Anthony Hopkins
Anthony Hopkins | |
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 Hopkins at the Tuscan Sun Festival, Cortona, 2009 | |
| Born | Philip Anthony Hopkins 31 December 1937 Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales |
| Died | January 28 2016 (age 83) |
| Citizenship | British and American |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1960–2012 |
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Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins CBE (born 31 December 1937 - January 28 2016) is a Welsh actor of movies, theater and television. He is very famous for many roles in movies, especially as Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs. He has won an Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, two Emmys and the Cecil B. DeMille Golden Globe Award.
In 2011, Hopkins played Odin in the MCU movie Thor. In 2019, he played Pope Benedict XVI in the Netflix movie The Two Popes.
Hopkins was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1993 for services to the arts.[1] He gained US citizenship in 2000, whilst retaining his British citizenship. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2003, and was made a Fellow of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 2008.[2]
Hopkins won a fifth BAFTA Award and a second Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for The Father (2020), becoming the oldest Best Actor winner to date.[3]
References[change | change source]
- ↑ Sir Anthony Hopkins portrait The Telegraph Retrieved Thursday 6 January 2011
- ↑ Happy birthday Sir Anthony Hopkins The Daily Telegraph (Sydney). Retrieved 5 February 2011
- ↑ Verhoeven, Beatrice (15 March 2021). "Anthony Hopkins Becomes Oldest Best Actor Nominee at Oscars". The Wrap. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
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- 1937 births
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- American movie actors
- American stage actors
- American television actors
- Welsh movie actors
- Welsh stage actors
- Welsh television actors
- BAFTA Award winning actors
- Emmy Award winning actors
- Golden Globe Award winners
- Best Actor Academy Award winners
- Naturalized citizens of the United States
- People from Port Talbot
- Actors from Glamorgan