Anthony Hopkins

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.

Known For

The Daily Show

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Westworld

Play for Today

Play for Today

The View

Golden Globe Awards

Golden Globe Awards

All Movies (170)

• Wife & Dog2026
• Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies2025 · as Self - (archive footage)
• Locked2025 · as William
• Mary2024 · as King Herod
• Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver2024 · as Jimmy (voice)
• Creating a Universe - The Making of Rebel Moon2024 · as Self
• Freud's Last Session2023 · as Sigmund Freud
• One Life2023 · as Nicholas Winton
• Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire2023 · as Jimmy (voice)
• Sly2023 · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba2022 · as Self
• The Son2022 · as Anthony
• Armageddon Time2022 · as Aaron Rabinowitz
• Where Are You2022 · as Thomas
• Zero Contact2022 · as Finley Hart
• Parkinson at 502021 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Virtuoso2021 · as The Mentor
• Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony2021 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Father2020 · as Anthony
• Elyse2020 · as Dr. Philip Lewis
• The Two Popes2019 · as Joseph Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI
• Love, Antosha2019 · as Self (voice)
• King Lear2018 · as Lear
• Nothing Like a Dame2018 · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Spielberg2017 · as John Quincy Adams (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Thor: Ragnarok2017 · as Odin
• Transformers: The Last Knight2017 · as Sir Edmund Burton
• Collide2016 · as Hagen Kahl
• Misconduct2016 · as Arthur Denning
• The Dresser2015 · as Sir
• Blackway2015 · as Lester
• Solace2015 · as John Clancy
• Kidnapping Mr. Heineken2015 · as Freddy Heineken
• Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film2014 · as Self
• Noah2014 · as Methuselah
• Thor: The Dark World2013 · as Odin
• Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips2013 · as Self / Ieuan Davies
• RED 22013 · as Bailey
• Hitchcock2012 · as Alfred Hitchcock
• Marvel Studios: Building a Cinematic Universe2012 · as Self
• 3602012 · as John
• Thor: From Asgard to Earth2011 · as Self
• Thor2011 · as Odin
• The Rite2011 · as Father Lucas Trevant
• You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger2010 · as Alfie
• Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs2010 · as Self
• The Third Rule2010 · as Fabian Hogarth
• The Wolfman2010 · as Sir John Talbot
• Bare Knuckles2010 · as Xavier Jonas (uncredited)
• Hannibal Lecter, l'icône du mal par excellence2010 · as Self
• The City of Your Final Destination2009 · as Adam Gund
• Dreaming Slipstream Dream2008 · as Self
• Beowulf2007 · as Hrothgar
• The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'2007 · as Self (archive footage)
• Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends2007 · as Self
• Shortcut to Happiness2007 · as Daniel Webster
• Fracture2007 · as Theodore Crawford
• Slipstream2007 · as Felix Bonhoeffer
• All the King's Men2006 · as Judge Irwin
• Bobby2006 · as John Casey
• A Tribute To Ismail Merchant2005 · as Self (archive footage)
• The World's Fastest Indian2005 · as Burt Munro
• Proof2005 · as Robert Llewellyn
• Nos Bastidores de Hollywood2005 · as Self (archive footage)
• The True Story of Hannibal2005 · as Self
• Alexander2004 · as Old Ptolemy
• The Human Stain2003 · as Coleman Silk
• A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'2003 · as Self
• Red Dragon2002 · as Hannibal Lecter
• Bad Company2002 · as Oakes
• Love & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day'2001 · as Self
• Hearts in Atlantis2001 · as Ted Brautigan
• Unmasking Zorro2001 · as Self
• Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'2001 · as Self
• Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal2001 · as Self
• Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul2001 · as Self
• Hannibal2001 · as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
• Blind Loyalty, Hollow Honor: England's Fatal Flaw2001 · as Self
• The Remains of the Day: The Filmmaker's Journey2001 · as Self
• The Many Faces of Zorro2000 · as Self
