1937-12-31 ( 87 years old ) in Margam, Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales, UK

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Anthony Hopkins, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies

Locked 2025-03-20
Mary 2024-12-12
One Life 2023-12-21
Sly 2023-09-16
The Son 2022-11-10
Where Are You 2022-10-21
Zero Contact 2022-05-27
The Virtuoso 2021-04-30
The Father 2020-12-23
Elyse 2020-07-01
The Two Popes 2019-11-27
Love, Antosha 2019-08-02
King Lear 2018-05-28
Spielberg 2017-10-05
Thor: Ragnarok 2017-10-02
Collide 2016-06-10
Misconduct 2016-02-05
The Dresser 2015-10-31
Blackway 2015-10-03
Solace 2015-09-03
Noah 2014-03-07
RED 2 2013-07-18
Hitchcock 2012-11-22
360 2012-07-25
Thor 2011-04-21
The Rite 2011-01-28
The Third Rule 2010-04-23
The Wolfman 2010-02-10
Bare Knuckles 2010-01-01
Beowulf 2007-11-05
Fracture 2007-04-19
Slipstream 2007-02-10
Bobby 2006-09-05
Proof 2005-09-05
Alexander 2004-11-21
Red Dragon 2002-10-02
Bad Company 2002-06-07
Hannibal 2001-02-08
Titus 1999-12-25
Little Secret 1999-09-16
Instinct 1999-06-04
Meet Joe Black 1998-11-12
Junket Whore 1998-10-12
Amistad 1997-12-10
The Edge 1997-09-06
August 1996-08-08
Nixon 1995-12-22
Shadowlands 1993-12-25
The Innocent 1993-09-16
The Trial 1993-06-18
Chaplin 1992-12-17
Howards End 1992-03-13
Spotswood 1992-01-23
Freejack 1992-01-17
Heartland 1989-02-21
Faroe Islands 1989-01-01
The Tenth Man 1988-12-04
The Dawning 1988-06-08
Blunt 1987-01-11
The Bounty 1984-05-04
Little Eyolf 1982-07-19
Othello 1981-10-04
The Bunker 1981-04-15
Magic 1978-11-08
Audrey Rose 1977-04-06
Dark Victory 1976-02-05
Juggernaut 1974-09-25
A Doll's House 1973-04-10
Young Winston 1972-07-20
Poet Game 1972-03-14
Uncle Vanya 1970-11-08
Hamlet 1969-12-21
The White Bus 1967-12-01