Sir Anthony Hopkins is a Welsh actor and director known for his extensive and diverse roles on stage and screen. He has received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards, a Critics' Choice Movie Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Laurence Olivier Award as well as nominations for eight Golden Globe Awards and seven Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Hopkins is an Oscar-winning actor, having received six Academy award nominations winning two of these for Best Actor for his performances as the serial killer Hannibal Lecter in the Jonathan Demme psychological thriller The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and Anthony, a man struggling with dementia in Florian Zeller's drama The Father (2020). He also Oscar-nominated for his performances as a reserved butler in James Ivory's drama The Remains of the Day (1993), Richard Nixon in Oliver Stone's biographical drama Nixon (1995), John Quincy Adams in Steven Spielberg's historical drama Amistad (1997), and Pope Benedict XVI in the Fernando Meirelles religious drama The Two Popes (2019).

For his work on television, he has received six Primetime Emmy Award nominations winning twice for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for his portrayals of Richard Hauptmann in the NBC television movie The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (1976), and as Adolf Hitler in the CBS television film The Bunker (1981). He was Emmy-nominated for playing Quasimodo in the CBS movie The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1982), Magwitch in the miniseries Great Expectations (1989), and Dr. Robert Ford in the HBO drama series Westworld (2016). He received a nomination for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Actor in a Miniseries or Movie for playing the title role in the BBC Two film King Lear (2018).

On stage, he won the Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement for his performance in the David Hare play Pravda (1985). Hopkins was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1987, and a Knight for his serves to drama by Queen Elizabeth II in 1993. Over his career he has received numerous accolades including the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2006 and the BAFTA Fellowship in 2008.