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas2000 · as Narrator (voice)
• Mission: Impossible II2000 · as Mission Commander Swanbeck (uncredited)
• Titus1999 · as Titus Andronicus
• Siegfried & Roy: The Magic Box1999 · as Narrator
• Little Secret1999 · as Narrator
• Instinct1999 · as Dr. Ethan Powell
• Meet Joe Black1998 · as William Parrish
• Junket Whore1998 · as Self
• The Mask of Zorro1998 · as Don Diego de la Vega / Zorro
• Amistad1997 · as John Quincy Adams
• The Edge1997 · as Charles Morse
• The Lost Children of Berlin1997 · as Narrator
• Surviving Picasso1996 · as Pablo Picasso
• August1996 · as Ieuan Davies
• Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels1996 · as Self
• Nixon1995 · as Richard Nixon
• Legends of the Fall1994 · as Col. William Ludlow
• The Road to Wellville1994 · as Dr. John Harvey Kellogg
• Marlon Brando: The Wild One1994 · as Self
• Shadowlands1993 · as C. S. 'Jack' Lewis
• The Remains of the Day1993 · as James Stevens
• The Innocent1993 · as Glass
• The Trial1993 · as The Priest
• Chaplin1992 · as George Hayden
• Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man, The Myth, The Movies1992 · as Self
• Bram Stoker's Dracula1992 · as Professor Abraham Van Helsing
• Earth and the American Dream1992 · as Reader (voice)
• Howards End1992 · as Henry J. Wilcox
• Spotswood1992 · as Errol Wallace
• Freejack1992 · as Ian McCandless
• The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'1991 · as Self
• One Man’s War1991 · as Joel
• The Silence of the Lambs1991 · as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
• Desperate Hours1990 · as Tim Cornell
• A Chorus of Disapproval1989 · as Dafydd Ap Llewellyn
• Heartland1989 · as Jack
• Faroe Islands1989 · as (voice)
• The Tenth Man1988 · as Jean Louis Cheval
• Across the Lake1988 · as Donald Campbell
• The Dawning1988 · as Cassius / Angus Barrie
• 84 Charing Cross Road1987 · as Frank P. Doel
• Blunt1987 · as Guy Burgess
• The Good Father1985 · as Bill Hooper
• Guilty Conscience1985 · as Arthur Jamison
• Arch of Triumph1984 · as Dr. Ravic
• The Bounty1984 · as Lieutenant William Bligh
• Little Eyolf1982 · as Alfred Allmers
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame1982 · as Quasimodo
• Othello1981 · as Othello
• The Bunker1981 · as Adolf Hitler
• A Change of Seasons1980 · as Adam Evans
• The Elephant Man1980 · as Frederick Treves
• Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure1979 · as Captain Jones
• Magic1978 · as Corky Withers/Fats (voice)
• International Velvet1978 · as Captain Johnson
• A Bridge Too Far1977 · as Lt. Col. John D. Frost
• Audrey Rose1977 · as Elliot Hoover
• Victory at Entebbe1976 · as Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
• The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case1976 · as Bruno Richard Hauptmann
• Dark Victory1976 · as Dr. Michael Grant
• All Creatures Great and Small1975 · as Siegfried Farnon
• The Girl from Petrovka1974 · as Kostya
• Juggernaut1974 · as Supt. John McCleod
• The Arcata Promise1974 · as Theo Gunge
• The Childhood Friend1974 · as Alexander Tashkov
• The Middle-of-the-Road Roadshow for All the Family1973 · as Hi
• A Doll's House1973 · as Torvald Helmer
• Young Winston1972 · as David Llyod George
• Poet Game1972 · as Hugh Saunders
• When Eight Bells Toll1971 · as Philip Calvert
• Hearts and Flowers1970 · as Bob
• Uncle Vanya1970 · as Astrov
• The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens1970 · as Charles Dickens
• The Three Sisters1970 · as Andrey
• The Looking Glass War1970 · as John Avery
• Hamlet1969 · as Claudius
• Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt1969 · as Wat Tyler
• The Lion in Winter1968 · as Richard
• Red, White, and Zero1968 · as Brechtian
• The White Bus1967 · as Brechtian
• Untitled Anthony Hopkins Documentary— · as Self
• Eyes in the Trees— · as Dr. Addis
• The King of Covent Garden— · as Georg Friedrich Händel
• Bruno Penguin and the Staten Island Princess— · as Ben Windsor
• Cus & Mike— · as Cus D’Amato
• Maserati: The Brothers— · as Luca Antonelli
• The Housekeeper— · as Lord Grenville-Whithers
• A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf— · as Hrothgar
• A Visit to Grandpa’s—
• The Species— · as Charles Darwin

