Anthony Hopkins

Sir

Anthony Hopkins

CBE
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	Hopkins at the Tuscan Sun Festival, Cortona, 2009
Born	Philip Anthony Hopkins; December 31, 1937 (age 86); Margam, Port Talbot, Wales
Citizenship	British and American
Occupation	Actor; director; producer; composer; painter;
Years active	1960–present
Height	174 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Spouse(s)	Petronella Barker; (m. 1967–1972; divorced); Jennifer Lynton; (m. 1973–2002; divorced); Stella Arroyave; (m. 2003–present);

Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins CBE (born 31 December 1937) is a Welsh actor of movies, theater and television. He is very famous for many roles in movies, especially as Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs. He has won an Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, two Emmys and the Cecil B. DeMille Golden Globe Award.

In 2011, Hopkins played Odin in the MCU movie Thor. In 2019, he played Pope Benedict XVI in the Netflix movie The Two Popes.

Hopkins was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1993 for services to the arts.^[1] He gained US citizenship in 2000, whilst retaining his British citizenship. 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.^[2]

Hopkins won a fifth BAFTA Award and a second Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for The Father (2020), becoming the oldest Best Actor winner to date.^[3]

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Richard Attenborough directed Hopkins in five films, and in the 1970s described him as "unquestionably the greatest actor of his generation".
Hopkins portrayed Sir Frederick Treves in The Elephant Man (1980)
Isabella Rossellini and Hopkins in Berlin to shoot scenes for The Innocent (1993)
Lecter t-shirt worn by Hopkins in Hannibal on display at the London Film Museum
Hopkins at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival
Anthony Hopkins Centre at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff
Panorama of Snowdonia in north Wales which Hopkins described as "one of the most beautiful places in the world and Snowdon is the jewel that lies at its heart. It must be cherished and protected."

Sir Anthony Hopkins CBE
Hopkins at the Tuscan Sun Festival, Cortona, 2009
Born	Philip Anthony Hopkins (1937-12-31) December 31, 1937 (age 86) Margam, Port Talbot, Wales
Citizenship	British and American
Occupation	Actor director producer composer painter
Years active	1960–present
Height	174 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Spouse(s)	Petronella Barker (m. 1967–1972; divorced) Jennifer Lynton (m. 1973–2002; divorced) Stella Arroyave (m. 2003–present)