# List of Anthony Hopkins performances

**Anthony Hopkins** (born December 31, 1937, in Margam, Port Talbot, Wales) is a Welsh actor whose screen performances span more than 130 credits from 1968 to the present, anchored by two Academy Awards for Best Actor, for Hannibal Lecter in *The Silence of the Lambs* (1991) and the dementia patient Anthony in *The Father* (2020).<sup>[1](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000164/)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[2](https://www.bfi.org.uk/lists/anthony-hopkins-10-essential-films)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[3](https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2021)</sup>  This article surveys his major film, television, and stage roles in chronological groups, with the awards attached to each.

| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Screen debut | Richard the Lionheart in *The Lion in Winter* (1968), which brought a BAFTA nomination for Supporting Actor; Encyclopedia.com separately lists a 1967 film debut in *The White Bus*<sup>[4](https://www.bafta.org/stories/sir-anthony-hopkins-a-life-in-pictures/)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[5](https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/film-and-television-biographies/anthony-hopkins)</sup>  |
| Academy Awards | Best Actor for *The Silence of the Lambs* (1991 film, awarded 1992) and *The Father* (2020 film, awarded 2021); nominations for *The Remains of the Day*, *Nixon*, and *Amistad*<sup>[6](https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1992)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[3](https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2021)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[1](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000164/)</sup>  |
| Emmy Awards | Two wins from six nominations, including Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or a Special for *The Bunker* (1981) and a 2017 nomination for *Westworld*<sup>[7](https://www.televisionacademy.com/bios/anthony-hopkins)</sup> |
| Signature role | Hannibal Lecter in *The Silence of the Lambs*, later repeated in *Hannibal* (2001) and *Red Dragon* (2002); the original performance ran about 16 minutes of screen time<sup>[8](https://theweek.com/culture-life/books/we-did-ok-kid-anthony-hopkins-candid-memoir-is-a-page-turner)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[7](https://www.televisionacademy.com/bios/anthony-hopkins)</sup>  |
| Historical figures played | Hitler, Captain Bligh, Richard Nixon, Pablo Picasso, Alfred Hitchcock, C. S. Lewis, Pope Benedict XVI, Sigmund Freud, Nicholas Winton, Emperor Vespasian<sup>[9](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/10/we-did-ok-kid-anthony-hopkins-book-review)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[10](https://time.com/6952770/one-life-true-story-nicolas-winton/)</sup>  |
| Honors | Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1987); knighted 1993<sup>[1](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000164/)</sup> |
| Recent work | *One Life* (2023), *Freud's Last Session* (2023), *Locked* (2025), and the voice of Jimmy in the *Rebel Moon* films (2023–2024)<sup>[11](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/anthony_hopkins)</sup> |

## Stage beginnings and the National Theatre

Hopkins trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, graduating in 1957, then studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London before [Laurence Olivier](https://www.edgepedia.org/laurence-olivier) invited him to join the National Theatre.<sup>[7](https://www.televisionacademy.com/bios/anthony-hopkins)</sup> Encyclopedia.com dates his stage debut to 1960 in *The Quare Fellow*, his London stage debut to 1964 in *Julius Caesar*, and his National Theatre membership to 1966–73.<sup>[5](https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/film-and-television-biographies/anthony-hopkins)</sup> His National Theatre credits include the title roles in *Macbeth* (1972, Old Vic), *King Lear* (1986–87), and *Coriolanus*, Marc Antony in *Antony and Cleopatra* (1987), Lambert Le Roux in *Pravda* (1985), and earlier parts at the Old Vic such as Edgar in Strindberg's *Dance of Death* (1966) and Andrei in Chekhov's *Three Sisters* (1967).<sup>[1](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000164/)</sup> He also appeared on Broadway in Peter Shaffer's *Equus* in 1974 and directed the Los Angeles production in 1977.<sup>[12](https://www.biography.com/actors/anthony-hopkins)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[5](https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/film-and-television-biographies/anthony-hopkins)</sup>

## First films, 1967–1982

**The 1968 debut.** Hopkins played the future Richard II's brother, Prince Richard the Lionheart, in *The Lion in Winter* (1968) opposite [Peter O'Toole](https://www.edgepedia.org/peter-otoole) and [Katharine Hepburn](https://www.edgepedia.org/katharine-hepburn), earning a Supporting Actor BAFTA nomination with this first feature performance.<sup>[4](https://www.bafta.org/stories/sir-anthony-hopkins-a-life-in-pictures/)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[13](https://goldenglobes.com/person/anthony-hopkins/)</sup>  Encyclopedia.com's career chronology instead places his film debut a year earlier, in *The White Bus* (1967).<sup>[5](https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/film-and-television-biographies/anthony-hopkins)</sup> Other early screen parts include John Avery in *The Looking Glass War* (1970) and Claudius in [Tony Richardson](https://www.edgepedia.org/tony-richardson)'s *Hamlet*.<sup>[5](https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/film-and-television-biographies/anthony-hopkins)</sup>

