Acting · Margam, Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales, UK · Born December 31, 1937
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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2023
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2023
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MovieSly
2023
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
MoviePeter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022
as Self
MovieThe Son
2022
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2022
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2022
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2022
as Self (archive footage)
MovieZero Contact
2022
as Finley Hart
MovieParkinson at 50
2021
as Self (archive footage)
MovieThe Virtuoso
2021
as The Mentor
MovieHannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
2021
as Self (archive footage)
TVMarvel Studios Legends
2021
as Odin (archive footage) (uncredited)
MovieThe Father
2020
as Anthony
MovieElyse
2020
as Dr. Philip Lewis
TVMythic Quest
2020
as Everlight Narrator (voice)
MovieThe Two Popes
2019
as Joseph Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI
MovieLove, Antosha
2019
as Self (voice)
MovieKing Lear
2018
as Lear
MovieNothing Like a Dame
2018
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
MovieSpielberg
2017
as John Quincy Adams (archive footage) (uncredited)
MovieThor: Ragnarok
2017
as Odin
MovieTransformers: The Last Knight
2017
as Sir Edmund Burton
TVWestworld
2016
as Dr. Robert Ford
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2016
as Hagen Kahl
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2016
as Arthur Denning
MovieThe Dresser
2015
as Sir
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2015
as Lester
TVThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self - Guest
MovieSolace
2015
as John Clancy
MovieKidnapping Mr. Heineken
2015
as Freddy Heineken
TVVariety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
as Self
MovieRichard Attenborough: A Life in Film
2014
as Self
MovieNoah
2014
as Methuselah
MovieThor: The Dark World
2013
as Odin
MovieHello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips
2013
as Self / Ieuan Davies
MovieRED 2
2013
as Bailey
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2012
as Alfred Hitchcock
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2012
as Self
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2012
as John
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2011
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MovieThor
2011
as Odin
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2011
as Father Lucas Trevant
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2010
as Alfie
MovieInside Story - The Silence of the Lambs
2010
as Self
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2010
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2010
as Sir John Talbot
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2010
as Xavier Jonas (uncredited)
MovieHannibal Lecter, l'icône du mal par excellence
2010
as Self
MovieThe City of Your Final Destination
2009
as Adam Gund
MovieDreaming Slipstream Dream
2008
as Self
MovieBeowulf
2007
as Hrothgar (Voice)
MovieThe Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
2007
as Self (archive footage)
MovieTony Bennett: The Music Never Ends
2007
as Self
MovieShortcut to Happiness
2007
as Daniel Webster
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2007
as Ted Crawford
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2007
as Felix Bonhoeffer
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2006
as Judge Irwin
MovieBobby
2006
as John Casey
MovieA Tribute To Ismail Merchant
2005
as Self (archive footage)
MovieThe World's Fastest Indian
2005
as Burt Munro
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2005
as Robert Llewellyn
MovieNos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005
as Self (archive footage)
The True Story of Hannibal
2005
as Self
MovieAlexander
2004
as Old Ptolemy
MovieThe Human Stain
2003
as Coleman Silk
TVThe Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
as Self
TVCelebrities Uncensored
2003
as Self
MovieA Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'
2003
as Self
MovieRed Dragon
2002
as Hannibal Lecter
MovieBad Company
2002
as Oakes
MovieLove & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day'
2001
as Self
MovieHearts in Atlantis
2001
as Ted Brautigan
MovieUnmasking Zorro
2001
as Self
MovieInside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
2001
as Self
MovieBreaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
2001
as Self
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
2001
as Self
MovieHannibal
2001
as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
MovieBlind Loyalty, Hollow Honor: England's Fatal Flaw
2001
as Self
MovieThe Remains of the Day: The Filmmaker's Journey
2001
as Self
MovieThe Many Faces of Zorro
2000
as Self
MovieHow the Grinch Stole Christmas
2000
as Narrator (voice)
MovieMission: Impossible II
2000
as Mission Commander Swanbeck (uncredited)
MovieTitus
1999
as Titus Andronicus
MovieSiegfried & Roy: The Magic Box
1999
as Narrator
Little Secret
1999
as Narrator
MovieInstinct
1999
as Dr. Ethan Powell
MovieMeet Joe Black
1998
as William Parrish
MovieJunket Whore
1998
as Self
MovieThe Mask of Zorro
1998
as Don Diego de la Vega / Zorro
TVParkinson
1998
as Self
MovieAmistad
1997
as John Quincy Adams
MovieThe Edge
1997
as Charles Morse
TVPredators Killing for a Living
1997
TVThe View
1997
