Anthony Hopkins has built a magnificent career in Hollywood across films and television shows. It is widely acknowledged that he portrays a wide range of roles with great ease, whether they are dramatic characters or roles in thrillers and fantasy films. Anthony Hopkins movies and TV shows career began with films like ‘Changes’.
He is known for bringing intelligence, restraint, and deep emotion to every character he portrays.
Hopkins has earned acclaim for his acting in films such as ‘The Silence of the Lambs’, ‘The Father’, ‘The Remains of the Day’, ‘Nixon’, ‘Howards End’, ‘Bram Stoker’s Dracula’, ‘The Lion in Winter’, and Marvel movies like ‘Thor’.
He also starred in the film ‘The Father’, playing an elderly man grappling with memory loss.
Anthony Hopkins has also carved a distinct niche for himself in the world of television his early career includes works such as ‘A Matter of Degree’, ‘The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens’, and ‘The Edwardians’.
Movies
| Year | Title | Role | Cast Name |
| 1965 | Changes | Quentin | Jacqueline Pearce |
| 1967 | The White Bus | Brechtian | Patricia Healey |
| 1968 | The Lion in Winter | Richard | Katharine Hepburn |
| 1969 | Hamlet | Claudius | Judy Parfitt |
| 1969 | Medieval England: The Peasants Revolt | Wat Tyler | Keith Skinner |
| 1970 | The Looking Glass War | Avery | Pia Degermark |
| 1971 | When Eight Bells Toll | Philip Calvert | Nathalie Delon |
| 1972 | Young Winston | Lloyd George | Anne Bancroft |
| 1973 | A Doll’s House | Torvald Helmer | Claire Bloom |
| 1974 | The Girl from Petrovka | Kostya | Goldie Hawn |
| 1974 | Juggernaut | Supt. John McCleod | Shirley Knight |
| 1977 | Audrey Rose | Elliot Hoover | Marsha Mason |
| 1977 | A Bridge Too Far | Lt. Col. Frost | Sean Connery |
| 1977 | Great Performances | Gunge | Julie Andrews |
| 1978 | International Velvet | Captain Johnson | Tatum O’Neal |
| 1978 | Magic | Corky/ Fats | Ann-Margret |
| 1980 | The Elephant Man | Dr. Frederick Treves | Anne Bancroft |
| 1980 | A Change of Seasons | Adam Evans | Shirley MacLaine |
| 1984 | The Bounty | Lt William Bligh | Mel Gibson |
| 1985 | The Good Father | Bill Hooper | Harriet Walter |
| 1987 | 84 Charing Cross Road | Frank P. Doel | Anne Bancroft |
| 1988 | The Dawning | Cassius/ Angus Barrie | Rebecca Pidgeon |
| 1989 | A Chorus of Disapproval | Dafydd Ap Llewellyn | Barbara Ferris |
| 1990 | Dylan Thomas: Return Journey | Introduction | Bob Kingdom |
| 1990 | Desperate Hours | Tim Cornell | Mimi Rogers |
| 1991 | The Silence of the Lambs | Dr. Hannibal Lecter | Jodie Foster |
| 1992 | Spotswood ‘The Efficiency Expert’ | Errol Wallace | Rebecca Rigg |
| 1992 | Freejack | Ian McCandless | Rene Russo |
| 1992 | Howards End | Henry Wilcox | Emma Thompson |
| 1992 | Bram Stoker’s Dracula | Professor Abraham Van Helsing | Winona Ryder |
| 1992 | Chaplin | George Hayden | Geraldine Chaplin |
| 1993 | The Trial | The Priest | Polly Walker |
| 1993 | The Innocent | Glass | Isabella Rossellini |
| 1993 | The Remains of the Day | Stevens | Emma Thompson |
| 1993 | Shadowlands | Jack Lewis | Debra Winger |
| 1993 | Screen Two | Guy Burgess/ The Priest | Roger Brierley |
| 1994 | The Road to Wellville | Dr. John Harvey Kellogg | Bridget Fonda |
