Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#348
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Anthony Hopkins represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 59 years in, and Anthony is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Anthony Hopkins appears in 72 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Anthony. The Silence of the Lambs is the clearest case: a film rated 9.2 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for drama, thriller, history. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Guy Ritchie, Bobby Moresco, Zack Snyder and others, Anthony Hopkins helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
The Silence of the Lambs (1991) as Dr. Hannibal Lecter · The Silence of the Lambs (1991) as Dr. Hannibal Lecter · The Father (2020) as Anthony
Career snapshot
Ranked #348 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
72
1968–2027
Career length
59 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.2
The Silence of the Lambs
Average Nutevio score
6.3
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.6
The Silence of the Lambs
Most frequent director
Richard Attenborough
4 films together
Longest collaboration
4×
With Richard Attenborough
Most common genre
Drama
46 titles
Average runtime
1h 56m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
7.0
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
7.1
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
1980s
7.3 average MV
The 1980s are where the work and the material meet. 84 Charing Cross Road, The Bounty, The Elephant Man — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1980s
7.3
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1960s
7.4
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1960s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. The Lion in Winter.
Most productive era
2010s
19 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.01 film | 6.92 films | 7.33 films | 7.012 films | 6.49 films | 6.19 films | 4.810 films |
| Action | — | — | 6.71 film | 6.43 films | 5.94 films | 6.57 films | 6.14 films |
| Thriller | — | — | — | 7.73 films | 6.46 films | 5.97 films | 4.04 films |
| Comedy | — | — | — | — | 6.03 films | 6.73 films | — |
| Crime | — | — | — | 7.24 films | 6.92 films | 6.33 films | 5.91 film |
| Romance | — | — | 7.21 film | 7.36 films | 6.12 films | 5.82 films | — |
| Horror | — | 6.81 film | — | 8.32 films | 7.11 film | 6.02 films | 6.21 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Richard.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.2 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2027Wife & Dog
The current state of the argument.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
72 of 72 films
as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
Directed by Jonathan Demme
as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
Directed by Jonathan Demme
as Frederick Treves
Directed by David Lynch
as Nicholas Winton
Directed by James Hawes
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
Showing 24 of 75 titles · 77 total credits · active 1968–2027
Wife & Dog
2027 · Actor
Maserati: The Brothers
2026 · Luca Antonelli
Locked
2025 · William
Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver
2024 · Jimmy (voice)
Mary
2024 · King Herod
Those About to Die
2024 · TV · Emperor Vespasian
Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire
2023 · Jimmy (voice)
Freud's Last Session
2023 · Sigmund Freud
Sly
2023 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
One Life
2023 · Nicholas Winton
Zero Contact
2022 · Finley Hart
The Son
2022 · Anthony
Where Are You
2022 · Thomas
Armageddon Time
2022 · Aaron Rabinowitz
The Virtuoso
2021 · The Mentor
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
2021 · Self (archive footage)
Marvel Studios Legends
2021 · TV · Odin (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Father
2020 · Anthony
Mythic Quest
2020 · TV · Everlight Narrator (voice)
Love, Antosha
2019 · Self (voice)
The Two Popes
2019 · Joseph Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI
King Lear
2018 · Lear
Thor: Ragnarok
2017 · Odin
Transformers: The Last Knight
2017 · Sir Edmund Burton
The defining work
#1
Dr. Hannibal Lecter
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Performance score9.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Dr. Hannibal Lecter gives Anthony Hopkins a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Dr. Hannibal Lecter
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Performance score8.7
The Silence of the Lambs asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Dr. Hannibal Lecter is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Anthony
The Father (2020)
Performance score8.5
The Father asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Anthony is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movie#4
Frederick Treves
The Elephant Man (1980)
Performance score8.4
The Elephant Man asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Frederick Treves is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
View movieStart here
A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
Start here. The Silence of the Lambs is the clearest statement of what Anthony Hopkins does — accessible, 118 minutes, and rated 9.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Anthony at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
The Elephant Man (1980)
A deliberate change of key after The Silence of the Lambs — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Keeps the drama register of The Elephant Man but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Father (2020)
Keeps the drama register of The Silence of the Lambs but asks for a colder reading of it.
