Anthony Hopkins biography
Anthony Hopkins is a Welsh actor (born 1937), born on 31 December 1937 in Port Talbot.
Anthony Hopkins's screen career began in 1965 with The Man in Room 17, playing Dr. Harding.
Anthony Hopkins has appeared in 98 films and 45 television or streaming titles.
The most recent films are Locked (2025), Mary (2024), Rebel Moon , Part Two: The Scargiver (2024).
Honours include Donostia Award, BAFTA Fellowship and Academy Award for Best Actor.
Coming up next: Maserati: The Brothers (2026), Wife & Dog (2027), Eyes in the Trees.
- Also known as
- Sir Anthony Philip Hopkins
- Born
- 31 December 1937 (age 88)
- Birthplace
- Port Talbot
- Work
- Film director, Screenwriter, Film producer, Composer, Stage actor
- Film industries
- Hollywood and beyond
- Years active
- 1960 to present
- Awards
- Donostia Award
- BAFTA Fellowship
- Academy Award for Best Actor
- Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award
- David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actor
- London Film Critics Circle Award for Actor of the Year
Anthony Hopkins filmography
102 films and 45 television or streaming titles, newest first.
Films
| Year | Title | Role | Where | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Housekeeper | Lord DeWithers | Filming | ||
| Eyes in the Trees | Dr. Addis | Post-production | ||
| 2027 | Wife & Dog | Post-production | ||
| 2026 | Maserati: The Brothers | Luca Antonelli | Post-production | |
| 2025 | Locked | William | ||
| 2024 | Mary | King Herod | ||
| 2024 | Rebel Moon , Part Two: The Scargiver | Jimmy (voice) | ||
| 2023 | Rebel Moon , Part One: A Child of Fire | Jimmy (voice) | ||
| 2023 | One Life | Nicholas Winton | ||
| 2023 | Freud's Last Session | Sigmund Freud | ||
| 2022 | The Son | Anthony Miller | ||
| 2022 | Armageddon Time | Aaron Rabinowitz | ||
| 2021 | The Virtuoso | The Mentor | ||
| 2021 | Zero Contact | Finley Hart | ||
| 2020 | The Father | Anthony Evans | ||
| 2020 | Elyse | Dr. Philip Lewis | Also producer and composer | |
| 2019 | The Two Popes | Pope Benedict XVI | ||
| 2019 | Where Are You | Thomas Yorke | ||
| 2017 | Transformers: The Last Knight | Sir Edmund Burton | ||
| 2017 | Thor: Ragnarok | Odin | ||
| 2016 | Misconduct | Arthur Denning | ||
| 2016 | Collide | Hagen Kahl | ||
| 2015 | Blackway | Lester | Also producer | |
| 2015 | Solace | John Clancy | Also executive producer | |
| 2015 | Kidnapping Freddy Heineken | Freddy Heineken |
Show all 102 films
| Year | Title | Role | Where | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Noah | Methuselah | ||
| 2013 | Thor: The Dark World | Odin | ||
| 2013 | Red 2 | Edward Bailey | ||
| 2012 | Hitchcock | Alfred Hitchcock | ||
| 2011 | 360 | John | ||
| 2011 | Thor | Odin | ||
| 2011 | The Rite | Father Lucas | ||
| 2010 | You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger | Alfie Shepridge | ||
| 2010 | The Wolfman | Sir John Talbot | ||
| 2010 | The Third Rule | Fabian Hogarth | Short film | |
| 2009 | The City of Your Final Destination | Adam Gund | ||
| 2008 | Where I Stand: The Hank Greenspun Story | Narrator (voice) | Documentary | |
| 2008 | Immutable Dream of Snow Lion | , N/a | Short film | |
| 2007 | Slipstream | Felix Bonhoeffer | Also director and writer | |
| 2007 | Fracture | Theodore "Ted" Crawford | ||
| 2007 | Beowulf | Hrothgar | Motion capture | |
| 2007 | Shortcut to Happiness | Daniel Webster | ||
| 2006 | Bobby | John | Also executive producer | |
| 2006 | All the King's Men | Judge Irwin | ||
| 2005 | Proof | Robert | ||
| 2005 | The World's Fastest Indian | Burt Munro | ||
| 2004 | Alexander | Ptolemy I Soter | ||
| 2003 | The Human Stain | Coleman Silk | ||
| 2002 | Bad Company | Officer Gaylord Oakes | ||
| 2002 | Red Dragon | Dr. Hannibal Lecter | ||
| 2001 | Hannibal | Dr. Hannibal Lecter | ||
| 2001 | Hearts in Atlantis | Ted Brautigan | ||
| 2000 | Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas | English | ||
| 2000 | Mission: Impossible 2 | Commander Swanbeck | Uncredited cameo | |
| 2000 | How the Grinch Stole Christmas | The Narrator (voice) | ||
| 1999 | Instinct | Dr. Ethan Powell | ||
| 1999 | Titus | Titus Andronicus | ||
| 1999 | Siegfried & Roy: The Magic Box | Narrator (voice) | ||
| 1998 | Meet Joe Black | William Parrish | ||
| 1998 | The Mask of Zorro | Don Diego de la Vega / Zorro | ||
| 1998 | Junket Whore | English | ||
| 1997 | The Edge | Charles Morse | ||
| 1997 | Amistad | John Quincy Adams | ||
| 1996 | Surviving Picasso | Pablo Picasso | ||
| 1996 | August | Ieuan Davies | Also director | |
| 1995 | Nixon | Richard Nixon | ||
| 1994 | Legends of the Fall | Col. William Ludlow | ||
| 1994 | The Road to Wellville | Dr. John Harvey Kellogg | ||
| 1994 | A Century of Cinema | English | ||
| 1993 | The Trial | The Priest | ||
