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Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins is a Welsh actor. Considered one of Britain's most recognisable and prolific actors, he is known for his performances on the screen and stage. Hopkins has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Laurence Olivier Award. He has also received the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2005 and the BAFTA Fellowship fo…
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ESPN: Randolph-Macon 28-21 Johns Hopkins (Sep 12, 2026) Box Score
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Public attention spiked: 25,853 Wikipedia readers in one day, 5.2× the usual 5,010, with 0 article edits. Coverage that week: “Anthony Hopkins: Life Is a Dream album review – easy on the ear melodies written from the heart” (The Guardian).
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The Guardian: Anthony Hopkins: Life Is a Dream album review – easy on the ear melodies written from the heart
Released album “Life Is a Dream”.
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“My wife, Stella, sent an invitation to come and see us. Not a word of response. So I think”
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I have not been a good husband or father." In 2026, Hopkins said: "My wife, Stella, sent an invitation to come and see us.
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Hopkins said: "My wife, Stella, sent an invitation to come and see us
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Released album “Frontal Lobotomy”.
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Hopkins celebrated 50 years of sobriety, urging everyone with addiction to "choose life
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I'm compelled to say, whoever's running the show, thank you very much." In 2025, Hopkins celebrated 50 years of sobriety, urging everyone with addiction to "choose life."
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Snopes rated the claim “Actor Anthony Hopkins said, "Israel means war and destruction, and America is behind this war, and I'm ashamed to be an American."” False.
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“Sir Anthony Hopkins Unleashes the Wred Dragon (2 February 2024)”
Hopkins portrayed Herod the Great in the Netflix film Mary
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Snopes rated the claim “Actor Anthony Hopkins once said, “My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier."” Research In Progress.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Anthony Hopkins Endorsed A Medicare Flex Card” Fake Voice.
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Hopkins starred as stockbroker and humanitarian Sir Nicholas Winton in the biographical drama film One Life, and also played Sigmund Freud in Freud's Last Session
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Full Fact rated the claim “An inspirational quote that begins “None of us are getting out of here alive” came from Sir Anthony Hopkins.” We can find no evidence for this. The quote appears to come from a 2015 Facebook post by Nanea Hoffman, the founder of an online lifestyle brand..
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Full Fact rated the claim “Sir Anthony Hopkins is the author of a short essay on personal relationships.” There is no evidence for this. Similar words predating the first instance of the essay being attributed to Sir Anthony have been attributed to another author..
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Acted in James Gray's semi-autobiographical coming of age drama Armageddon Time (2023)
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Anthony Hopkins Said 'Let Go The People Who Are Not Prepared To Love You'” Fake Quote.
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Awarded European Film Award for Best Actor for The Father (2021).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Actor for The Father (2021).
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Snopes.com rated the claim “In 2013, actor Anthony Hopkins wrote a fan letter to fellow actor Bryan Cranston, saying his performance as Walter White in "Breaking Bad" was "the best acting I have seen - ever."” True.
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Snopes rated the claim “In 2013, actor Anthony Hopkins wrote a fan letter to fellow actor Bryan Cranston, saying his performance as Walter White in "Breaking Bad" was "the best acting I have seen - ever."” True.
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Snopes rated the claim “Actor Anthony Hopkins wrote: "Let Go of People Who Aren't Ready to Love You Yet!"” Incorrect Attribution.
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AP News rated the claim “Video shows a nurse pretending to vaccinate actor Anthony Hopkins for COVID-19, but actually squirting the solution in the syringe onto the ground.” False.
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Hopkins played a man struggling with Alzheimer's disease in The Father
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Hopkins portrayed Pope Benedict XVI opposite Jonathan Pryce as Pope Francis in Fernando Meirelles' The Two Popes
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"When I was at the Royal National Theatre all those years ago, I knew I had something in me, but I didn't have the discipline
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Snopes rated the claim “Actor Anthony Hopkins has died.” False.
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Portrayed Methuselah in Darren Aronofsky's Noah
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Released album “Composer”.
