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Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins, CBE (born 31 December 1937), best known as Anthony Hopkins, is a Welsh actor of film, stage and television. Considered to be one of the greatest living actors, Hopkins is perhaps best known for his portrayal of cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs, for which he received the Academy Award for Best Actor, its sequel Hannibal, and its prequel Red Dragon. 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 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, a Golden Globe and a Cecil B. DeMille 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.

This book is your ultimate resource for Anthony Hopkins. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, photos, and much more.

In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about his Early life, Career and Personal life right away: A Flea in Her Ear, The White Bus, The Lion in Winter (1968 film), The Looking Glass War, Hamlet (1969 film), Department S, The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens, When Eight Bells Toll (1971 film), Young Winston, War and Peace (TV series), A Doll's House (1973 Garland film), The Girl from Petrovka, QB VII, Juggernaut (film), All Creatures Great and Small (film), Dark Victory, Victory at Entebbe, A Bridge Too Far (1977 film), Audrey Rose (film), Magic (1978 film), International Velvet (film), The Elephant Man (film), A Change of Seasons (film), The Bunker (1981 film), Peter and Paul, Othello (1981 TV film), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1982 film), The Bounty, Arch of Triumph (tele-movie), Guilty Conscience (film), Mussolini and I, The Good Father, 84 Charing Cross Road (film), The Dawning, A Chorus of Disapproval, The Tenth Man, Great Expectations (1989 film), Desperate Hours, The Silence of the Lambs (film), Hannibal Lecter, Freejack, Spotswood (film), Howards End (film), Dracula (1992 film), Chaplin (film), The Innocent (1993 film), The Remains of the Day (film), Shadowlands (film), The Road to Wellville (film), Legends of the Fall, Nixon (film), Surviving Picasso, The Edge (1997 film), Amistad (1997 film), The Mask of Zorro, Meet Joe Black, Instinct (film), Titus (film), Mission: Impossible II, The Grinch (film), Hannibal (film), Hearts in Atlantis (film), Bad Company (2002 film), Red Dragon (film), The Human Stain (film), Alexander (film), Proof (2005 film), The World's Fastest Indian, Bobby (2006 film), All the King's Men (2006 film), The Devil and Daniel Webster (2001 film), Slipstream (2007 film), Fracture (2007 film), Beowulf (2007 film), The City of Your Final Destination, The Wolfman (2010 film), You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, Thor (film), The Rite (2011 film)

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Articles Anthony Hopkins A Flea in Her Ear The White Bus The Lion in Winter (1968 film) The Looking Glass War Hamlet (1969 film)

Department S The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens When Eight Bells Toll (1971 film) Young Winston War and Peace (TV series) A Doll's House (1973 Garland film) The Girl from Petrovka QB VII Juggernaut (film)

All Creatures Great and Small (film) Dark Victory Victory at Entebbe A Bridge Too Far (1977 film) Audrey Rose (film) Magic (1978 film) International Velvet (film) The Elephant Man (film) A Change of Seasons (film) The Bunker (1981 film) Peter and Paul Othello (1981 TV film) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1982 film) The Bounty Arch of Triumph (tele-movie) Guilty Conscience (film) Mussolini and I The Good Father 84 Charing Cross Road (film)

1 11 15 16 20 23 24 28 29 32 34 37 39 40 43 46 48 52 54 65 67 71 73 78 81 84 86 118 121 128 129 130 132 134

The Dawning A Chorus of Disapproval The Tenth Man Great Expectations (1989 film) Desperate Hours The Silence of the Lambs (film) Hannibal Lecter Freejack Spotswood (film) Howards End (film) Dracula (1992 film) Chaplin (film) The Innocent (1993 film) The Remains of the Day (film) Shadowlands (film) The Road to Wellville (film) Legends of the Fall Nixon (film) Surviving Picasso The Edge (1997 film) Amistad (1997 film) The Mask of Zorro Meet Joe Black Instinct (film) Titus (film) Mission: Impossible II

The Grinch (film)

