator
1999
Film
The Lost Children of Berlin
Narrator
1997