Anthony Hopkins

Data di nascita
31 dicembre 1937 · Margam, Port Talbot, West Glamorgan, Galles, Regno Unito
Nome alla nascita
Philip Anthony Hopkins
Soprannome
- Tony
Altezza
1,75 m

Hair greased back and bold blue eyes
Often plays very proper and restrained British characters, as in Quel che resta del giorno (1993) and Viaggio in Inghilterra (1993).
Often plays malevolent real life individuals, William Bligh in Il Bounty (1984), Adolf Hitler in The Bunker (1981), Richard Bruno Hauptmann in Il caso Lindbergh (1976), and Richard Nixon in Gli intrighi del potere - Nixon (1995)
Character of Hannibal Lecter in Il silenzio degli innocenti (1991)
Often worked with Richard Attenborough

Reads each script 250 times out loud before filming, and to exercise his memory, memorizes one new poem a week.
Is proud of his improvisational touches as Hannibal Lecter in Il silenzio degli innocenti (1991) such as: the unnerving effect on Jodie Foster when he mocked her character's West Virginia accent; the distorion of the word "chianti" and the vile slurping sound he makes after he describes eating the "census-taker." Hopkins also notes that Hannibal never blinked his eyes when he spoke.
Though dyslexic, he's always possessed a great memory for scripts.
Had a brush with death while shooting L'urlo dell'odio (1997) in Alberta, Canada. He fell in a river, and was rushed to hospital to be treated for hypothermia.
Volunteers at the Ruskins School of Acting in Santa Monica, California, where he teaches everything from Shakespeare to scenes, theory, and monologues.

[on Gary Oldman] He is just like I was at his age.
I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's why I became an actor.
[Interviewed on Inside the Actors Studio (1994)] I once asked a Jesuit priest what was the best short prayer he knew. He said, "Fuck it,' as in, "Fuck it; it's in God's hands."
The Welsh people have a talent for acting that one does not find in the English. The English lack heart.
[December 1998] To hell with this stupid show business, this ridiculous showbiz, this futile waste of life. I look back and see a desert wasteland. All those years spent in a fake environment. Everything was a fake.