Hopkins said, "what I enjoy is uncertainty
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“what I enjoy is uncertainty. ... I don”
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“Sir Anthony Hopkins: I couldn't be an atheist". (11 February 2011)”
“Anthony Hopkins on the secret of his spooky success: ‘I like to act like a submarine’ (11 February 2010)”
Awarded BAFTA Fellowship (2008).
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Received the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award, the highest award the British Film Academy can bestow
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Announced he would retire temporarily from the screen to tour around the world
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Released album “Symphony no. 13 'Babi Yar' / Symphony no. 15 / Mussorgsky: Songs and Dances of Death / 'Khovashchina' Prelude”.
Won Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award (2006).
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Hopkins was the recipient of the Golden Globe Cecil B
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And the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement in 2008
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Hopkins was named among the 100 Welsh Heroes in a Welsh poll
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Awarded star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (2003).
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Hopkins received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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Released album “Christus Apollo”.
Stated, "I was a poor learner, which left me open to ridicule and gave me an inferiority complex
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“Opis: o spotkaniu z Hopkinsem w 2001, na planie filmu Kraina wiecznego szczęścia”
Hopkins narrated Ron Howard's live action remake of How the Grinch Stole Christmas
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Awarded Donostia Award (1998).
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Donated £1 million towards the £3 million needed to aid the Trust's efforts in purchasing parts of Snowdon
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Starring in The Mask of Zorro and Meet Joe Black, and also agreed to reprise his role as Hannibal Lecter for a fee of £15 million
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Awarded Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor for Amistad (1997).
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Hopkins narrated the BBC natural documentary series, Killing for a Living, which showed predatory behaviour in nature
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Directed August, an adaptation of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya set in Wales
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Released album “August”.
Awarded David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actor for The Remains of the Day (1994).
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Awarded London Film Critics Circle Award for Actor of the Year for The Remains of the Day (1993).
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Awarded National Board of Review Award for Best Actor for The Remains of the Day (1993).
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Awarded Southeastern Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor for Shadowlands (1993).
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Awarded Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor for The Remains of the Day (1993).
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Awarded Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor for Shadowlands (1993).
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Awarded Knight Bachelor (1993).
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Awarded Academy Awards (1992).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Actor for The Silence of the Lambs (1992).
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Hopkins starred in Merchant-Ivory's period film based on the E
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“Voir le recueil de citations : Dracula (film, 1992)”
Helped open their first intensive drug and alcohol rehabilitation unit at Downview (HM Prison), a women's prison in Surrey, England
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Awarded Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor for The Silence of the Lambs (1991).
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Awarded New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor for The Silence of the Lambs (1991).
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Awarded National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Silence of the Lambs (1991).
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Awarded Saturn Award for Best Actor for The Silence of the Lambs (1991).
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Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for The Silence of the Lambs (1991).
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Awarded Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Silence of the Lambs (1991).
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Awarded Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor for The Silence of the Lambs (1991).
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With Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling, who also won for Best Actress
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Hopkins directed a film about his Welsh compatriot, poet Dylan Thomas, titled Dylan Thomas: Return Journey, which was his directing debut for the screen
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Hopkins made his last appearance on stage in a West End production of M
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Starred as Abel Magwitch in the miniseries Great Expectations which was broadcast on ITV in the UK and The Disney Channel in the US
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Awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1987).
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Released a single called "Distant Star", which peaked at No
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Starred in David Hare's production of King Lear, Hopkins's favourite Shakespeare play, at the National Theatre
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Received acclaim and a Laurence Olivier Award for his performance in the David Hare play Pravda
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Hopkins starred opposite Colin Firth in the Arthur Schnitzler play The Lonely Road at The Old Vic in London
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Portrayed Deeley in Harold Pinter's play Old Times at the Roundabout Theatre in New York
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Starred opposite Mel Gibson in The Bounty as William Bligh, captain of the Royal Navy ship HMS Bounty, in a more accurate retelling of the mutiny on the Bounty
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Hopkins also became a company member of The Mirror Theater Ltd's Repertory Company
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Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for The Bunker (1981).
