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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 Monster Squad : Demonic Incursion
Suggested by nikobatman
This story takes place shortly after the events of "Monster's Rising : Enter a New World." Wilhelmina Harker, although infected by Dracula at the end of the 19th century, continues to fight for the light from within the darkness. One evening, while investigating a Satanic cult, she frees their prisoner, Lawrence Talbot, the most powerful werewolf in the world, unable to return to human form but capable of controlling himself. They're then joined by two creatures who have recently gained worldwide notoriety : Princess Ahmanet, aka the Mummy, and Gill-Man. These two have recently reunited after sensing ominous signs for the future. Together, they free a former monster hunter, now half-mad but still highly skilled, who is being held in an asylum but knows a great deal about demons: Leroy Jackson, aka Spring-Heeled Jack. Upon freeing him, they encounter a deformed human, cursed for centuries, but fighting for good : Quasimodo, aka the Hunchback of Notre Dame. But above all, there's the one who contacted them all telepathically to fight against evil : a very powerful, shape-shifting half-demon who calls himself the Observer. Despite their doubts, they must all work together, because they're the only ones who can stop the demons from bringing total Apocalypse to Earth !
