Anthony Hopkins Highlights

  • 2007: Portrayed King Hrothgar in Robert Zemeckis' big-budget film version of "Beowulf"
  • 2007: Feature debut as a screenwriter with "Slipstream"; also directed, produced and starred in the film as a Hollywood screenwriter who begins to confuse his own life with the characters he is creating on the page; premiered at the Sundance Film Festival
  • 2007: Co-starred in the dramatic thriller, "Fracture" as a man who confessed to killing his cheating wife
  • 2006: Cast in Steven Zaillian's big-screen adaptation of "All the King's Men"
  • 2006: Cast as the hotel doorman in Emilio Estevez's directorial debut, "Bobby," an ensemble centered around the night of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination
  • 2005: Co-starred in the film adaptation of David Auburn's play "Proof" directed by John Madden and starring with Gwyneth Paltrow and Jake Gyllenhaal
  • 2004: Cast as Ptolemy in Oliver Stone's "Alexander"
  • 2003: Cast to play a fair-skin African American who pretends to be white to avoid the 40's racism in "The Human Stain"
  • 2002: Once again essayed Hannibal Lecter in "Red Dragon"
  • 2002: Teamed with Chris Rock in the action comedy "Bad Company"
  • 2001: Reprised Oscar-winning role in the film adaptation of "Hannibal," Thomas Harris' sequel to "The Silence of the Lambs"
  • 2001: Acted in Baldwin's feature directorial debut, the remake of "The Devil and Daniel Webster"
  • 2000: Narrated the live-action version of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas"
  • 2000: Starred opposite Tom Cruise in "Mission: Impossible II," the John Woo-directed sequel to "Mission: Impossible"
  • 1999: Had title role in "Titus," Julie Taymor's film version of "Titus Andronicus"
  • 1999: Played anthropologist Dr Ethan Powell in "Instinct"
  • 1998: Teamed with Antonio Banderas for the remake "The Mask of Zorro"
  • 1998: Reteamed with Brad Pitt for "Meet Joe Black," loosely based on "Death Takes a Holiday"
  • 1997: Portrayed John Quincy Adams in Steven Spielberg's "Amistad"; received Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actor
  • 1996: Feature directorial debut, "August" an adaptation of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya"; also starred and composed score
  • 1996: Third collaboration with Merchant-Ivory, "Surviving Picasso"; played title role
  • 1995: Received third Best Actor Oscar nomination for title role in "Nixon," directed by Oliver Stone
  • 1994: Delivered an over-the-top performance as John W Kellogg in Alan Parker's "The Road to Wellville"
  • 1994: Cast as the patriarch to Brad Pitt, Henry Thomas and Aidan Quinn in "Legends of the Fall"
  • 1993: Garnered second Academy Award nomination for his performance as a repressed English butler in "The Remains of the Day"
  • 1993: Fifth collaboration to date with Attenborough, "Shadowlands"
  • 1993: Knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
  • 1992: First movie with director James Ivory, the sumptuous and stimulating adaptation of E M Forster's "Howards End"
  • 1991: Won Oscar for his chilling portrait as killer Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter in "The Silence of the Lambs"
  • 1991: Provided the voice of Marcus Crassus (subbing for the late Lord Olivier) in the restored version of "Spartacus"
  • 1989: Played Magwich in The Disney Channel miniseries "Great Expectations"
  • 1986: Delivered a strong performance in the title role of "The Good Father"
  • 1985: Returned to the London stage as star of "Pravda"
  • 1985: Co-starred in the ABC miniseries "Hollywood Wives"
  • 1984: Returned to England after a decade in the USA
  • 1984: Portrayed mild-mannered British bookseller in David Jones' loving, literate and totally disarming film "84 Charing Cross Road"; starred opposite Anne Bancroft
  • 1982: Starred in the title role in the CBS adaptation of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"
  • 1982: Made debut as a conductor with the New Symphony Orchestra at Royal Albert Hall on March 21
  • 1981: Earned second Emmy for his portrayal of Hitler in "The Bunker"
  • 1980: Portrayed Dr Frederick Treves in David Lynch's "The Elephant Man"
  • 1979: Starred as Captain Christopher Jones in "Mayflower: The Pilgrim's Adventure"
  • 1978: Delivered a strong performance as a ventriloquist in "Magic"
  • 1975: Won an Emmy as Bruno Richard Hauptmann in the TV-movie "The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case"
  • 1974: Broadway debut, "Equus"
  • 1974: Co-starred in the ABC miniseries "QB VII"
  • 1972: First of many collaborations with director Richard Attenborough in "Young Winston"
  • 1969: Played Claudius to Nicol Williamson's "Hamlet"
  • 1968: TV debut, "A Heritage and Its History"
  • 1968: Feature film debut, "The Lion in Winter"
  • 1967: Film debut in Lindsay Anderson's short, "The White Bus"
  • 1964: London stage debut, "Julius Caesar" at the Royal Court Theater
  • 1960: Stage debut in "The Quare Fellow" at the Library Theatre in Manchester, England
  • 1958: Served in the Royal Artillery
  • Invited to join The National Theater at the Old Vic where he played King Lear, Macbeth and Antony; first major role was when he understudied Laurence Olivier and eventually went on in "Dance of Death" (1966)
  • Acted in repertory in Leicester, Liverpool and Hornchurch, England

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