| 1994 | Legends of the Fall | Ludlow | Julia Ormond |
| 1995 | Nixon | Richard M. Nixon | Joan Allen |
| 1996 | August | Ieuan | Kate Burton |
| 1996 | Surviving Picasso | Pablo Picasso | Natascha McElhone |
| 1997 | The Edge | Charles Morse | Elle Macpherson |
| 1997 | Amistad | John Quincy Adams | Anna Paquin |
| 1998 | The Mask of Zorro | Don Diego de la Vega/Zorro | Catherine Zeta-Jones |
| 1998 | Meet Joe Black | William Parrish | Claire Forlani |
| 1999 | Instinct | Ethan Powell | Maura Tierney |
| 1999 | Titus | Titus | Jessica Lange |
| 1999 | Siegfried & Roy: The Magic Box | Narrator voice | Siegfried Fischbacher |
| 2000 | Mission: Impossible II | Mission Commander Swanbeck | Thandiwe Newton |
| 2000 | How the Grinch Stole Christmas | Narrator voice | Taylor Momsen |
| 2001 | Hannibal | Hannibal Lecter | Julianne Moore |
| 2001 | Hearts in Atlantis | Ted Brautigan | Hope Davis |
| 2002 | Bad Company | Oakes | Kerry Washington |
| 2002 | Red Dragon | Hannibal Lecter | Emily Watson |
| 2003 | The Human Stain | Coleman Silk | Nicole Kidman |
| 2003 | Shortcut to Happiness | Daniel Webster | Jennifer Love Hewitt |
| 2004 | Alexander | Old Ptolemy | Rosario Dawson |
| 2005 | Proof | Robert | Gwyneth Paltrow |
| 2005 | The World’s Fastest Indian | Burt Munro | Diane Ladd |
| 2006 | Bobby | John | Demi Moore |
| 2006 | All the King’s Men | Judge Irwin | Kate Winslet |
| 2007 | Fracture | Ted Crawford | Rosamund Pike |
| 2007 | Slipstream | Bonhoeffer | Stella Hopkins |
| 2007 | Beowulf | Hrothgar | Robin Wright |
| 2008 | Where I Stand: The Hank Greenspun Story | Narrator Voice | John Ehrlichman |
| 2008 | Immutable Dream of Snow Lion | Actor | Veronica Coassolo |
| 2009 | The City of Your Final Destination | Adam | Charlotte Gainsbourg |
| 2010 | The Wolfman | Sir John Talbot | Emily Blunt |
| 2010 | The Third Rule | Fabian Hogarth | Valerie Azlynn |
| 2010 | You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger | Alfie | Naomi Watts |
| 2010 | Bare Knuckles | Xavier Jonas | Jeanette Roxborough |
| 2011 | The Rite | Father Lucas Trevant | Alice Braga |
| 2011 | Thor | Odin | Natalie Portman |
| 2011 | 360 | John | Lucia Siposova |
| 2012 | Hitchcock | Alfred Hitchcock | Helen Mirren |
| 2013 | Red 2 | Bailey | Helen Mirren |
| 2013 | Thor: The Dark World | Odin | Natalie Portman |
| 2014 | Noah | Methuselah | Jennifer Connelly |
| 2015 | Kidnapping Mr. Heineken | Freddy Heineken | Jemima West |
| 2015 | Solace | John Clancy | Abbie Cornish |
| 2015 | Blackway | Lester | Julia Stiles |
| 2016 | Misconduct | Arthur Denning | Alice Eve |
| 2016 | Collide | Hagen Kahl | Felicity Jones |
| 2017 | Transformers: The Last Knight | Sir Edmund Burton | Laura Haddock |
| 2017 | Thor: Ragnarok | Odin | Cate Blanchett |
| 2019 | The Two Popes | Cardinal Ratzinger/Pope Benedict | Cristina Banegas |
| 2019 | Where Are You | Thomas Yorke | Camille Rowe |
| 2020 | The Father | Anthony | Olivia Colman |
| 2020 | Elyse | Dr. Philip Lewis | Lisa Pepper |
| 2021 | The Virtuoso | The Mentor | Abbie Cornish |
| 2022 | Armageddon Time | Grandpa Aaron Rabinowitz | Anne Hathaway |
| 2022 | Zero Contact | Finley Hart | Veronica Ferres |
| 2022 | The Son | Anthony | Vanessa Kirby |
| 2023 | One Life | Nicky Winton | Lena Olin |