In 1977 he appeared in two major films, *A Bridge Too Far*, as Lieutenant Colonel John Frost in an ensemble with [James Caan](https://www.edgepedia.org/james-caan), Gene Hackman, Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier, and [Maximilian Schell](https://www.edgepedia.org/maximilian-schell).<sup>[1](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000164/)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[14](https://headlinely.co.uk/world/anthony-hopkins-filmography-awards/)</sup>

**Television awards.** Two adaptations brought Emmy recognition: he won Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or a Special for *The Bunker* (1981), playing [Adolf Hitler](https://www.edgepedia.org/adolf-hitler) in the final days in the Berlin bunker, and was nominated in the same category for *The Hunchback of Notre Dame* (1982); a 1990 nomination followed as Magwitch in *Great Expectations*.<sup>[7](https://www.televisionacademy.com/bios/anthony-hopkins)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[2](https://www.bfi.org.uk/lists/anthony-hopkins-10-essential-films)</sup>  His 1981 *Othello* for [Jonathan Miller](https://www.edgepedia.org/jonathan-miller), opposite [Bob Hoskins](https://www.edgepedia.org/bob-hoskins)'s Iago, is another television adaptation BFI lists among his essential performances.<sup>[2](https://www.bfi.org.uk/lists/anthony-hopkins-10-essential-films)</sup>

In cinema, he played the surgeon Frederick Treves in [David Lynch](https://www.edgepedia.org/david-lynch)'s *The Elephant Man* (1980), a performance whose first encounter with [John Hurt](https://www.edgepedia.org/john-hurt)'s John Merrick BFI singles out as the standout moment, and Captain William Bligh in [Roger Donaldson](https://www.edgepedia.org/roger-donaldson)'s *The Bounty* (1984), screened in competition at Cannes.<sup>[2](https://www.bfi.org.uk/lists/anthony-hopkins-10-essential-films)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[15](https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/p/anthony-hopkins/)</sup>  He also played Count Ciano in the television production *Io e il duce* (*Mussolini and I*).<sup>[5](https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/film-and-television-biographies/anthony-hopkins)</sup>

## The 1990s peak

Hopkins's screen standing changed with *The Silence of the Lambs* (1991), [Jonathan Demme](https://www.edgepedia.org/jonathan-demme)'s film in which he played [Hannibal Lecter](https://www.edgepedia.org/hannibal-lecter) opposite [Jodie Foster](https://www.edgepedia.org/jodie-foster). At the 64th Academy Awards he won Best Actor, and the film also won Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay.<sup>[6](https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1992)</sup> He also received a BAFTA for the role, and despite the performance's roughly 16 minutes of screen time it is widely treated as a lead.<sup>[1](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000164/)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[8](https://theweek.com/culture-life/books/we-did-ok-kid-anthony-hopkins-candid-memoir-is-a-page-turner)</sup>

The rest of the decade produced a dense run of leading roles, several of them Oscar-nominated:<sup>[1](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000164/)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[13](https://goldenglobes.com/person/anthony-hopkins/)</sup>

- *Howards End* (1992) and *The Remains of the Day* (1993), both with Emma Thompson for James Ivory; the latter brought an Oscar nomination as the butler Stevens.
- *Shadowlands* (1993), as C. S. Lewis for Richard Attenborough.
- *The Road to Wellville* (1994), as John Kellogg for Alan Parker, and *Legends of the Fall* (1994) with Brad Pitt.
- *Nixon* (1995), as Richard Nixon for Oliver Stone, an Oscar-nominated performance; a contemporary Los Angeles Times panel discussion assessed the role's challenges for his nomination.<sup>[16](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-03-24-ca-50520-story.html)</sup>
- *Surviving Picasso* (1996), as Pablo Picasso, and *Amistad* (1997), as John Quincy Adams for Steven Spielberg, another Oscar nomination.
- *The Mask of Zorro* (1998) with Antonio Banderas, *Meet Joe Black* (1998) with Brad Pitt, and *Instinct* (1999).

## Later film and television, 2000–present

Hopkins repeated Lecter in *Hannibal* (2001) and *Red Dragon* (2002).<sup>[7](https://www.televisionacademy.com/bios/anthony-hopkins)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[9](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/10/we-did-ok-kid-anthony-hopkins-book-review)</sup>  The 2000s brought *The World's Fastest Indian* (2005), his own favorite among his films, *Fracture* (2007), and appearances in *Alexander* (2004) and *The Wolfman* (2010).<sup>[2](https://www.bfi.org.uk/lists/anthony-hopkins-10-essential-films)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[11](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/anthony_hopkins)</sup>

**Franchise and biographical work.** He played the god Odin in *Thor* (2011), *Thor: The Dark World*, and *Thor: Ragnarok* (2017), Alfred Hitchcock in *Hitchcock* (2012) with Helen Mirren, Methuselah in *Noah* (2014), and Sir Edmund Burton in *Transformers: The Last Knight* (2017).<sup>[13](https://goldenglobes.com/person/anthony-hopkins/)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[17](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55d442e3e4b0d06bf5f85305/t/6089164bdf2d802e5e7d0d5d/1619596887517/TheFather_PRESSE_Print.pdf)</sup>  On television he starred as Dr. Ford in HBO's *Westworld* from 2016, receiving a 2017 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, and played the title role in Richard Eyre's *King Lear* (2018).<sup>[7](https://www.televisionacademy.com/bios/anthony-hopkins)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[13](https://goldenglobes.com/person/anthony-hopkins/)</sup>

