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.
159 movies · 57 shows
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
2025·0.0
Locked
2025·6.2
Mary
2024·6.3
Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver
2024·6.1
Creating a Universe - The Making of Rebel Moon
2024·6.3
Freud's Last Session
2023·6.6
One Life
2023·7.8
Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire
2023·6.2
Sly
2023·7.2
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022·7.8
The Son
2022·6.7
Armageddon Time
2022·6.4
Where Are You
2022·1.6
Zero Contact
2022·4.0
Parkinson at 50
2021·10.0
The Virtuoso
2021·5.9
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
2021·4.5
The Father
2020·8.1
Elyse
2020·5.1
The Two Popes
2019·7.5
Love, Antosha
2019·7.4
King Lear
2018·6.1
Nothing Like a Dame
2018·6.8
Spielberg
2017·7.5
Thor: Ragnarok
2017·7.6
Transformers: The Last Knight
2017·6.1
Collide
2016·5.6
Misconduct
2016·5.6
The Dresser
2015·6.2
Blackway
2015·5.3
Solace
2015·6.4
Kidnapping Mr. Heineken
2015·6.0
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
2014·4.8
Noah
2014·5.7
Thor: The Dark World
2013·6.5
Hello: A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips
2013·8.3
RED 2
2013·6.5
Hitchcock
2012·6.6
Marvel Studios: Building a Cinematic Universe
2012·6.0
360
2012·5.7
Thor: From Asgard to Earth
2011·7.0
Thor
2011·6.8
The Rite
2011·6.1
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
2010·5.9
Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs
2010·7.3
The Third Rule
2010·6.0
The Wolfman
2010·5.9
Bare Knuckles
2010·3.1
Hannibal Lecter, l'icône du mal par excellence
2010·5.5
The City of Your Final Destination
2009·5.7
Dreaming Slipstream Dream
2008·0.0
Beowulf
2007·5.9
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
2007·8.0
Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends
2007·4.8
Shortcut to Happiness
2007·5.6
Fracture
2007·7.3
Slipstream
2007·4.9
All the King's Men
2006·5.8
Bobby
2006·6.4
A Tribute To Ismail Merchant
2005·10.0
The World's Fastest Indian
2005·7.7
Proof
2005·6.3
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005·10.0
The True Story of Hannibal
2005·7.0
Alexander
2004·6.0
The Human Stain
2003·6.0
A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'
2003·7.8
Red Dragon
2002·7.0
Bad Company
2002·5.5
Love & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day'
2001·6.5
Hearts in Atlantis
2001·6.8
Unmasking Zorro
2001·6.0
Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
2001·7.3
Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
2001·7.1
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
2001·6.3
Hannibal
2001·6.8
Blind Loyalty, Hollow Honor: England's Fatal Flaw
2001·7.0
The Remains of the Day: The Filmmaker's Journey
2001·6.5
The Many Faces of Zorro
2000·4.4
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
2000·6.8
Mission: Impossible II
2000·6.1
Titus
1999·6.4
Siegfried & Roy: The Magic Box
1999·6.5
Little Secret
1999·0.0
Instinct
1999·6.5
Meet Joe Black
1998·7.4
Junket Whore
1998·5.0
The Mask of Zorro
1998·6.6
Amistad
1997·7.0
The Edge
1997·6.9
The Lost Children of Berlin
1997·6.5
Surviving Picasso
1996·5.8
August
1996·4.3
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
1996·6.4
Nixon
1995·6.8
Legends of the Fall
1994·7.4
The Road to Wellville
1994·5.6
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
1994·6.5
Shadowlands
1993·6.9
The Remains of the Day
1993·7.4
The Innocent
1993·6.1
The Trial
1993·6.0
Chaplin
1992·7.4
Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man, The Myth, The Movies
1992·6.4
Bram Stoker's Dracula
1992·7.5
Earth and the American Dream
1992·6.7
Howards End
1992·7.0
Spotswood
1992·5.4
Freejack
1992·5.5
The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
1991·6.0
One Man’s War
1991·7.2
The Silence of the Lambs
1991·8.3
Desperate Hours
1990·5.4
A Chorus of Disapproval
1989·5.4
Heartland
1989·6.5
Faroe Islands
1989·0.0
The Tenth Man
1988·6.7
Across the Lake
1988·6.0
The Dawning
1988·5.9
84 Charing Cross Road
1987·7.2
Blunt
1987·5.0
The Good Father
1985·5.6
Guilty Conscience
1985·6.0
Arch of Triumph
1984·5.2
The Bounty
1984·6.8
Little Eyolf
1982·7.0
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1982·5.8
Othello
1981·6.7
The Bunker
1981·6.3
A Change of Seasons
1980·5.7
The Elephant Man
1980·8.0
Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure
1979·6.7
Magic
1978·6.8
International Velvet
1978·7.4
A Bridge Too Far
1977·7.2
Audrey Rose
1977·5.7
Victory at Entebbe
1976·5.1
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
1976·6.5
Dark Victory
1976·0.0
All Creatures Great and Small
1975·6.6
The Girl from Petrovka
1974·5.3
Juggernaut
1974·6.3
The Arcata Promise
1974·0.0
The Childhood Friend
1974·7.5
The Middle-of-the-Road Roadshow for All the Family
1973·0.0
A Doll's House
1973·5.4
Young Winston
1972·6.2
Poet Game
1972·0.0
When Eight Bells Toll
1971·5.7
Hearts and Flowers
1970·6.5
Uncle Vanya
1970·8.0
The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens
1970·8.0
The Three Sisters
1970·6.5
The Looking Glass War
1970·5.6
Hamlet
1969·5.8
Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt
1969·0.0
The Lion in Winter
1968·7.4
Red, White, and Zero
1968·5.0
The White Bus
1967·6.0