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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
Herbert Van Helsing
for Herbert Van Helsing in The Brides of Dracula
Suggested by jvpirate
The eleventh installment in the Universal Monsters Universe and a sequel to the "Dracula" pick. It's been 34 years since the destruction of Dracula, in such time, the son of Jonathan and Mina has grown up, now Quincey Harker has a family of his own, with a wife and a daughter. One evening, Quincey receives a letter from Countess Mircalla, in which she asks them for the property rights to buy Carfax abbey. Quincey gives the property to her and from then on, the family babysitter, Laura Bloom, has been having nightmares about a woman that visits her on her dreams. During one of those days, Quincey receives a letter from Van Helsing in which his wife describes a similar nightmare from that of Laura, but instead of a woman, is a man. Van Helsing suspects that Dracula might be alive. Together, Quincey and Van Helsing find out that Mircalla was actually a princess called Carmilla, Dracula's lover. She has been able to revive him and now he wants revenge against the Harkers and Van Helsing, by turning Miranda, Johanna and Laura into his new brides. The post credits scene shows Germany 1939, a nazi troop enters into Van Helsing's house and nazi doctor, Heinrich Von Frankenstein steals the diary of Victor Frankenstein