All TV Shows (65)

• Those About to Die2024 · as Emperor Vespasian
• Welcome to Wrexham2022 · as Self (archive footage)
• Marvel Studios Legends2021 · as Odin (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Mythic Quest2020 · as Everlight Narrator (voice)
• Westworld2016 · as Dr. Robert Ford
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert2015 · as Self - Guest
• Variety Studio: Actors on Actors2014 · as Self
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show2003 · as Self
• Celebrities Uncensored2003 · as Self
• Parkinson1998 · as Self
• Predators Killing for a Living1997
• The View1997 · as Self
• The Daily Show1996 · as Self
• The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA1995 · as Self
• Baseball1994 · as (voice)
• Inside the Actors Studio1994 · as Self
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien1993 · as Self - Guest
• To Be the Best1992 · as Jack Figg
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno1992 · as Self
• Charlie Rose1991 · as Self
• Great Expectations1989 · as Abel Magwitch
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark1988 · as Self - Guest
• The Play on One1988 · as Jack
• Mussolini and I1985 · as Count Galeazzo Ciano
• Hollywood Wives1985 · as Neil Gray
• Screen Two1985 · as The Priest
• Screen Two1985 · as Guy Burgess
• A Woman of Substance1985 · as Jack Figg
• Six Centuries of Verse1984 · as Self - Reader
• Natural World1983
• Harty1983 · as Self
• A Married Man1983 · as John Strickland
• Peter and Paul1981 · as Paul of Tarsus
• Childhood1977 · as Dando
• People's Choice Awards1975 · as Self - Presenter
• People's Choice Awards1975 · as Self - Accepting Award
• QB VII1974 · as Adam Kelno
• Black and Blue1973 · as Hi
• The Edwardians1972 · as David Lloyd George
• War & Peace1972 · as Pierre Bezukhov
• The Man Outside1972 · as Albert Watts
• Film '721971 · as Self
• The Ten Commandments1971 · as Steve
• Play for Today1970 · as Alexander Tashkov
• Play for Today1970 · as Bob Goodliffe
• Department S1969 · as Greg Halliday
• The Company of Five1968 · as Richard Mason
• 60 Minutes1968 · as Self
• The Dick Cavett Show1968 · as Self - Guest
• Omnibus1967
• BBC Play of the Month1965 · as Andrey
• BBC Play of the Month1965 · as Alfred Allmers
• BBC Play of the Month1965 · as Edmund Kean
• BBC Play of the Month1965 · as Astrov
• The Man in Room 171965 · as Dr. Harding
• Tony Awards1956 · as Self - Host
• Tony Awards1956 · as Self - Co-Host
• The Oscars1953 · as Self
• Today1952 · as Self
• Hallmark Hall of Fame1951 · as Siegfried
• Hallmark Hall of Fame1951 · as Quasimodo
• Hallmark Hall of Fame1951 · as Jean Louis Chavel
• Golden Globe Awards1944 · as Self - Nominee
• Golden Globe Awards1944 · as Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient
• Golden Globe Awards1944 · as Self