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Starred in the CBS television film The Bunker portraying Adolf Hitler during the final weeks of his life in and around his underground bunker in Berlin
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Starred in David Lynch's The Elephant Man as the English doctor Sir Frederick Treves, who attends to Joseph Merrick (portrayed by John Hurt), a severely deformed man in 19th century London
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Hopkins appeared as Prospero in a production of The Tempest held at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles
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Starred in the sequel to National Velvet (1944), entitled International Velvet with Tatum O'Neal, Christopher Plummer, which was directed by Bryan Forbes
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“A los 17 años estaba harto de que me llamaran estúpido y me dije: ‘Voy a hacer algo. Voy a ser actor.”
“Voir le recueil de citations : Le Silence des agneaux”
“Qualcuno ha detto che la fede è una scommessa. Così, è meglio credere a una forza che ci sostiene piuttosto che vivere in una stanza senza luce e senza speranza.”
“To act is to decieve, and to decieve, one must forget oneself.”
“El sentido de la vida está en vivir cada día tal como se nos presenta.”
“Non sono ateo, anche se sono stato cresciuto così. E non mi metto a discutere con gli atei. Meglio essere felici che cercare di avere ragione.”
“Ho incontrato alcuni anni fa un sacerdote australiano tormentato per questo. La sua vita si stava spaccando. Soffriva terribilmente. Gli dicevano: prega, prega.”
“También pienso mucho en un día que pasé con mi padre en la playa...Yo estaba llorando porque se me había caído a la arena un caramelo que me había comprado. Pienso en ese niño miedoso, que estaba destinado a crecer y a volverse un idiota en la escuela. Torpe, solitario, rabioso. Y quiero decirle: No pasa nada, chaval, lo hemos hecho bien.”
“Finalmente avevo trovato una soluzione ai miei problemi: non arrendersi mai. Non mollare mai. Il fallimento era inevitabile, ma lo era anche il successo. La morte era inevitabile, ma lo era anche la vita. (p. 119).”
“I don’t know what it is, truthfully, I think part of it is being still and all that. I don’t know. I like to kind of come in at the side door. I like to act like a submarine; just don’t do much and just let it evolve. It’s resisting the urge to push the envelope. It’s very difficult for an actor to avoid, you want to show a bit. But I think the less one shows the better”
“Actuar es engañar, y para engañar hay que olvidarse de uno mismo». [To act is to decieve, and to decieve, one must forget oneself].”
Played British Army officer John Frost in Attenborough's World War II-set film A Bridge Too Far
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“Alle persone in difficoltà dico sempre che può essere di conforto guardare le proprio fotografie da bambini: tornate a quel bambino ogni volta che siete in dubbio. Non dimenticate mai il piccolo in quella foto, quel ragazzino che sapeva così poco e in cui forse non credeva nessuno. È importante ricordare chi siete e da dove venite. Non lasciatelo mai andare. (p. 261).”
“Voir le recueil de citations : Alexandre (film)”
“Non sopporto le persone che dicono che la vita non è giusta. Certo che non lo è. Se la vita fosse giusta, sarei morto quarant'anni fa. Se ci fosse giustizia, sarei dovuto morire molte volte prima di allora. Ma sono vivo. (p. 249)”
Awarded Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play for Equus (1975).
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Hopkins is a recovering alcoholic and has stayed sober since just after Christmas 1975.
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As Burton prepared to take over Hopkins's role as the psychiatrist in Peter Shaffer's Equus, with Hopkins stating, "He was a phenomenal actor
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Awarded British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for War and Peace (1973).
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Again portrayed David Lloyd George in the BBC miniseries The Edwardians which aired in the US in 1974 on Masterpiece Theatre
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Hopkins starred as British politician David Lloyd George in Young Winston
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And Pierre Bezukhov in the BBC's mini series War and Peace (1972), receiving the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for his performance in the latter
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Hopkins got his break in The Lion in Winter playing Richard the Lionheart, a performance which saw him nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
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After several years in repertory, he was spotted by Laurence Olivier, who invited him to join the Royal National Theatre in London
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In Changes, a short directed by Drewe Henley, written and produced by James Scott and co-starring Jacqueline Pearce
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Studied at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (1963).
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With Swansea Little Theatre's production of Have a Cigarette
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Hopkins trained at RADA (the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) in London
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To instil discipline, his parents insisted he attend Jones' West Monmouth Boys' School in Pontypool
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Born 1937-12-31.
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