Hannibal (film) Hearts in Atlantis (film) Bad Company (2002 film) Red Dragon (film) The Human Stain (film) Alexander (film) Proof (2005 film) The World's Fastest Indian Bobby (2006 film) All the King's Men (2006 film) The Devil and Daniel Webster (2001 film)

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232 237 242 255 258 261 264 268 277 279 283 288 293

Slipstream (2007 film) Fracture (2007 film) Beowulf (2007 film) The City of Your Final Destination The Wolfman (2010 film) You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger Thor (film) The Rite (2011 film)

References Article Sources and Contributors Image Sources, Licenses and Contributors

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Anthony Hopkins

Sir Anthony Hopkins CBE

Hopkins at the Tuscan Sun Festival, Cortona, 2009 BornPhilip Anthony Hopkins31 December 1937Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom OccupationActor Years active1967–present SpousePetronella Barker (1967–1972; divorced) Jennifer Lynton (1973–2002; divorced) Stella Arroyave (2003–present)

SirPhilip Anthony Hopkins, CBE (born 31 December 1937), best known asAnthony Hopkins, is a Welsh actor of [1] [2] [3] film, stage and television. Considered to be one of the greatest living actors, Hopkins is perhaps best known for his portrayal of cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter inThe Silence of the Lambs, for which he received the Academy Award for Best Actor, its sequelHannibal, and its prequelRed Dragon. Other prominent film credits includeThe Lion in Winter,Magic,The Elephant Man,84 Charing Cross Road,Dracula,Legends of the Fall,The Remains of the Day,Amistad,NixonandFracture. Hopkins was born and brought up in Wales. Retaining his British [4] 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, a Golden Globe and a Cecil B. DeMille 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.

Early life Hopkins was born in Margam, Port Talbot, Wales, the son of Muriel Anne (née Yeats) and Richard Arthur Hopkins, [5] a baker. His schooldays were unproductive; he found that he would rather immerse himself in art, such as painting and drawing or playing the piano, than attend to his studies. In 1949, to instill discipline, his parents insisted he attend Jones' West Monmouth Boys' School in Pontypool, Wales. He remained there for five terms and was then [6] educated at Cowbridge Grammar School in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. Hopkins was influenced and encouraged to become an actor by Welsh compatriot Richard Burton (who was also Neath Port Talbot-born), whom he met briefly at the age of 15. To that end, he enrolled at the Royal Welsh College

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[7] of Music & Drama in Cardiff, Wales, from which he graduated in 1957. After two years in the British Army doing [8] his national service, he then moved to London where he trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

Career

Roles In 1965, after several years in repertory, he was spotted by Sir Laurence Olivier, who invited him to join the Royal [7] National Theatre. Hopkins became Olivier's understudy, and filled in when Olivier was struck with appendicitis during a production of August Strindberg'sThe Dance of Death. Olivier later noted in his memoir,Confessions of an Actor, that, "A new young actor in the company of exceptional promise named Anthony Hopkins was understudying [9] me and walked away with the part of Edgar like a cat with a mouse between its teeth." Despite his success at the National, Hopkins tired of repeating the same roles nightly and yearned to be in films. He made his small-screen debut in a 1967 BBC broadcast ofA Flea in Her Ear. In 1968, he got his break inThe Lion in Winterplaying Richard I, along with Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, and future James Bond star Timothy Dalton, who played Philip II of France. Although Hopkins continued in theatre (most notably at the National Theatre as Lambert Le Roux inPravdaby David Hare and Howard Brenton and as Antony inAntony and Cleopatraopposite Judi Dench as well as in the Broadway production of Peter Shaffer'sEquus, directed by John Dexter) he gradually moved away from it to become more established as a television and film actor. His Pierre Bezukhov for the BBC War and Peace (1972) was particularly memorable. He has since gone on to enjoy a long career, winning many plaudits and awards for his performances. Hopkins was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 1987, and a Knight Bachelor in [10] [11] [12] 1993. In 1996, Hopkins was awarded an honorary fellowship from the University of Wales, Lampeter. Hopkins has stated that his role as Burt Munro, whom he portrayed in his 2005 filmThe World's Fastest Indian, was his favourite. He also asserted that Munro was the easiest role that he had played because both men have a similar [13] outlook on life. [14] In 2006, Hopkins was the recipient of the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement. In [15] 2008, he received the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award. [16] Hopkins portrays Odin, the father of Thor, in the upcoming film adaptation of Marvel Comics'Thor24. On February 2010 it was announced that Hopkins had been cast in the upcoming supernatural thrillerThe Rite. He will [17] play a priest who is "an expert in exorcisms and whose methods are not necessarily traditional".

