Anthony-Hopkins

Name: Anthony Hopkins

Birth Name: Philip Anthony Hopkins

Birthdate: December 13, 1937

Birthplace: Margam, Wales

Known for his almost obsessive preparation for his roles and ability to mimic almost any accent, Anthony Hopkins was successful on stage and in British productions for many years before hitting it big in America. In 1991, he became a household name — and an Oscar winner — thanks to his sinister turn as serial killer Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs (a character he would reprise twice). Other roles of note include his hammy Professor Van Helsing in Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula, the repressed butler in Merchant/Ivory's The Remains of the Day, President John Quincy Adams in Steven Spieberg's Amistad, and the original Zorro in The Mask Of Zorro. In 1993, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.


1. He ruined his relationship with his idol, Sir Laurence Olivier, when he walked off stage in the middle of a National Theatre production of Hamlet.
2. His third wife is an antiques dealer 19 years his junior.
3. Being a poor student in school is one reason he became an actor.
4. His mother is a distant relative to the poet William Butler Yeats.
5. He is a recovered alcoholic (kicked the habit in 1975).


"The Welsh people have a talent for acting that one does not find in the English. The English lack heart."
— London Evening Standard , Sept. 22, 2005


Wife: Stella Arroyave, married March 1, 2003
Wife: Jennifer Lynton, married January 1973, divorced April 2002
Wife: Petronella Barker, actress, married September 1967, divorced 1972
Daughter: (with Barker) Abigail, actress, born August 1968
Son: (with Lynton) James, born 1995

1998: Academy Award nomination: Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Amistad; Golden Globe nomination: Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture, Amistad

1996: Academy Award nomination: Best Actor in a Leading Role, Nixon; Golden Globe nomination: Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture (Drama), Nixon

1994: Academy Award nomination: Best Actor in a Leading Role, The Remains of the Day; Golden Globe nomination: Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture (Drama), The Remains of the Day

1992: Academy Award: Best Actor in a Leading Role, The Silence of the Lambs; Golden Globe nomination: Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture (Drama), The Silence of the Lambs

1989: Golden Globe nomination: Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV, The Tenth Man

1979: Golden Globe nomination: Best Motion Picture Actor (Drama), Magic

FILMS

Beowulf - (2007 ) - Actor
Fracture - (2007) - Actor
Shortcut to Happiness - (2007) - Actor
Slipstream - (2007) - Director, Actor, Screenwriter, Composer
All the King's Men - (2006) - Actor
Bobby - (2006) - Actor
The World's Fastest Indian - (2005) - Actor
Proof - (2005) - Actor
Alexander - (2004) - Actor
The Human Stain - (2003) - Actor
Bad Company - (2002) - Actor
Red Dragon - (2002) - Actor
Red Dragon/End of Days - (2002) - Actor
Hannibal - (2001) - Actor
Boogeymen - The Killer Compilation - (2001) - Featured
Hearts in Atlantis - (2001) - Actor
Mission: Impossible II - (2000) - Actor
Instinct - (1999) - Actor
Titus - (1999) - Actor
13th Warrior, The/ Instinct - (1999) - Actor
The Mask of Zorro - (1998) - Actor
Meet Joe Black - (1998) - Actor
The Edge - (1997) - Actor
Amistad - (1997) - Actor
Surviving Picasso - (1996) - Actor
The Innocent - (1995) - Actor
Nixon - (1995) - Actor
August - (1995) - Director, Actor
The Road to Wellville - (1994) - Actor
Legends of the Fall - (1994) - Actor
The Trial - (1993) - Actor
Shadowlands - (1993) - Actor
Remains of the Day - (1993) - Actor
Freejack - (1992) - Actor
Howards End - (1992) - Actor
Bram Stoker's Dracula - (1992) - Actor
The Efficiency Expert - (1992) - Actor
Chaplin - (1992) - Actor
Barbara Taylor Bradford's To Be the Best - (1991) - Actor
The Silence of the Lambs - (1991) - Actor
The Desperate Hours - (1990) - Actor
One Man's War - (1990) - Actor
A Chorus of Disapproval - (1989) - Actor
Great Expectations - (1989) - Actor
The Dawning - (1988) - Actor
The Tenth Man - (1988) - Actor
84 Charing Cross Road - (1986) - Actor
The Good Father - (1985) - Actor
Mussolini and I - (1985) - Actor
Guilty Conscience - (1985) - Actor
Arch of Triumph - (1985) - Actor
The Bounty - (1984) - Actor
Blunt: The Fourth Man - (1984) - Actor
Guilty Conscience/Blunt: The Fourth Man - (1984) - Actor
Strangers & Brothers - (1984) - Actor
A Woman of Substance Trilogy - (1984) - Actor
A Married Man - (1983) - Actor
Hunchback - (1982) - Actor
The Bunker - (1981) - Actor
A Change of Seasons - (1980) - Actor
The Elephant Man - (1980) - Actor
International Velvet - (1978) - Actor
Magic - (1978) - Actor
Audrey Rose - (1977) - Actor
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case - (1976) - Actor
Victory at Entebbe - (1976) - Actor
The Girl From Petrovka - (1974) - Actor
Juggernaut - (1974) - Actor
QB VII - (1974) - Actor
All Creatures Great and Small - (1974) - Actor
A Doll's House - (1973) - Actor
Hamlet - (1969) - Actor
The Looking Glass War - (1969) - Actor
The Lion in Winter - (1968) - Actor
Lion in Winter, The - 25th Anniversary Edition - (1968) - Actor