Welsh actor, producer, director and writer Anthony Hopkins has been acting since 1960. Between then and the 1970s, he appeared in the films The Lion in Winter (1968), Hamlet (1969), Young Winston (1972), Audrey Rose (1977) and playing Col. Frost in A Bridge Too Far (1977). In the 1980s, he had a starring role in the 1980 film The Elephant Man as Dr. Frederick Treves, opposite John Hurt and in the 1987 film 84 Charing Cross Road with Anne Bancroft.
In 1991, he was cast in the role of Dr. Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs with Jodie Foster, a role he played again in Hannibal (2001) and the prequel Red Dragon (2002). For his role in The Silence of the Lambs, he won an Academy Award and BAFTA Film Award for Best Actor. Other notable roles he had during the 1990s were Bram Stoker's Dracula with Gary Oldman (1992), Chaplin with Robert Downey Jr. (1992), The Remains of the Day with Emma Thompson (1993), Legends of the Fall with Brad Pitt (1994), The Mask of Zorro with Antonio Banderas (1998), and Meet Joe Black again with Pitt (1998).
The 2000s saw him in the films The World's Fastest Indian (2005), Fracture (2007), The Wolfman (2010), and The Rite (2011). In 2011 he co-starred with Chris Hemsworth as the Norse God Odin in the Marvel Studios film Thor (2011), then again for its 2013 sequel and the third film in 2017. Also in 2017, Hopkins played the role of Sir Edmund Burton, the last living member of the Order of the Witwiccans, in .
Hopkins has had numerous roles where he plays real life people including Richard Hauptmann in The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (1976), C. S. "Jack" Lewis in Shadowlands (1993), Dr. John Harvey Kellogg in The Road to Wellville (1994), Richard Nixon in Nixon (1995), Pablo Picasso in Surviving Picasso (1996), John Quincy Adams in Amistad (1997), Alfred Hitchcock in Hitchcock (2012), and Pope Benedict XVI in The Two Popes (2019). For his roles in Nixon and Amistad he was nominated for an Academy Award.
His television work includes appearances in QB VII (1974), All Creatures Great and Small (1975), Hollywood Wives (1985), and Great Expectations (1991). In 2015, he starred in the BBC television film The Dresser, and from 2016 to 2018, he starred in the HBO television series Westworld.
| Year | Title | Role(s) | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | Episode: "A Minor Operation" | ||||
| 1967 | Television film | ||||
| 1969 | Department S | Episode: "A Small War of Nerves" | |||
| ITV Sunday Night Drama | Arnold | Episode: "A Walk Through the Forest" | |||
| 1970 | Television film | ||||
| Danton | |||||
| Play of the Month | Astrov | Episode: "Uncle Vanya" | |||
| 1970, 1974 | Play for Today | Bob / Alexander Tashkov | 2 episodes | ||
| 1971 | Great Performances | Episode: "The Arcata Promise" | |||
| 1972–1973 | War and Peace | 17 episodes | |||
| 1972 | Poet Game | Television film | |||
| 1973 | The Edwardians | Television miniseries; episode "Lloyd George" | |||
| Black and Blue | Hi | Episode: "The Middle-of-the-Road Roadshow for All the Family" | |||
| 1974 | QB VII | 3 episodes | |||
| Possessions | Dando | Television film | |||
| 1975 | All Creatures Great and Small | ||||
| 1976 | Dark Victory | ||||
| 1976 | |||||
| 1976 | Victory at Entebbe | ||||
| 1979 | |||||
| 1981 | Television film | ||||
| Peter and Paul | Paul of Tarsus | ||||
| Othello | Othello | ||||
| 1982 | Quasimodo | ||||
| 1983 | 4 episodes | ||||
| 1984 | Strangers and Brothers | 2 episodes | |||
| Arch of Triumph | Television film | ||||
| 1985 | Hollywood Wives | 3 episodes | |||
| Guilty Conscience | Television film | ||||
| Mussolini and I | |||||
| 1987, 1993 | Screen Two | / Unnamed role | 2 episodes | ||
| 1988 | Across the Lake | Television film | |||
| 1989 | Heartland | Jack | The Play on One BBC series episode | ||
| Great Expectations | 4 episodes | ||||
| 1991 | One Man's War | Television film | |||
| To Be the Best | |||||
| 1993 | Selected Exits | ||||
| 2007 | American Masters | Narrator | Episode: "Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends" | ||
| 2015 | Sir | Television film | |||
| 2016–2018 | Westworld | 17 episodes | [48] | ||
| 2018 | King Lear | Lear | Television film | ||
| 2021 | Mythic Quest | Narrator | Episode: "Everlight" | ||
| 2024 | Those About to Die | Vespasian | 10 episodes | [49] [50] |
| Year | Title | Role(s) | Venue | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | Julius Caesar | [51] | ||
| 1966 | A Provincial Life | Boris Ivanov Blagovo | ||
| 1966 | A Flea in Her Ear | Etienne Plucheux | The Old Vic | |
| 1966 | Juno and the Paycock | Irregular Mobilizer | ||
| 1967 | The Three Sisters | Andrei | ||
| 1967 | As You Like It | Audrey | ||
| 1971 | The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria | The Emperor | ||
| 1971 | A Woman Killed with Kindness | Master John Frankford | ||
| 1971 | Coriolanus | |||
| 1972 | Macbeth | |||
| 1972 | The Taming of the Shrew | Chichester Festival Theatre | ||
| 1974 | Equus | Dr. Martin Dysart | Plymouth Theatre, Broadway | |
| 1977 | Huntington Hartford Theatre, Los Angeles | |||
| 1979 | The Tempest | Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles | ||
| 1981 | The Arcata Promise | Theo Gunge | Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts | |
| 1984 | Old Times | Deeley | Roundabout Theatre Company, New York | |
| 1985 | The Lonely Road | Julian Fichtner | The Old Vic | |
| 1985 | Pravda | Lambert Le Roux | Royal National Theatre | |
| 1986 | King Lear | Lear | ||
| 1987 | Antony and Cleopatra | Antony | ||
| 1989 | M. Butterfly | Rene Gallimard | Shaftesbury Theatre, West End | |
| 2022 | Awakening | Narrator | Awakening Theater, Wynn Las Vegas | |