Anthony Hopkins, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Anthony Hopkins

Welsh actor

Date of Birth: 31-Dec-1937

Place of Birth: Margam, Wales, United Kingdom

Profession: screenwriter, actor, composer, performing artist, stage actor, film director, film producer, television actor, film actor

Nationality: Wales, United States, United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

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About Anthony Hopkins

  • Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins (born 31 December 1937) is a Welsh actor, director, and producer.
  • He won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1992, and was nominated three additional times.
  • Hopkins has also won three BAFTAs, two Emmys, and the Cecil B.
  • DeMille Award.
  • In 1993, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to the arts.
  • Hopkins received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2003, and in 2008, he received the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.After graduating from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 1957, he trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and was then spotted by Laurence Olivier who invited him to join the Royal National Theatre.
  • In 1968, he achieved renown, playing Richard the Lionheart in The Lion in Winter.
  • In the mid-1970s, Richard Attenborough, who would direct five Hopkins films, called him "the greatest actor of his generation." Hopkins portrayed Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor, its sequel Hannibal, and the prequel Red Dragon.
  • Hopkins was nominated for three other Academy Awards for the films, The Remains of the Day (1993), Nixon (1995), and Amistad (1997).
  • Other notable films include: 84 Charing Cross Road (1987), The Elephant Man (1980), Howards End (1992), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), Legends of the Fall (1994), Meet Joe Black (1998), The Mask of Zorro (1998), and Thor (2011) and its 2013 and 2017 sequels.
  • In 2015, he starred in the BBC television film The Dresser, and in 2016 and 2018, he starred in the HBO television series Westworld.

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