**Second Oscar.** He played Pope Benedict XVI in *The Two Popes* (2019) and won his second Best Actor Oscar for *The Father* (2020), as an elderly man with dementia, at the 93rd Academy Awards.<sup>[13](https://goldenglobes.com/person/anthony-hopkins/)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[3](https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2021)</sup>  Roles since include Aaron Rabinowitz in *Armageddon Time* (2022), Nicholas Winton in *One Life* (2023), Sigmund Freud in *Freud's Last Session* (2023), Emperor Vespasian in the series *Those About to Die* (2024), King Herod in *Mary* (2024), the voice of Jimmy across the *Rebel Moon* films (2023–2024), and William in *Locked* (2025).<sup>[10](https://time.com/6952770/one-life-true-story-nicolas-winton/)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[11](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/anthony_hopkins)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[18](https://www.tvinsider.com/people/anthony-hopkins/)</sup>  Upcoming credits listed by IMDb include *Wife and Dog* (2026), *The Housekeeper*, and *Maserati: The Brothers*.<sup>[19](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000164/?showAllCredits=true)</sup>

## Music and directing

Hopkins has composed for the screen as well as acted in it. He composed the score for *August* (1996), his debut as a director, and later for *Slipstream* (2007) and *Elyse* (2020), on which he also served as producer.<sup>[20](https://apnews.com/article/8ba7dabc7a86f2a759cb01bc3d00a5a2)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[21](https://elpais.com/cultura/2026-07-10/anthony-hopkins-anuncia-un-disco-de-musica-clasica-con-gustavo-dudamel-la-musica-fue-mi-primera-aspiracion.html)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[11](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/anthony_hopkins)</sup>  In 2026 he released his debut album of classical compositions, *Life Is a Dream*, recorded at Alexandra Palace with conductor Gustavo Dudamel, who praised the same storytelling quality his acting is known for.<sup>[20](https://apnews.com/article/8ba7dabc7a86f2a759cb01bc3d00a5a2)</sup>

## References

1. [Anthony Hopkins, IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000164/)
2. [Anthony Hopkins: 10 essential films, BFI](https://www.bfi.org.uk/lists/anthony-hopkins-10-essential-films)
3. [The 93rd Academy Awards (2021), Oscars.org](https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2021)
4. [Sir Anthony Hopkins: A Life In Pictures, BAFTA](https://www.bafta.org/stories/sir-anthony-hopkins-a-life-in-pictures/)
5. [Anthony Hopkins, Encyclopedia.com](https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/film-and-television-biographies/anthony-hopkins)
6. [The 64th Academy Awards (1992), Oscars.org](https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1992)
7. [Anthony Hopkins, Emmy Awards and Nominations, Television Academy](https://www.televisionacademy.com/bios/anthony-hopkins)
8. [We Did OK, Kid: Anthony Hopkins' candid memoir is a 'page-turner', The Week](https://theweek.com/culture-life/books/we-did-ok-kid-anthony-hopkins-candid-memoir-is-a-page-turner)
9. [Anthony Hopkins's Beckettian Memoir, The New Yorker](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/10/we-did-ok-kid-anthony-hopkins-book-review)
10. [The Emotional True Story Behind Holocaust Drama One Life, TIME](https://time.com/6952770/one-life-true-story-nicolas-winton/)
11. [Anthony Hopkins Movies & TV Shows List, Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/anthony_hopkins)
12. [Anthony Hopkins: Biography, Actor, Movies, Age & Family, Biography.com](https://www.biography.com/actors/anthony-hopkins)
13. [Anthony Hopkins, Golden Globes](https://goldenglobes.com/person/anthony-hopkins/)
14. [Anthony Hopkins: His Career, Best Films, and Awards, Headlinely](https://headlinely.co.uk/world/anthony-hopkins-filmography-awards/)
15. [Anthony HOPKINS, Festival de Cannes](https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/p/anthony-hopkins/)
16. [The Acting Round Table, Los Angeles Times (1996)](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-03-24-ca-50520-story.html)
17. [The Father press kit](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55d442e3e4b0d06bf5f85305/t/6089164bdf2d802e5e7d0d5d/1619596887517/TheFather_PRESSE_Print.pdf)
18. [Anthony Hopkins, TV Insider](https://www.tvinsider.com/people/anthony-hopkins/)
19. [Anthony Hopkins full credits, IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000164/?showAllCredits=true)
20. [Anthony Hopkins on his debut album: 'My first love is music', AP News](https://apnews.com/article/8ba7dabc7a86f2a759cb01bc3d00a5a2)
21. [Anthony Hopkins anuncia un disco de música clásica con Gustavo Dudamel, El País](https://elpais.com/cultura/2026-07-10/anthony-hopkins-anuncia-un-disco-de-musica-clasica-con-gustavo-dudamel-la-musica-fue-mi-primera-aspiracion.html)

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