as Self
MovieThe Lost Children of Berlin
1997
as Narrator
MovieSurviving Picasso
1996
as Pablo Picasso
MovieAugust
1996
as Ieuan Davies
TVThe Daily Show
1996
as Self
MovieShirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
1996
as Self
MovieNixon
1995
as Richard Nixon
TVThe Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA
1995
as Self
MovieLegends of the Fall
1994
as Col. William Ludlow
MovieThe Road to Wellville
1994
as Dr. John Harvey Kellogg
TVBaseball
1994
as (voice)
TVInside the Actors Studio
1994
as Self
MovieMarlon Brando: The Wild One
1994
as Self
MovieShadowlands
1993
as C. S. 'Jack' Lewis
MovieThe Remains of the Day
1993
as James Stevens
MovieThe Innocent
1993
as Glass
TVLate Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest
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1993
as The Priest
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1992
as George Hayden
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1992
as Self
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1992
as Professor Abraham Van Helsing
MovieEarth and the American Dream
1992
as Reader (voice)
TVTo Be the Best
1992
as Jack Figg
TVThe Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
as Self
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1992
as Henry J. Wilcox
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1992
as Errol Wallace
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1992
as Ian McCandless
TVCharlie Rose
1991
as Self
MovieThe Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
1991
as Self
MovieOne Man’s War
1991
as Joel
MovieThe Silence of the Lambs
1991
as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
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1990
as Tim Cornell
MovieA Chorus of Disapproval
1989
as Dafydd Ap Llewellyn
TVGreat Expectations
1989
as Abel Magwitch
MovieHeartland
1989
as Jack
MovieFaroe Islands
1989
as (voice)
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1988
as Jean Louis Cheval
TVLIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
as Self - Guest
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1988
as Donald Campbell
MovieThe Dawning
1988
as Cassius / Angus Barrie
TVThe Play on One
1988
as Jack
Movie84 Charing Cross Road
1987
as Frank P. Doel
MovieBlunt
1987
as Guy Burgess
Sunday Premiere
1986
as Donald Campbell
MovieThe Good Father
1985
as Bill Hooper
TVMussolini and I
1985
as Count Galeazzo Ciano
MovieGuilty Conscience
1985
as Arthur Jamison
TVHollywood Wives
1985
as Neil Gray
TVScreen Two
1985
as The Priest
TVA Woman of Substance
1985
as Jack Figg
MovieArch of Triumph
1984
as Dr. Ravic
MovieThe Bounty
1984
as Lieutenant William Bligh
TVSix Centuries of Verse
1984
as Self - Reader
TVNatural World
1983
Harty
1983
as Self
TVA Married Man
1983
as John Strickland
MovieLittle Eyolf
1982
as Alfred Allmers
MovieThe Hunchback of Notre Dame
1982
as Quasimodo
MovieOthello
1981
as Othello
MovieThe Bunker
1981
as Adolf Hitler
TVPeter and Paul
1981
as Paul of Tarsus
MovieA Change of Seasons
1980
as Adam Evans
MovieThe Elephant Man
1980
as Frederick Treves
MovieMayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure
1979
as Captain Jones
MovieMagic
1978
as Corky Withers / Fats (voice)
MovieInternational Velvet
1978
as Captain Johnson
MovieA Bridge Too Far
1977
as Lt. Col. John D. Frost
MovieAudrey Rose
1977
as Elliot Hoover
Childhood
1977
as Dando
MovieVictory at Entebbe
1976
as Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
MovieThe Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
1976
as Bruno Richard Hauptmann
MovieDark Victory
1976
as Dr. Michael Grant
MovieAll Creatures Great and Small
1975
as Siegfried Farnon
TVPeople's Choice Awards
1975
as Self - Presenter
MovieThe Girl from Petrovka
1974
as Kostya
MovieJuggernaut
1974
as Supt. John McCleod
MovieThe Arcata Promise
1974
as Theo Gunge
MovieThe Childhood Friend
1974
as Alexander Tashkov
TVQB VII
1974
as Adam Kelno
MovieThe Middle-of-the-Road Roadshow for All the Family
1973
as Hi
Black and Blue
1973
as Hi
MovieA Doll's House
1973
as Torvald Helmer
TVThe Edwardians
1972
as David Lloyd George
TVWar & Peace
1972
as Pierre Bezukhov
MovieYoung Winston
1972
as David Llyod George
The Man Outside
1972
as Albert Watts
MoviePoet Game
1972
as Hugh Saunders
Film '72
1971
as Self
MovieWhen Eight Bells Toll
1971
as Philip Calvert
The Ten Commandments
1971
as Steve
MovieHearts and Flowers
1970
as Bob
Uncle Vanya
1970
as Astrov
Biography
1970
as Danton
TVPlay for Today
1970
as Alexander Tashkov
MovieThe Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens
1970
as Charles Dickens
MovieThe Three Sisters
1970
as Andrey
MovieThe Looking Glass War
1970
as John Avery
MovieHamlet
1969
as Claudius
TVDepartment S
1969
as Greg Halliday
MovieMedieval England: The Peasants' Revolt
1969
as Wat Tyler
TVThe Company of Five
1968
as Richard Mason
TV60 Minutes
1968
as Self
MovieThe Lion in Winter
1968
as Richard
TVThe Dick Cavett Show
1968
as Self - Guest
MovieRed, White, and Zero
1968
as Brechtian
MovieThe White Bus
1967
as Brechtian
TVOmnibus
1967
TVBBC Play of the Month
1965
as Andrey
TVThe Man in Room 17
1965
as Dr. Harding
A Matter of Degree
1960
as Stephen
TVTony Awards
1956
as Self - Host
TVThe Oscars
1953
as Self
TVToday
1952
as Self
TVHallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Siegfried
TVGolden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee
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
MovieMaserati: 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
as Grandpa
MovieThe Species
as Charles Darwin