One Life (2023)
Keeps the drama register of The Father but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Richard Attenborough
Director
4 films together
Notably Chaplin
Jonathan Demme
Director
2 films together
Notably The Silence of the Lambs
James Ivory
Director
2 films together
Notably The Remains of the Day
Oliver Stone
Director
2 films together
Notably Nixon
Roger Donaldson
Director
2 films together
Notably The World's Fastest Indian
Fernando Meirelles
Director
2 films together
Notably The Two Popes
Florian Zeller
Director
2 films together
Notably The Father
Zack Snyder
Director
2 films together
Notably Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire
Anthony Harvey
Director
1 film together
Notably The Lion in Winter
David Lynch
Director
1 film together
Notably The Elephant Man
David Hugh Jones
Director
1 film together
Notably 84 Charing Cross Road
Michael Cimino
Director
1 film together
Notably Desperate Hours
Geoff Murphy
Director
1 film together
Notably Freejack
Francis Ford Coppola
Director
1 film together
Notably Bram Stoker's Dracula
Edward Zwick
Director
1 film together
Notably Legends of the Fall
Lee Tamahori
Director
1 film together
Notably The Edge
Steven Spielberg
Director
1 film together
Notably Amistad
Martin Campbell
Director
1 film together
Notably The Mask of Zorro
Martin Brest
Director
1 film together
Notably Meet Joe Black
Julie Taymor
Director
1 film together
Notably Titus
John Woo
Director
1 film together
Notably Mission: Impossible II
Ron Howard
Director
1 film together
Notably How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Ridley Scott
Director
1 film together
Notably Hannibal
Joel Schumacher
Director
1 film together
Notably Bad Company
Brett Ratner
Director
1 film together
Notably Red Dragon
Robert Benton
Director
1 film together
Notably The Human Stain
John Madden
Director
1 film together
Notably Proof
Emilio Estevez
Director
1 film together
Notably Bobby
Steven Zaillian
Director
1 film together
Notably All the King's Men
Alec Baldwin
Director
1 film together
Notably Shortcut to Happiness
Robert Zemeckis
Director
1 film together
Notably Beowulf
Gregory Hoblit
Director
1 film together
Notably Fracture
Woody Allen
Director
1 film together
Notably You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
Joe Johnston
Director
1 film together
Notably The Wolfman
Mikael Håfström
Director
1 film together
Notably The Rite
Kenneth Branagh
Director
1 film together
Notably Thor
Sacha Gervasi
Director
1 film together
Notably Hitchcock
Dean Parisot
Director
1 film together
Notably RED 2
Alan Taylor
Director
1 film together
Notably Thor: The Dark World
Darren Aronofsky
Director
1 film together
Notably Noah
Shintaro Shimosawa
Director
1 film together
Notably Misconduct
Eran Creevy
Director
1 film together
Notably Collide
Michael Bay
Director
1 film together
Notably Transformers: The Last Knight
Taika Waititi
Director
1 film together
Notably Thor: Ragnarok
Garret Price
Director
1 film together
Notably Love, Antosha
James Hawes
Director
1 film together
Notably One Life
Thom Zimny
Director
1 film together
Notably Sly
D.J. Caruso
Director
1 film together
Notably Mary
Bobby Moresco
Director
1 film together
Notably Maserati: The Brothers
Guy Ritchie
Director
1 film together
Notably Wife & Dog
Jodie Foster
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Silence of the Lambs
Scott Glenn
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Silence of the Lambs
Ted Levine
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Silence of the Lambs
Anthony Heald
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Silence of the Lambs
Brooke Smith
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Silence of the Lambs
Diane Baker
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Silence of the Lambs
Kasi Lemmons
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Silence of the Lambs
Frankie Faison
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Silence of the Lambs
Tracey Walter
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Silence of the Lambs
Charles Napier
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Silence of the Lambs
Danny Darst
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Silence of the Lambs
Alex Coleman
Actor
1 film together
Notably The Silence of the Lambs
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Richard Attenborough
Director
4 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 4 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
ChaplinJonathan Demme
Director
2 films together · 8.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Silence of the LambsFlorian Zeller
Director
2 films together · 7.4 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The FatherRoger Donaldson
Director
2 films together · 7.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The World's Fastest IndianJames Ivory
Director
2 films together · 7.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Remains of the DayFernando Meirelles
Director
2 films together · 6.6 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Two PopesOliver Stone
Director
2 films together · 6.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
NixonZack Snyder
Director
2 films together · 6.2 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of FireDavid Lynch
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Elephant ManJames Hawes
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
One LifeTaika Waititi
Director
1 film together · 7.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Thor: RagnarokFrancis Ford Coppola
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bram Stoker's DraculaGarret Price
