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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
Professor Abraham Van Helsing
for Professor Abraham Van Helsing in The Brotherhood of Light
Suggested by nikobatman
1902, a young woman named Annabella goes to 221B Baker Street to seek help from the world's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes. She tells him that she's being pursued by a dangerous sect that needs her because she has visions. Holmes doesn't believe it but after being attacked by some fanatics, who are vampires, he has to accept that his vision of the world will have to change. They're looking for something to bring their master back to life, before the intervention of the one who "killed" him five years ago : Mina Harker ! Although she's also a vampire, she fights to preserve her soul, with the help of her mentor, Professor Abraham Van Helsing. They understand that Annabella really has a power and that can be usefull for them. To do this, they call on other extraordinary people. Arsène Lupin, the greatest thieves, as well as a gentleman. Prince Dakkar, better known as Captain Nemo, the world's greatest scientist and underwater adventurer. Finally, they'll also need the help of Lord John Clayton III of Greystoke, better known as "Tarzan", the lord of the jungle, the greatest adventurer in existence. Together, they'll discover that if Count Dracula is brought back to life, it will not be the worst, because this sect wants to allow the powerful and terrible "Great Old Ones" to return to our world to make it a real Hell ! All this looks terrible but... it is often in the shadows that we find the basis of Light !
