Anthony Hopkins

Anthony Hopkins fascinates me because his menace is built from stillness. Where lesser actors raise their voices, he lowers his, and the room goes cold. The Port Talbot upbringing and rigorous Welsh conservatory training gave him a craftsman's humility that has outlasted every trend in screen acting. His 1992 Academy Award is the obvious landmark, but I am equally drawn to his late-career work, where age has stripped his technique down to something almost transparent. That he also composes music suggests a restless mind that acting alone cannot exhaust. He is proof that mastery is not a peak but a practice, sustained across six decades.

Name (English)

Anthony Hopkins

Name (Japanese)

アンソニー・ホプキンス

Reading

あんそにー・ほぷきんす

Born

December 31, 1937 (age 88)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Ox

Origin

Port Talbot, United Kingdom

Height

174 cm

Occupation

film director / screenwriter / film producer / composer / stage actor

University

Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama

Awards & achievements

• 1998 Donostia Award
• 2008 BAFTA Fellowship
• 1992 Academy Award for Best Actor
• 2006 Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award
• 1994 David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actor
• 1993 London Film Critics Circle Award for Actor of the Year
• 1993 Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor
• 1973 British Academy Television Award for Best Actor

Motto

Private

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• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BD%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9B%E3%83%97%E3%82%AD%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9

Tags

• film director
• screenwriter
• film producer

Last updated

2026-06-11

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