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Love, AntoshaMartin Brest
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Meet Joe BlackGregory Hoblit
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FractureEdward Zwick
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Legends of the FallThom Zimny
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SlyDavid Hugh Jones
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
84 Charing Cross RoadBrett Ratner
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Red DragonKenneth Branagh
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ThorAnthony Harvey
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Lion in WinterRon Howard
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
How the Grinch Stole ChristmasSteven Spielberg
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AmistadLee Tamahori
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The EdgeRidley Scott
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HannibalAlan Taylor
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Thor: The Dark WorldMartin Campbell
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Mask of ZorroSacha Gervasi
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HitchcockDean Parisot
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
RED 2Emilio Estevez
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BobbyJohn Madden
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
ProofJulie Taymor
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
TitusD.J. Caruso
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MaryMichael Bay
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Transformers: The Last KnightMikael Håfström
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The RiteJohn Woo
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mission: Impossible IIRobert Benton
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Human StainJoe Johnston
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The WolfmanWoody Allen
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
You Will Meet a Tall Dark StrangerRobert Zemeckis
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BeowulfSteven Zaillian
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
All the King's MenDarren Aronofsky
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
NoahEran Creevy
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CollideShintaro Shimosawa
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MisconductAlec Baldwin
Director
1 film together · 5.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Shortcut to HappinessJoel Schumacher
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bad CompanyGeoff Murphy
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FreejackMichael Cimino
Director
1 film together · 5.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Desperate HoursGuy Ritchie
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wife & DogBobby Moresco
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Maserati: The BrothersSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
The Silence of the Lambs
as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The Elephant Man
as Frederick Treves
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The Silence of the Lambs
as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
as Narrator (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Silence of the Lambs
as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Anthony Hopkins has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
| Nutevio Performer Score | 8.0 | 9.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Career ranking | #457 of 681 | #1 of 681 |
| Awards on file | Unknown | 3 recorded |
| Oscar wins | Unknown | 1 |
| Oscar nominations | Unknown | 5 |
| Average Nutevio score | 9.2 | 9.1 |
| Genres | Thriller, Crime, Horror | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History |
| Directors | Jonathan Demme | Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese |
| Performance DNA | Intensity, Screen presence, Charisma | Transformation, Drama, Screen presence |
| Career timeline | 1991–1991 | 2006–2026 |
| Most iconic role | Dr. Hannibal Lecter — The Silence of the Lambs | Odysseus — The Odyssey |
| Most rewatchable film | The Silence of the Lambs | Interstellar |
| Filmography | 1 catalogue film | 4 catalogue films |
Films together
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared directors
Nothing in common in the library yet.
Shared collections
Thriller Movies, Crime Movies
Matt Damon edges ahead here — a higher floor across a comparable body of work.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
59 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Drama Legend
Awarded
46 catalogue titles in drama, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
The Silence of the Lambs
as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
The Silence of the Lambs
as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
One Life
as Nicholas Winton
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Blackway
as Lester
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Silence of the Lambs
as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver
as Jimmy (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Silence of the Lambs
as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Silence of the Lambs
as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
Across the library
Every Nutevio collection this name turns up in, and how high they rank there.
Collection footprint
Appears in 5 Nutevio collections
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