Acting style

Hopkins is renowned for his preparation for roles. He has indicated in interviews that once he has committed to a project, he will go over his lines as many times as is needed (sometimes upwards of 200) until the lines sound natural to him, so that he can "do it without thinking". This leads to an almost casual style of delivery that belies the amount of groundwork done beforehand. While it can allow for some careful improvisation, it has also brought him into conflict with the occasional director who departs from the script, or demands what the actor views as an excessive number of takes. Hopkins has stated that after he is finished with a scene, he simply discards the lines, not remembering them later on. This is unlike others who usually remember their lines

Isabella Rossellini and Anthony Hopkins in Berlin to shoot scenes forThe Innocent(1993).

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[18] from a film even years later. Richard Attenborough, who has directed Hopkins on five occasions, found himself going to great lengths during the filming ofShadowlands(1993) to accommodate the differing approaches of his two stars (Hopkins and Debra Winger), who shared many scenes. Whereas Hopkins, preferring the spontaneity of a fresh take, liked to keep rehearsals to a minimum, Winger rehearsed continuously. To allow for this, Attenborough stood in for Hopkins during Winger's rehearsals, only bringing him in for the last one before a take. The director praised Hopkins for "this extraordinary ability to make you believe when you hear him that it is the very first time he has [9] ever said that line. It's an incredible gift." Renowned for his ability to remember lines, Hopkins keeps his memory supple by learning things by heart such as poetry, and Shakespeare. In Steven Spielberg'sAmistad, Hopkins astounded crew with his memorisation of a seven-page courtroom speech, delivering it in one go. An overawed Spielberg couldn't bring himself to call him [8] Tony, and insisted on addressing him as Sir Anthony throughout the shoot. In addition, Hopkins is a gifted mimic, adept at turning his native Welsh accent into whatever is required by a character. He duplicated the voice of his late mentor, Laurence Olivier, for additional scenes inSpartacusin its 1991 restoration. His interview on the 1998 relaunch edition of the British TV talk showParkinsonfeatured an impersonation of comedian Tommy Cooper. Hopkins has said acting "like a submarine" has helped him to deliver credible performances in his thriller movies. He said, "It's very difficult for an actor to avoid, you want to show a bit. [19] But I think the less one shows the better."

Hannibal Lecter Perhaps Hopkins' most famous role is as the cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter inThe Silence of the Lambs, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1991, opposite Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling, who won for Best Actress. The film won Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. It is one of the shortest lead [6] performances to win an Oscar, as Hopkins only appears on screen for little over 16 minutes. Hopkins reprised his role as Lecter twice (Hannibalin 2001,Red Dragonin 2002). His original portrayal of the character inThe Silence [20] of the Lambshas been labelled by the American Film Institute as the number-one film villain. At the time he was offered the role, Hopkins was making a return to the London stage, performing inM. Butterfly. He had come back to Britain after living for a number of years in Hollywood, having all but given up on a career there, saying, "Well that part of my life's over; it's a chapter closed. I suppose I'll just have to settle for being a respectable actor poncing [9] around the West End and doing respectable BBC work for the rest of my life." Hopkins played the iconic villain in adaptations of the first three of the Lecter novels by Thomas Harris. The author was reportedly very pleased with Hopkins' portrayal of his antagonist. However, Hopkins stated thatRed Dragon would feature his final performance as the character, and that he would not reprise even a narrative role in the latest addition to the series,Hannibal Rising.