| 2023 | Freud’s Last Session | Sigmund Freud | Liv Lisa Fries |
| 2023 | Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire | Jimmy Voice | Sofia Boutella |
| 2024 | Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver | Jimmy Voice | Bae Doona |
| 2024 | Mary | Herod | Noa Cohen |
| 2025 | Locked | William | Ashley Cartwright |
| 2026 | Wife and Dog | Actor | Rosamund Pike |
| 2026 | The Species | Charles Darwin | Mia McKenna-Bruce |
| 2026 | The Housekeeper | Lord Grenville-Whithers | Helena Bonham Carter |
| 2026 | Maserati: The Brothers | Luca Antonelli | Jessica Alba |
| 2026 | Eyes in the Trees | Actor | Ashley Greene |
| 2026 | Bruno Penguin and the Staten Island Princess | Ben Windsor | NA |
| 2026 | A Visit to Grandpa’s | Grandpa | Catherine Zeta-Jones |
TV Shows
| Year | Title | Role | Cast Name |
| 1960 | A Matter of Degree | Stephen | Jessie Evans |
| 1965 | The Man in Room 17 | Dr. Harding | Richard Vernon |
| 1967 | A Flea in Her Ear | Etienne Plucheux | Margo Cunningham |
| 1968 | The Company of Five | Richard Mason | Gwen Watford |
| 1969 | Department S | Greg Halliday | Peter Wyngarde |
| 1969 | ITV Saturday Night Theatre | Arnold | Madoline Thomas |
| 1970 | The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens | Charles Dickens | Vivian Pickles |
| 1970 | Biography | Danton | Judy Parfitt |
| 1971 | The Ten Commandments | Steve | Judy Parfitt |
| 1972 | Poet Game | Hugh Saunders | Billie Whitelaw |
| 1972 | NET Playhouse | Danton | Charles Kay |
| 1972 | The Man Outside | Albert Watts | Sian Phillips |
| 1973 | The Edwardians | David Lloyd George | Judy Parfitt |
| 1973 | War and Peace | Pierre Bezukhov | Morag Hood |
| 1973 | Black and Blue | Hi | Elizabeth Spriggs |
| 1974 | QB VII | Adam Kelno | Leslie Caron |
| 1974 | Childhood | Dando | Rhoda Lewis |
| 1974 | Play for Today | Bob Goodliffe/Alexander Tashkov | Alison Steadman |
| 1974 | ITV Sunday Night Drama | Gunge | Victor Platt |
| 1974 | Omnibus | Marek | Kirsty Wark |
| 1974 | Possessions | Dando | Rhoda Lewis |
| 1975 | All Creatures Great and Small | Siegfried | Brenda Bruce |
| 1976 | Dark Victory | Dr. Michael Grant | Elizabeth Montgomery |
| 1976 | The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case | Bruno Richard Hauptmann | Denise Alexander |
| 1976 | Victory at Entebbe | Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin | Linda Blair |
| 1979 | Mayflower: The Pilgrims’ Adventure | Captain Jones | Jenny Agutter |
| 1981 | The Bunker | Adolf Hitler | Susan Blakely |
| 1981 | Peter and Paul | Paul of Tarsus | Robert Foxworth |
| 1981 | Othello | Othello | Penelope Wilton |
| 1982 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Quasimodo | Lesley-Anne Down |
| 1982 | BBC Play of the Month | Alfred Allmers/Andrey/Astrov/Edmund Kean | Janet Suzman |
| 1983 | A Married Man | John Strickland | Ciaran Madden |
| 1984 | Strangers and Brothers | Roger Quaife | Shaughan Seymour |
| 1984 | Arch of Triumph | Ravic | Lesley-Anne Down |
| 1985 | Hollywood Wives | Neil Gray | Candice Bergen |
| 1985 | Guilty Conscience | Arthur Jamison | Blythe Danner |
| 1985 | Mussolini and I | Count Galeazzo Ciano | Susan Sarandon |
| 1988 | Sunday Premiere | Donald Campbell | Cherie Lunghi |
| 1988 | The Tenth Man | Jean Louis Chavel | Kristin Scott Thomas |
