Anthony Hopkins

Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins (born 1937) is a Welsh actor regarded as one of the most recognisable and prolific performers in Britain, working on both stage and screen. After training at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and then at RADA, he was invited by Laurence Olivier to join the Royal National Theatre in 1965, and he won a Laurence Olivier Award for the play Pravda in 1985. His early films include The Lion in Winter, Magic and The Elephant Man. He won two Academy Awards for Best Actor, for playing Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and a man with dementia in The Father (2020). On television he won a British Academy award for War and Peace and two Primetime Emmy Awards. He received the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2005, the BAFTA Fellowship in 2008, and was knighted in 1993 for services to drama.