Anthony Hopkins

Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins CBE is a Welsh film director, producer, and actor. He has two Academy Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, a British Academy Television Award, and four British Academy Film Awards to his name. He has also earned an honorary Golden Globe Award and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts' BAFTA Fellowship Award. Hopkins commands authority in every job while having a thorough mastery of the content. He is an actor who is equally at home in polite British historical plays as pulpy criminal thrillers.

Hopkins is the oldest person to win an Academy Award for acting, having done it earlier this year for Florian Zeller's film The Father. His film career began in 1968 with The Lion in Winter, in which he co-starred with Katharine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole. Most notably, he received his first Academy Award nomination for his frightening performance as Hannibal Lecter in the Best Picture-winning Silence of the Lambs. Even at number two, Mr. Hopkins may be too far down the list to be included.