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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.
3 rich men, John Yen, Pep Cruz and Michael Middleton, meet in a hotel bar. Owns the strongest companies in the transport market. They bet 100M$, each will build a crew of 3 people who must sail through all stations and be the 1st to reach New York for the owner to win all 300M$. The Yen crew is Jack Wong, Sam Ling and Tommy Lee. Cruz's is Jorge Alonso, Xabi Telles and Mario Rodriguez. Middleton's is Jack White, Luke Farnsworth and Axel Donovan. 10 ports have been selected where each crew must anchor and report to a person who oversees it and reports everything to the trio in San Diego. Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Mumbai/Bombay, Alexandria, Marseille, Casablanca, Recife, San Juan, New York. 3 men watch everything every day at a bar in San Diego, where they are served by bartender Nur Rimberg (Bruneian mom, German Dad). After ships leave, Yen and others receive letter, from secret sender Cobra, saying that he knows about the bet and he wants to join and if he makes that neither ship reaches New York, then he wins. They have to include him or he will kill them. Cobra hires 7 men, their task is to liquidate the ships, even at the cosi of killing the crew. They attack the ship from the start, destroying Cruz's crew at Alexandria, only Telles survived and boarded Middleton's ship. Both destroyed ships sail to Recife, where Yen's ship is also sunk, Sam Ling was killed and the others got on Middleton's ship, which finally sailed to San Diego. The Cobra was Nur Rimberg.
