Sir Anthony Hopkins is a Welsh actor who is best known for playing the role
Hannibal Lecter in the films The
Silence of the Lambs,
Hannibal, and Red Dragon. In all three films he played the sadistic serial killer and cannibal.
Other notable Anthony Hopkins credits include Hamlet, War and Peace, A Bridge Too Far, Audrey Rose, A Flea in Her Ear, Young Winston, A Doll’s House, Magic, The Elephant Man, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Bounty, Mussolini and I, Desperate Hours, Howard’s End, Freejack, Chaplin, Spotswood, Bram Stoker’s
Dracula, The Remains of the Day, The Innocent, Shadowlands, Legends of the Fall, The Road to Wellville, Nixon, Surviving Picasso, Amistad, The Edge,
The Mask of
Zorro, Meet Joe Black, Instinct, Titus, Mission: Impossible II, The Grinch, The Devil and Daniel Webster, Hearts in Atlantis, Bad Company, The Human Stain, Alexander, Proof, The World’s Fastest Indian, All the King’s Men, Bobby, Fracture, Beowulf, Slipstream, The City of Your Final Destination, The Wolfman, Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, and King Lear.
In his personal life, he has been married to three women, Petronella Barker, Jennifer Lynton, and presently, Stella Arroyave. He has a daughter, Abigail Hopkins, from his first marriage. She is a singer and an actress. In 1993, he was knighted by the Queen of England.
