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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.
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Legendary Stephen Robert Irwin also The Crocodile Hunter was an Australian zookeeper, conservationist, television personality, wildlife expert, and environmentalist. He was born to Lyn and Bob Irwin. They moved to Queensland in 1970. Bob and Lyn started the small Queensland Reptile and Fauna Park, where Steve grew up around crocodiles and other animals. He began handling crocodiles in 9yo. In 1997, while on a fishing trip he discovered a new species of turtle. Steve and Terri spent honeymoon trapping crocodiles. Film footage of it became 1st episode of The Crocodile Hunter. The Show became successful in the US and UK and 130 other countries, reaching 500 million people. In addition to running zoo, Irwins established large private wildlife refuges and founded an international organization, Wildlife Warriors Worldwide, which protects habitat and wildlife, creates breeding and rescue programs for endangered species, and leads scientific research to aid conservation. He helped found the International Crocodile Rescue. He bought lands in Australia, Vanuatu, Fiji and US which he described as national parks. He playd in many tv shows, voiced movies. New snail was named after him in 2009. There is Steve Irwin Day on 15.November. Honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He was described as modernday Noah. He was awarded the Medal by the Australian government. He was inducted into the Logie Hall of Fame. His Funeral was broadcast live with more then 300 million viewers.
