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Sir Anthony Hopkins, Order of the British
Empire|CBE (born December 31, 1937) is a
Wales|Welsh-born actor who was born Philip Anthony
Hopkins in Margam, near Port Talbot, Wales to
Richard and Muriel. He was strongly influenced and
encouraged to become an actor by fellow Welshman
Richard Burton, whom he met briefly at the age of
fifteen.

He conquered alcoholism in 1975 and has not
touched a drop since, drinking carbonated apple
juice at his March 2003 wedding. He now resides in
the United States where he became a
naturalization|naturalized citizen on April 12,
2000. However, as a dual national, he retains his
British honours system|knighthood and can use the
title 'Sir' in the UK, but not in the US, since it
is considered 'inappropriate' according to the
British consulate.

Hopkins has been married three times. His first
two wives were Petronella Barker (1967-1972) and
Jennifer Lynton (1973-2003). He is now married to
Stella Arroyave. He has a daughter named Abigail
Hopkins (born 1968) from his first marriage.

His most famous role was the brilliant portrayal
of the cannibalism|cannibalistic serial killer
Hannibal Lecter in the film The Silence of the
Lambs for which he won the Academy Award for Best
Actor, opposite Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling,
who also won the Academy Award for Best Actress
that year. In fact the film won the Academy Award
for Best Picture as well that year, no doubt due
to the superb and electrifying interplay between
Hopkins and Foster. It is the shortest lead acting
Oscar-winning performance ever, as Hopkins is only
on the screen for about sixteen minutes. Hopkins
reprised the role of Dr. Lecter twice in Hannibal
(movie)|Hannibal and Red Dragon.  Lecter's
slurping sound from Silence of the Lambs was
apparently improvised. All three films were based
on the bestselling novels by Thomas Harris, who
reportedly was very pleased with Hopkins'
portrayal of Lecter.


Hopkins has also been Oscar-nominated for The
Remains of the Day (1993), which was based on the
award-winning novel by Kazuo Ishiguro.  Other
Oscar-nominated performances of Hopkins include:
Nixon (movie)|Nixon (1995) and Amistad (1997). 
Hopkins won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor for his
perfomances in The Silence of the Lambs and The
Remains of the Day.

He has played many famous historical and fictional
characters including: Zorro (The Mask of Zorro
1998), Quasimodo (The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1982), Othello (Othello 1981), Pablo Picasso
(Surviving Picasso 1996), Richard Nixon (Nixon
1995), Titus Andronicus (Titus 1999), John Quincy
Adams (Amistad 1997), Adolf Hitler (The Bunker
1981), Charles Dickens (The Great Inimitable Mr.
Dickens 1970), William Bligh (The Bounty 1984),
Richard Lionheart (The Lion in Winter 1968), David
Lloyd George (Young Winston)  Abraham Van Helsing
(Bram Stoker's Dracula 1992), and C. S. Lewis
(Shadowlands 1993).

He was made a Order of the British
Empire|Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in
1987, and knighted in 1993.

Today, Hopkins also takes time to support various
philanthropy|philanthropic groups. Hopkins was
past Gala Fundraiser Guest of Honour for Women in
Recovery, Inc., a Venice, California-based
non-profit organization offering a live-in,
12-Step programme of rehabilitation for women in
need. Other past honorees of this organization
have included Jamie Lee Curtis; the 2005 honoree
was Angela Lansbury.

He has offered his personal support to various
charities and appeals, notably becoming President
of the National Trust's Snowdonia Appeal, raising
funds for the preservation of the Snowdonia
National Park and to aid the Trust's efforts to
purchase parts of Mount Snowdon. A book
celebrating these efforts "Anthony Hopkins'
Snowdonia" was published together with Graham
Nobles.

===Other films (selected)===
* The Lion in Winter  (1968)
* The Looking Glass War  (1969)
* A Doll's House (movie) (1973)
* QB VII  (1974)
* Juggernaut (movie)|Juggernaut (1974)
* A Bridge Too Far (1977)
* Audrey Rose (1977)
* Magic (movie)|Magic (1978)
* International Velvet  (1978)
* The Elephant Man (1980)
* The Bunker  (1981)
* The Bounty  (1984)
* Guilty Conscience (movie)|Guilty Conscience
(1985)
* Mussolini And I  (1985)
* 84 Charing Cross Road (1986)
* The Desperate Hours (1990)
* The Silence of the Lambs  (1991)
* FreeJack  (1992)
* Chaplin (movie)|Chaplin (1992)
* The Efficiency Expert  (1992)
* Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
* Howards End (1992)
* The Remains of the Day  (1993)
* Shadowlands  (1993)
* Legends of the Fall (1994)
* The Road to Wellville (1995)
* Nixon(1995)
* Amistad  (1997)
* The Edge (1997 movie)|The Edge (1997)
* The Mask of Zorro  (1998)
* Meet Joe Black  (1998)
* Instinct (movie) (1999)
* Titus (movie)   (1999)
* How The Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
* Hannibal (movie) (2001)
* Hearts in Atlantis (movie) (2001)
* Red Dragon  (2002)
* Bad Company (2002)
* The Human Stain  (2003)
* Alexander (movie)   (2004)

==External links==
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*http://www.planethopkins.co.uk Planet Hopkins A
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*http://www.dvdark.co.uk/c/dvdology/MqAdLDzGFLp4/
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*http://www.westlord.com/anthonyhopkins/ Anthony
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*http://www.christinesmith.us/id16.html Anthony
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