Anthony Hopkins

Not to be confused with Antony Hopkins or A. G. Hopkins.

Sir
Anthony Hopkins
CBE
Hopkins at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival
Born
Philip Anthony Hopkins

(1937-12-31) 31 December 1937 (age 86)
Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales
Citizenship
  • United Kingdom
  • United States[1]
Education
Occupations
  • Actor
  • director
  • producer
Years active1960–present
WorksFull list
Spouses
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    (m. 1966; div. 1972)​
  • Jennifer Lynton
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    (m. 1973; div. 2002)​
  • Stella Arroyave
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    (m. 2003)​
Children1
AwardsFull list

Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins (born 31 December 1937) is a Welsh actor.[2] One of Britain's most recognisable and prolific actors, he is known for his performances on the screen and stage. Hopkins has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Laurence Olivier Award. He has also received the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2005 and the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement in 2008.[3] He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to drama in 1993.[4]

After graduating from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 1957, Hopkins trained at RADA (the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) in London. He 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), Coriolanus, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra. In 1985, he received acclaim and a Laurence Olivier Award for his performance in the David Hare play Pravda. His last stage play was a West End production of M. Butterfly in 1989.

Hopkins's early film roles include The Lion in Winter (1968), A Bridge Too Far (1977), and The Elephant Man (1980). He won two Academy Awards for Best Actor for playing Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and an octogenarian with dementia in The Father (2020), becoming the oldest Best Actor Oscar winner for the latter.[5][6] His other Oscar-nominated films include The Remains of the Day (1993), Nixon (1995), Amistad (1997), and The Two Popes (2019). Other notable films include 84 Charing Cross Road (1987), Howards End (1992), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), Shadowlands (1993), Legends of the Fall (1994), The Mask of Zorro (1998), and the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Thor franchise (2011–2017).

For his work on television, Hopkins received a British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for his performance in War and Peace (1972). He won two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series for The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (1976) and The Bunker (1981). Other notable projects include the BBC film The Dresser (2015), PBS's King Lear (2018), and the HBO series Westworld (2016–2018).[7]

  1. ^ "Sir Anthony, Citizen Hopkins". CBS News. Associated Press. 13 April 2000. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Guardian interview 2012 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "AP: Hopkins to Receive Cecil B. DeMille Award". IndieWire. Archived from the original on 28 December 2022. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
  4. ^ "From Lewis Hamilton to Twiggy: All the Celebrities Knighted by the British Royal Family". Vogue. 7 November 2018. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
  5. ^ Verhoeven, Beatrice (15 March 2021). "Anthony Hopkins Becomes Oldest Best Actor Nominee at Oscars". The Wrap. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
  6. ^ Martinelli, Marissa (26 April 2021). "Anthony Hopkins' Age Isn't the Only Noteworthy Thing About His Oscar Win". Slate. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference Telegraph 2015 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).