Anthony Hopkins

Sir Anthony Hopkins, CBE is one of the most celebrated and respected actors of our time. With a career spanning six decades, he has appeared in some of the world's most iconic films and won numerous awards for his work. Anthony Hopkins was born in Newport, Wales, on 31 December 1937. After graduating from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 1957, he trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. It was there that he met Laurence Olivier, who invited him to join the Royal National Theatre. Productions at the National included King Lear, his favourite Shakespeare play. His last stage play was a West End production of M. Butterfly in 1989. Hopkins' early film roles included Richard the Lionheart in The Lion in Winter (1968), and he went on to star in a number of acclaimed films, including The Elephant Man (1980), 84 Charing Cross Road (1987), Howards End (1992), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), Shadowlands (1993), Legends of the Fall (1994), Meet Joe Black (1998), The Mask of Zorro (1998), Thor (2011), Thor: The Dark World (2013), Transformers: The Last Knight (2017), and Thor: Ragnarok (2017). He has also received four more Academy Award nominations for The Remains of the Day (1993), Nixon (1995), Amistad (1997) and The Two Popes (2019) before winning a fourth BAFTA Award and a second Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of an elderly man diagnosed with dementia in The Father (2020), becoming the oldest Best Actor Oscar winner to date. Anthony Hopkins continues to act on television, appearing in the BBC film The Dresser alongside Ian McKellen in 2015. He is also set to star in King Lear opposite Emma Thompson for BBC Two in 2018. Hopkins has been married twice, first to actress Patricia Routledge from 1964 to 1968, and then to Estelle Morris from 1985 to 1995. He has five children, including actors Jamie and Linus Hopkins.