| 1988 | The Play on One | Jack | Phyllis Logan |
| 1988 | Across the Lake | Donald Campbell | Rosemary Leach |
| 1989 | Heartland | Jack | Lynn Farleigh |
| 1989 | Great Expectations | Abel Magwitch | Jean Simmons |
| 1991 | One Man’s War | Joel | Norma Aleandro |
| 1991 | To Be the Best | Jack Figg | Stephanie Beacham |
| 1992 | Earth and the American Dream | John James Audubon/ Andrew Carnegie | Zalmar Zahir |
| 1993 | Bookmark | Gwyn Thomas/Self – Reader | Ian Hamilton |
| 2003 | Freedom: A History of US | George Washington/John Winthrop/Robert Walsh/William Radcliffe | Katie Couric |
| 2007 | American Masters | Narrator Voice | Judy Garland |
| 2011 | Andre Rieu Wien, du stadt meiner Traume | Self | Stella Hopkins |
| 2015 | The Dresser | Sir | Emily Watson |
| 2018 | King Lear | Lear | Emily Watson |
| 2018 | Westworld | Dr. Robert Ford | Evan Rachel Wood |
| 2021 | Mythic Quest | Narrator Voice | Charlotte Nicdao |
| 2024 | Those About to Die | Vespasian | Sara Martins |
Theatre
| Year | Title | Role | Venue | Playwright |
| 1964 | Julius Caesar | Metellus Cimber | Royal Court Theatre | William Shakespeare |
| 1966 | A Provincial Life | Boris Ivanov Blagovo | Royal Court Theatre | Anton Chekhov (adapted by Peter Gill) |
| 1966 | A Flea in Her Ear | Etienne Plucheux | The Old Vic | Georges Feydeau |
| 1966 | Juno and the Paycock | Irregular Mobilizer | The Old Vic | Sean O’Casey |
| 1967 | The Three Sisters | Andrei | The Old Vic | Anton Chekhov |
| 1967 | As You Like It | Audrey | The Old Vic | William Shakespeare |
| 1971 | The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria | The Emperor | The Old Vic | Fernando Arrabal |
| 1971 | A Woman Killed with Kindness | Master John Frankford | The Old Vic | Thomas Heywood |
| 1971 | Coriolanus | Coriolanus | The Old Vic | William Shakespeare |
| 1972 | Macbeth | Macbeth | The Old Vic | William Shakespeare |
| 1972 | The Taming of the Shrew | Petruchio | Chichester Festival Theatre | William Shakespeare |
| 1974 | Equus | Dr. Martin Dysart | Plymouth Theatre, Broadway | Peter Shaffer |
| 1977 | Equus | Dr. Martin Dysart | Huntington Hartford Theatre, Los Angeles | Peter Shaffer |
| 1979 | The Tempest | Prospero | Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles | William Shakespeare |
| 1981 | The Arcata Promise | Theo Gunge | Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts | David Mercer |
| 1984 | Old Times | Deeley | Roundabout Theatre Company, New York | Harold Pinter |
| 1985 | The Lonely Road | Julian Fichtner | The Old Vic | Arthur Schnitzler |
| 1985 | Pravda | Lambert Le Roux | Royal National Theatre | Howard Brenton & David Hare |
| 1986 | King Lear | Lear | Royal National Theatre | William Shakespeare |
| 1987 | Antony and Cleopatra | Antony | Royal National Theatre | William Shakespeare |
| 1989 | M. Butterfly | Rene Gallimard | Shaftesbury Theatre, West End | David Henry Hwang |
| 2022 | Awakening | Narrator (voice) | Awakening Theater, Wynn Las Vegas | Baz Halpin (Show Creator/Writer) |
Music videos
| Year | Title | Role | Cast Name |
| 2016 | I Forgive It All | The Reminiscing Man | Tom Petty |
Video Game
| Year | Title | Role | Cast Name |
| 2007 | Beowulf: The Game | King Hrothgar Voice | Pilar Aguado |