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Personal life

As of 2007, Hopkins resides in Los Angeles. He had moved to the United States once before during the 1970s to pursue his film career, but returned to London in the late 1980s. However, he decided to return to the U.S. following his 1990s success. Retaining his British citizenship, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen on 12 April 2000, and [12] celebrated with a 3,000-mile road trip across the country.

Hopkins has been married three times. His first two wives were Petronella Barker (1967–1972) and Jennifer Lynton (1973–2002). He is now married to Colombian-born Stella Arroyave. He has a daughter from his first marriage, Abigail Hopkins (b. 20 August 1968), who is an actress and singer.

He has offered his support to various charities and appeals, notably becoming President of the National Trust's Snowdonia Appeal, raising funds for the preservation of the Snowdonia National Park in North Hopkins at the 2010 Toronto International Film Wales, and to aid the Trust's efforts to purchase parts of Snowdon. A Festival. book celebrating these efforts,Anthony Hopkins' Snowdonia,was published together with Graham Nobles. Hopkins has been a patron of the YMCA centre in his hometown of Port Talbot, South Wales for more than 20 years, having first joined the [21] YMCA in the 1950s. Hopkins also takes time to support other various philanthropic groups. He was a Guest of Honour at a Gala Fundraiser for Women in Recovery, Inc., a Venice, California-based non-profit organization offering rehabilitation assistance to women in recovery from substance abuse. Although he resides in Malibu, California he is also a volunteer teacher at the Ruskin School of Acting in Santa Monica, California. [22] Hopkins has attended 12-Step meetings for alcohol addiction, and suddenly stopped drinking in 1975. As stated to TMZ in October 2010, Hopkins is a vegetarian. In 2008, he embarked on a weight loss program, and by 2010, he [23] had lost 80 pounds. Hopkins is a prominent member of environmental protection group Greenpeace and as of early 2008 featured in a [24] television advertisement campaign, voicing concerns about Japan's continuing annual whale hunt. Hopkins has been a patron of RAPt (Rehabilitation for Addicted Prisoners Trust) since its early days and helped open their first intensive drug and alcohol rehabilitation unit at Downview (HM Prison) in 1992. He is an admirer of the comedian Tommy Cooper. On 23 February 2008, as patron of the Tommy Cooper Society, the actor unveiled a commemorative statue in the entertainer's home town of Caerphilly, South Wales. For the [25] ceremony, Hopkins donned Cooper's trademark fez and performed a comic routine.

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Other work Hopkins is a talented pianist. In 1986, he released a single called "Distant Star". It peaked at #75 in the UK charts. In [26] 2007, he announced he would retire temporarily from the screen to tour around the world. Hopkins has also written music for the concert hall, in collaboration with Stephen Barton as orchestrator. These compositions include The Masque of Time, given its world premiere with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in October 2008, andSchizoid [27] Salsa. In 1990, Hopkins directed " Dylan Thomas: Return Journey" which was his directing debut for the screen. In 1996, Hopkins directedAugust, an adaptation of Chekhov'sUncle Vanyaset in Wales. His first screenplay, an experimental drama calledSlipstream, which he also directed and scored, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2007. Hopkins is a fan of the BBC sitcomOnly Fools and Horses, and once remarked in an interview how he would love to appear in the series. Writer John Sullivan saw the interview, and with Hopkins in mind created the character Danny Driscoll, a local villain. However, filming of the new series coincided with the filming ofThe Silence of the [28] Lambs, making Hopkins unavailable. The role instead went to his friend Roy Marsden.

