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Anthony Hopkins
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Anthony Hopkins is a Welsh actor, director and composer, born in Port Talbot in 1937. He trained at the Welsh College of Music and Drama and RADA before joining the National Theatre under Laurence Olivier. His screen roles include Richard in The Lion in Winter, Captain Bligh in The Bounty, C. S. Lewis in Shadowlands and the butler Stevens in The Remains of the Day.
Hopkins won the Academy Award for Actor in a Leading Role for The Silence of the Lambs at the 1992 ceremony and won the same award for The Father in 2021. These performances sit within a career spanning classical theatre, television drama and international cinema.
Reviewed 2026-09-06Selected sources
- BFI Screenonline — Anthony HopkinsHopkins’s 1937 Port Talbot birth, Welsh drama training, RADA and National Theatre career, major film roles, theatre work and later screen reputation.
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences — 1992 Academy AwardsHopkins’s Academy Award for actor in a leading role for The Silence of the Lambs.
- Academy — 2021 Academy Awards2021 leading-actor award for The Father.