Anthony Hopkins (full name Philip Anthony Hopkins) was born on December 31, 1937. He is a famous American actor.
Biography and Career :
His debut was at the age of 17 in the theatre of YMCA. An year later he was initiated at The Royal Dramatical Art Academy in London. In 1960, Anthony Hopkins made his debut in theatre with "The Quare Fellon", spending four years this way before playing the part of Julius Cesare in "Quare".
The star made his debut as a film actor in 1967 in "The White Bus". The following year he starred in "The Lion in Winter" as Richard the Lionhearted. Sir Anthony Hopkins won the Oscar for the Best Made Actor in "The Silence of the Lambs", being the criminal Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter. This happened in 1991. In 1995, Hopkins was nominated to Oscar for
the part of Richard Hixon in "Hixon". In "James Ivory" he is Pablo Picasso in 1996. The next year he was again nominated for Best Made Actor in a secondary part in the film of Steven Spielberg-"Amistad".
His nominations for Oscar and his prestige on the stage or on the big screen make Anthony Hopkins deserve a special place in the top of the best actor world ever had. That is why he really deserves to be called Sir Anthony Hopkins.
Quotes :
- "Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then."
- "I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette."
- "I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen."
Trivia :
- He has received two Oscar nominations for playing U.S. Presidents. He played Richard Nixon in Nixon, and John Quincy Adams in Amistad.
- The drama school at the Southern Institute of Technology in New Zealand was named after him when he was in Invercargill filming The World's Fastest Indian.
Filmography :
- Harry and the Butler (2008)
- The City of Your Final Destination (2007)
- Beowulf (2007)
- Slipstream (2007)
- Fracture (2007)
- All the King's Men (2006)
- Bobby (2006)
- The World's Fastest Indian (2005)
- Proof (2005)
- Alexander (2004)
- The Human Stain (2003)
- Red Dragon (2002)
- Bad Company (2002)
- Hearts in Atlantis (2001)
- Hannibal (2001)
- The Devil and Daniel Webster (2001)
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) (voice)
- Mission: Impossible II (2000) (uncredited)
- Titus (1999)
- Instinct (1999)
- Meet Joe Black (1998)
- The Mask of Zorro (1998)
- Amistad (1997)
- The Edge (1997)
- Surviving Picasso (1996)
- August (1996)
- Nixon (1995)
- Legends of the Fall (1994)
- The Road to Wellville (1994)
- Shadowlands (1993)
- The Remains of the Day (1993)
- Selected Exits (1993) (TV)
- The Innocent (1993)
- The Trial (1993)
- Chaplin (1992)
- Dracula (1992)
- To Be the Best (1992) (TV)
- Howards End (1992)
- Spotswood (1992)
- Freejack (1992)
- One Man's War (1991) (TV)
- The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
- Desperate Hours (1990)
- "Great Expectations" (1989) (mini) TV Series
- Heartland (1989) (TV)
- The Tenth Man (1988) (TV)
- Across the Lake (1988) (TV)
- A Chorus of Disapproval (1988)
- The Dawning (1988)
- 84 Charing Cross Road (1987)
- The Good Father (1985)
- Mussolini: The Decline and Fall of Il Duce (1985) (TV)
- Arch of Triumph (1985) (TV)
- "Hollywood Wives" (1985) (mini) TV Series
- Guilty Conscience (1985) (TV)
- Blunt (1985) (TV)
- The Bounty (1984)
- Strangers and Brothers (1984) (TV)
- A Married Man (1983) (TV)
- "Play of the Month" (3 episodes, 1970-1982)
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1982) (TV)
- Othello (1981) (TV)
- Peter and Paul (1981) (TV)
- The Bunker (1981) (TV)
- A Change of Seasons (1980)
- The Elephant Man (1980)
- Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure (1979) (TV)
- Kean (1978) (TV)
- Magic (1978)
- International Velvet (1978)
- A Bridge Too Far (1977)
- Audrey Rose (1977)
- Victory at Entebbe (1976) (TV)
- The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (1976) (TV)
- Dark Victory (1976) (TV)
- All Creatures Great and Small (1975)
- Juggernaut (1974)
- The Girl from Petrovka (1974)
- "Play for Today" (2 episodes, 1970-1974)
- "QB VII" (1974) (mini) TV Series
- Possessions (1974) (TV)
- The Arcata Promise (1974) (TV)
- "Black and Blue" (1 episode, 1973)
- A Doll's House (1973/I)
- Lloyd George (1973) (TV)
- "War & Peace" (1972) (mini) TV Series
- Young Winston (1972)
- Poet Game (1972) (TV)
- "The Edwardians" (1972) (mini) TV Series
- "The Ten Commandments" (1971) TV Series
- When Eight Bells Toll (1971)
- Decision to Burn (1971) (TV)
- Danton (1970) (TV)
- "Department S" (1 episode, 1970)
- The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens (1970) (TV)
- Hamlet (1969)
- The Looking Glass War (1969)
- The Lion in Winter (1968)
- The White Bus (1967)
- A Flea in Her Ear (1967) (TV).
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