Sir Anthony Hopkins, (born 31 December 1937), is a Welsh actor of film, stage and television, and a composer. Considered to be one of the greatest living actors, Hopkins is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs.
Other prominent film credits include The Lion in Winter, Magic, The Elephant Man, 84 Charing Cross Road, Dracula, Legends of the Fall, The Remains of the Day, Amistad, Nixon, The Edge, and Fracture. Hopkins was born and brought up in Wales. Retaining his British citizenship, he became a U.S. citizen on 12 April 2000. Hopkins' films have spanned a wide variety of genres, from family films to horror. As well as his Academy Award, Hopkins has also won three BAFTA Awards, two Emmys and the Cecil B. DeMille Golden Globe Award. Hopkins was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1993 for services to the arts. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2003, and was made a Fellow of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 2008.
Filmography[]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Refs. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | The White Bus | Brechtian | Short film | |
| 1968 | The Lion in Winter | Richard | ||
| 1969 | Hamlet | Claudius | ||
| 1970 | The Looking Glass War | Avery | ||
| 1971 | When Eight Bells Toll | Philip Calvert | ||
| 1972 | Young Winston | David Lloyd George | ||
| 1973 | A Doll's House | Torvald Helmer | ||
| 1974 | The Girl from Petrovka | Kostya | ||
| Juggernaut | Supt. John McCleod | |||
| 1977 | A Bridge Too Far | Lieutenant Colonel Frost | ||
| Audrey Rose | Elliot Hoover | |||
| 1978 | Magic | Corky / Voice of Fats | ||
| International Velvet | Captain Johnson | |||
| 1980 | The Elephant Man | Frederick Treves | ||
| A Change of Seasons | Adam Evans | |||
| 1984 | The Bounty | Lt. William Bligh | ||
| 1985 | The Good Father | Bill Hooper | ||
| 1987 | 84 Charing Cross Road | Frank Doel | ||
| 1988 | The Dawning | Maj. Angus "Cassuis" Barry | ||
| 1989 | A Chorus of Disapproval | Dafydd Ap Llewellyn | ||
| 1990 | Desperate Hours | Tim Cornell | ||
| Dylan Thomas: Return Journey | Introducer | Also director | ||
| 1991 | The Silence of the Lambs | Dr. Hannibal Lecter | ||
| 1992 | Freejack | Ian McCandless | ||
| Spotswood | Errol Wallace | |||
| Howards End | Henry J. Wilcox | |||
| Bram Stoker's Dracula | Professor Abraham Van Helsing | |||
| Chaplin | George Hayden | |||
| 1993 | The Trial | The Priest | ||
| The Innocent | Bob Glass | |||
| The Remains of the Day | James Stevens | |||
| Shadowlands | C. S. "Jack" Lewis | |||
| 1994 | The Road to Wellville | Dr. John Harvey Kellogg | ||
| Legends of the Fall | Col. William Ludlow | |||
| 1995 | Nixon | Richard Nixon | ||
| 1996 | August | Ieuan Davies | Also director | |
| Surviving Picasso | Pablo Picasso | |||
| 1997 | The Edge | Charles Morse | ||
| Amistad | John Quincy Adams | |||
| 1998 | The Mask of Zorro | Don Diego de la Vega / Zorro | ||
| Meet Joe Black | William Parrish | |||
| 1999 | Instinct | Dr. Ethan Powell | ||
| Siegfried & Roy: The Magic Box | Narrator (voice) | |||
| Titus | Titus Andronicus | |||
| 2000 | Mission: Impossible 2 | Commander Swanbeck | Uncredited cameo | |
| How the Grinch Stole Christmas | The Narrator (voice) | |||
| 2001 | Hannibal | Dr. Hannibal Lecter | ||
| Hearts in Atlantis | Ted Brautigan | |||
| 2002 | Bad Company | Officer Gaylord Oakes | ||
| Red Dragon | Dr. Hannibal Lecter | |||
| 2003 | The Human Stain | Coleman Silk | ||
| 2004 | Alexander | Ptolemy I Soter | ||
| 2005 | Proof | Robert | ||
| The World's Fastest Indian | Burt Munro | |||
| 2006 | Bobby | John | Also executive producer | |
| All the King's Men | Judge Irwin | |||
| 2007 | Shortcut to Happiness | Daniel Webster | ||
| Slipstream | Felix Bonhoeffer | Also director and writer | ||
| Fracture | Theodore "Ted" Crawford | |||
| Beowulf | Hrothgar | Motion capture | ||
| 2008 | Where I Stand: The Hank Greenspun Story | Narrator (voice) | Documentary | |
| Immutable Dream of Snow Lion | N/A | Short film | ||
| 2009 | The City of Your Final Destination | Adam Gund | ||
| 2010 | The Wolfman | Sir John Talbot | ||
| The Third Rule | Fabian Hogarth | Short film | ||
| You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger | Alfie Shepridge | |||
| 2011 | The Rite | Father Lucas | ||
| Thor | Odin | |||
| 360 | John | |||
| 2012 | Hitchcock | Alfred Hitchcock | ||
| 2013 | Red 2 | Edward Bailey | ||
| Thor: The Dark World | Odin | |||
| 2014 | Noah | Methuselah | ||
| 2015 | Kidnapping Freddy Heineken | Freddy Heineken | ||
| Solace | John Clancy | Also executive producer | ||
| Blackway | Lester | Also producer | ||
| 2016 | Misconduct | Arthur Denning | ||
| Collide | Hagen Kahl | |||
| 2017 | Transformers: The Last Knight | Sir Edmund Burton | ||
| Thor: Ragnarok | Odin | |||
| 2019 | The Two Popes | Pope Benedict XVI | ||
| Where Are You | Thomas Yorke | |||
| 2020 | The Father | Anthony Evans | ||
| Elyse | Dr. Philip Lewis | Also producer and composer | ||
| 2021 | The Virtuoso | The Mentor | ||
| Zero Contact | Finley Hart | |||
| 2022 | Armageddon Time | Aaron Rabinowitz | ||
| The Son | Anthony Miller | |||
| 2023 | One Life | Nicholas Winton | ||
| Freud's Last Session | Sigmund Freud | |||
| Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire | Jimmy (voice) | |||
| 2024 | Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver | |||
| Mary | King Herod | |||
| 2025 | Locked | William | ||
| TBA | Eyes in the Trees | Dr. Addis | Post-production | |
| Wife & Dog | Post-production | |||
| Maserati: The Brothers | Luca Antonelli | Filming |