biography
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Hopkins, Sir (Philip) Anthony
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| lived:
| (1937– )
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| biography:
| Actor and director, born in Port Talbot, SC Wales, UK. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London, and made his stage debut in The Quare Fellow (1960) at Manchester. A member of the National Theatre, he appeared there in numerous plays, including Pravda (1985), King Lear (1986), and Antony and Cleopatra (1987). He made his film debut in 1967, and appeared in The Lion in Winter (1968), The Elephant Man (1980), 84 Charing Cross Road (1987), and numerous other films, all acclaimed, but none so widely as his compelling performance as serial murderer Hannibal Lecter in Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs (1991, Oscar, BAFTA). Later films include Shadowlands (1994), Legends of the Fall (1995), Mission Impossible 2 (2000), and Hearts in Atlantis (2001). He made his directorial debut with August (1996), a loose version of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya (1899) transposed to Wales. Among real historical characters he has portrayed are the disgraced American president in Nixon (1995), the Spanish painter in Surviving Picasso (1996), and President John Quincy Adams in the Steven Spielberg film Amistad (1997). On television he won a BAFTA for War and Peace (1972), and Emmies for The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (1976) and The Bunker (1981). He won a further BAFTA for The Remains of the Day (1994). He was knighted in 1993, and became a US citizen in 2000. |
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