| 1993 | The Remains of the Day | James Stevens | ||
| 1993 | The Innocent | Bob Glass | ||
| 1993 | Shadowlands | C. S. "Jack" Lewis | ||
| 1992 | Chaplin | George Hayden | ||
| 1992 | Bram Stoker's Dracula | Professor Abraham Van Helsing | ||
| 1992 | Spotswood | Errol Wallace | ||
| 1992 | Howards End | Henry J. Wilcox | ||
| 1992 | Freejack | Ian McCandless | ||
| 1991 | The Silence of the Lambs | Dr. Hannibal Lecter | ||
| 1990 | Desperate Hours | Tim Cornell | ||
| 1990 | Dylan Thomas: Return Journey | Introducer | Also director | |
| 1989 | A Chorus of Disapproval | Dafydd Ap Llewellyn | ||
| 1988 | The Dawning | Maj. Angus "Cassuis" Barry | ||
| 1987 | 84 Charing Cross Road | Frank Doel | ||
| 1985 | The Good Father | Bill Hooper | ||
| 1984 | The Bounty | Lt. William Bligh | ||
| 1980 | The Elephant Man | Frederick Treves | ||
| 1980 | A Change of Seasons | Adam Evans | ||
| 1978 | Magic | Charles "Corky" Withers / Voice of Fats | ||
| 1978 | International Velvet | Captain Johnson | ||
| 1977 | A Bridge Too Far | Lieutenant Colonel Frost | ||
| 1977 | Audrey Rose | Elliot Hoover | ||
| 1974 | Juggernaut | Supt. John McCleod | ||
| 1974 | The Girl from Petrovka | Kostya | ||
| 1973 | A Doll's House | Torvald Helmer | ||
| 1972 | Young Winston | David Lloyd George | ||
| 1971 | When Eight Bells Toll | Philip Calvert | ||
| 1970 | The Looking Glass War | Avery | ||
| 1970 | Three Sisters | English | ||
| 1969 | Hamlet | Claudius | ||
| 1968 | The Lion in Winter | Richard | ||
| 1967 | The White Bus | Brechtian | Short film |
Television and streaming
| Year | Title | Role | Where | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Those About to Die | Vespasian | 7 episodes | |
| 2021 | Mythic Quest | Narrator (voice) | Episode: "Everlight" | |
| 2018 | King Lear | Lear | Television film | |
| 2016 | Westworld | Dr. Robert Ford | 17 episodes | |
| 2015 | The Dresser | Sir | Television film | |
| 2007 | American Masters | Narrator (voice) | Episode: "Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends" | |
| 1993 | Selected Exits | Gwyn Thomas | Television film | |
| 1991 | One Man's War | Joel Filártiga | Television film | |
| 1991 | To Be the Best | Jack Figg | Television film | |
| 1989 | Heartland | Jack | The Play on One BBC series episode | |
| 1989 | Great Expectations | Abel Magwitch | 4 episodes | |
| 1988 | The Tenth Man | Jean Louis Chavel | Television film | |
| 1988 | Across the Lake | Donald Campbell | Television film | |
| 1987 | Screen Two | Guy Burgess / Unnamed role | 2 episodes | |
| 1985 | Mussolini and I | Count Galeazzo Ciano | Television film | |
| 1985 | Guilty Conscience | Arthur Jamison | Television film | |
| 1985 | Hollywood Wives | Neil Gray | 3 episodes | |
| 1984 | Arch of Triumph | Dr. Ravic | Television film | |
| 1984 | Strangers and Brothers | Roger Quaife | 2 episodes | |
| 1983 | A Married Man | John Strickland | 4 episodes | |
| 1982 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Quasimodo | Television film | |
| 1981 | Othello | Othello | Television film | |
| 1981 | The Bunker | Adolf Hitler | Television film | |
| 1981 | Peter and Paul | Paul of Tarsus | Television film | |
| 1981 | Little Eyolf | Afred Allmers | Television play |
Show all 45 titles
| Year | Title | Role | Where | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure | Captain Christopher Jones | Television film | |
| 1976 | Victory at Entebbe | Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin | Television film | |
| 1976 | The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case | Bruno Hauptmann | Television film | |
| 1976 | Dark Victory | Dr. Michael Grant | Television film | |
| 1975 | All Creatures Great and Small | Siegfried Farnon | Television film | |
| 1974 | QB VII | Dr. Adam Kelno | 3 episodes | |
| 1974 | Possessions | Dando | Television film | |
| 1973 | The Edwardians | David Lloyd George | Television miniseries; episode "Lloyd George" | |
| 1973 | Black and Blue | Hi | ||
| 1972 | War and Peace | Pierre Bezukhov | 17 episodes | |
| 1972 | Poet Game | Hugh Sanders | Television film | |
| 1971 | Great Performances | Theo Gunge | Episode: "The Arcata Promise" | |
| 1970 | Danton | Georges Danton | Television film | |
| 1970 | The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens | Charles Dickens | Television film | |
| 1970 | Play of the Month | Astrov | Episode: "Uncle Vanya" | |
| 1970 | Play for Today | Bob / Alexander Tashkov | 2 episodes | |
| 1969 | ITV Sunday Night Drama | Arnold | Episode: "A Walk Through the Forest" | |
| 1969 | Department S | Greg Halliday | Episode: "A Small War of Nerves" | |
| 1967 | A Flea in Her Ear | Etienne Plucheux | Television film | |
| 1965 | The Man in Room 17 | Dr. Harding | Episode: "A Minor Operation" |