Hopkins has played many famous historical and fictional characters including:

Richard Lionheart (The Lion in Winter, 1968) Charles Dickens (The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens, 1970)

Pierre Bezukhov (War and Peace, 1972) David Lloyd George (Young Winston, 1972) Yitzak Rabin (Victory at Entebbe, 1976) Bruno Hauptmann (The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case, 1976) John Frost (A Bridge Too Far, 1977) Frederick Treves (The Elephant Man, 1980) Adolf Hitler (The Bunker, 1981) Othello (Othello, 1981) Paul the Apostle (Peter and Paul, 1981) Quasimodo (The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1982) William Bligh (The Bounty, 1984) Count Galeazzo Ciano (Mussolini and I, 1985) Donald Campbell (Across the Lake, 1988) Dr. Hannibal Lecter (The Silence of the Lambs, 1991;Hannibal, 2001;Red Dragon, 2002)

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Abraham Van Helsing (Bram Stoker's Dracula, 1992) Marcus Crassus (Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of Spartacus, 1992) C. S. Lewis (Shadowlands, 1993) Dr. John Harvey Kellogg (The Road to Wellville, 1994) Richard Nixon (Nixon, 1995) Pablo Picasso (Surviving Picasso, 1996) John Quincy Adams (Amistad, 1997) Charles Morse (The Edge, 1997) Don Diego de la Vega/Zorro (The Mask of Zorro, 1998) William Parrish (Meet Joe Black, 1998) Titus Andronicus (Titus, 1999) Ptolemy I Soter (Alexander, 2004) Burt Munro (The World's Fastest Indian, 2005) Hrothgar (Beowulf, 2007) Sir John Talbot (The Wolfman, 2010) Odin (Thor, 2011)

Awards Besides his win forThe Silence of the Lambs, Hopkins has been Oscar-nominated forThe Remains of the Day (1993),Nixon(1995) andAmistad(1997). Hopkins won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in 1973 for his performance as Pierre Bezukhov in the BBC's production ofWar and Peace, and additionally forThe Silence of the LambsandShadowlands. He received nominations in the same category forMagicandThe Remains of the Dayand as Best Supporting Actor forThe Lion in Winter.

He won Emmy Awards for his roles inThe Lindbergh Kidnapping CaseandThe Bunker, and was Emmy-nominated [29] forThe Hunchback of Notre DameandGreat Expectationswon the directing and the acting award, both for. He Slipstream, at Switzerland's Locarno International Film Festival. Hopkins became a Fellow of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) at the Orange British [30] Academy Film Awards in February 2008.

Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor–Motion Picture Drama

Audrey Rose

Hearts and Flowers

Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Actor

1979Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure

1980The Elephant Man

All Creatures Great and Small

1976Dark Victory

The Childhood Friend

Film

Television film

1971When Eight Bells Toll

A Doll's House

Capt. Jones

1972Young Winston

Department S

1969The Looking Glass War

Victory at Entebbe

1977A Bridge Too Far

Captain Johnson

Dr. Frederick Treves

TV–Play for Today

Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor–Miniseries or a Movie

Dr. Michael Grant

Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin

Philip Calvert

Anthony Hopkins

Claudius

John Avery

QB VII

Lt. Col. John D. Frost

Bruno Richard Hauptmann

Siegfried Farnon

Elliot Hoover

Dr. Adam Kelno

Greg Halliday

Torvald Helmer

Brechtian

1974The Girl from PetrovkaKostya

Pierre Bezukhov

Alexander Tashkov

Charles "Corky" Withers/Voice of Fats

David Lloyd George

Filmography

Juggernaut

War and Peace

TV–Play for Today Nominated—British Academy Television Award for Best Actor

Supt. John McCleod

British Academy Television Award for Best Actor

Charles Dickens

Bob

Etienne Plucheux

Richard

Role

1978Magic

The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case

Hamlet

1968The Lion in Winter

Adam Evans

1970The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens

[31] In 1979, Anthony Hopkins became an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music, London.

Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Notes

The White Bus

Year

1967A Flea in Her Ear

A Change of Seasons

International Velvet

Academy Award for Best Actor BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor Sant Jordi Award for Best Foreign Actor Saturn Award for Best Actor Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor–Motion Picture Drama Nominated—London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor

Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor–Miniseries or a Movie

Abel Magwitch

1983A Married Man

Guilty Conscience

1990Desperate Hours

1989Great Expectations

1991The Silence of the Lambs

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1981The Bunker

John Strickland

Arch of Triumph

Mussolini and I