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Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins CBE (born December 31, 1937) is a Welsh and American actor, film director, and film producer. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, four British Academy Film Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards and a British Academy Television Award. He has also received an honorary Golden Globe Award and the BAFTA Fellowship from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. In 1993, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to the arts, and in 2003, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his achievements in the motion picture industry. After graduating from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 1957, Hopkins trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and was then spotted by Laurence Olivier who invited him to join the Royal National Theatre in 1965. Productions at the National included King Lear, his favourite Shakespeare play. His last stage play was a West End production of M. Butterfly in 1989. In 1968, Hopkins achieved recognition in film, playing Richard the Lionheart in The Lion in Winter. In the mid-1970s, Richard Attenborough, who directed five Hopkins films, called him "the greatest actor of his generation." In 1991, he portrayed Hannibal Lecter in the psychological horror film The Silence of the Lambs, winning the Academy Award for Best Actor. He reprised the role in its sequel Hannibal and the prequel Red Dragon. Other notable films include The Elephant Man (1980), 84 Charing Cross Road (1987), Howards End (1992), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), Shadowlands (1993), Legends of the Fall (1994), Meet Joe Black (1998), The Mask of Zorro (1998), Thor (2011), Thor: The Dark World (2013), Transformers: The Last Knight (2017), and Thor: Ragnarok (2017). He received four more Academy Award nominations for The Remains of the Day (1993), Nixon (1995), Amistad (1997) and The Two Popes (2019) before winning a fourth BAFTA Award and a second Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of an elderly man diagnosed with dementia in The Father (2020), becoming the oldest Best Actor Oscar winner to date. Since making his television debut with the BBC in 1967, Hopkins has continued to appear on television. In 1973 he received a British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for his performance in War and Peace. In 2015, he starred in the BBC film The Dresser alongside Ian McKellen. In 2018, he starred in King Lear opposite Emma Thompson. In 2016 and 2018, he starred in the HBO television series Westworld, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
Anthony Hopkins
Alfred Pennyworth
for Alfred Pennyworth in Batman TV show
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Bruce Wayne is the only child of the millionaire couple Thomas and Martha Wayne, when, at the age of eight, his parents were murdered after an assault. Bruce was deeply traumatized, and his life was never the same, Bruce was raised by is butler Alfred Pennyworth. Although a millionaire, Bruce did not take advantage of the comforts and luxuries he could have enjoyed. He spent his youth obsessed with vengeance and prevented the tragedy that had afflicted his parents from occurring with any other innocent. Bruce was stubborn to devote the rest of his life to fighting criminals and protecting innocents as a vigilante. He left Gotham City and traveled to various parts of the world, learning arts and techniques that could be useful in his goal, such as martial combat, investigation, disguise, self control, etc. He returned to Gotham years later, already an adult, determined to use everything he had learned to fight crime as a vigilante, Bruce tried at first to be an anonymous vigilante, but was almost arrested and killed. Back in his mansion, Bruce saw a Bat cross the window and this gave him the inspiration that he would have to put fear in the criminals, pretending to be a supernatural being, like a BatMan. So Bruce excavated the cave below his mansion, creating his secret headquarters, the bat-cave; diverted money and technology from their companies and fortune to set up an arsenal of weapons and vehicles. He created his Bat uniform, acting as a night watchman with a supernatural and demonic appearance, mixed with darkness.
