Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins 

CBE (born 31 December 1937) is a Welsh actor, film director, and film

producer.[2] He has received many accolades, including two Academy Awards for Best Actor, four BAFTAs,
two Emmys, the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a British Academy Television Award. In 1993, he
was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to the arts. Hopkins received a star on the Hollywood Walk
of Fame in 2003 and the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement from the British Academy of Film and
Television Arts in 2008.
After graduating from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 1957, Hopkins trained at the Royal
Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and was then spotted by Laurence Olivier who invited him to join
the Royal National Theatre in 1965. Productions at the National included King Lear, his
favourite Shakespeare play. His last stage play was a West End production of M. Butterfly in 1989.
In 1968, Hopkins achieved recognition in film, playing Richard the Lionheart in The Lion in Winter. In the
mid-1970s, Richard Attenborough, who directed five Hopkins films, called him "the greatest actor of his
generation." In 1991, he portrayed Hannibal Lecter in the psychological horror film The Silence of the
Lambs, winning the Academy Award for Best Actor. He reprised the role in its sequel Hannibal and the
prequel Red Dragon. Other notable films include The Elephant Man (1980), 84 Charing Cross
Road (1987), Howards End (1992), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), Shadowlands (1993), Legends of the
Fall (1994), Meet Joe Black (1998), The Mask of Zorro (1998), Thor (2011), Thor: The Dark
World (2013), Transformers: The Last Knight (2017), and Thor: Ragnarok (2017). He received four
more Academy Award nominations for The Remains of the Day (1993), Nixon (1995), Amistad (1997)
and The Two Popes (2019) before winning a fourth BAFTA Awa