Anthony Hopkins is a Welsh actor who was born in Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales on December 31th, 1937. He is 5 ft. 8 in tall, and his current Net Worth is $380 million.
Personal Life
Anthony Hopkins was born in Wales December 31th, 1937. He is the son of Muriel and Richard Arthur, and they were half English and half Welsh. Hopkins was influenced by Richard Burton, and for that he decided to study at College of Music and Drama, he graduated in 1957.
Later on he moved to England, London, looking for a job in acting, he found it in the National Theatre, was invited by Laurence Olivier, who saw the talent in Anthony. He made his first appearance in films for television in 1967, in the movie “A Flea in Her Ear”.
Career
Hopkins was known as Gunner Hopkins in the British National Service, in the part as a Royal Artilleryman. Later on, he chose a part in the Bram Stoker’s Dracula of 1992, he was the Professor Van Helsing. His greatest part was in the movie The Silence of the Lambs, where his part was a cannibal, charismatic and a serial killer, Hannibal Lecter, of 1991. But he will not be remembered only for that role in the future.
Hopkins has given life to a lot of historical figures in a lot of movies and TV Series, from writers, to presidents, even a military leader. The better characters he has played includes Alfred Hitchcock, Charles Dickens, Richard Nixon, Yitzhak Rabin, John Quincy Adams, and many others.
When he was filming “Amistad” in 1997, Hopkins surprised the crew, the cast and even Steven Spielberg by memorizing a speech in one go seven pages long. Spielberg calls him “Sir Anthony” for that moment.
This year will see him in the Transformers: The Last Knight, but for the moment, Anthony it’s taking a break from his work.
His Net Worth
The Net Worth of this actor was made with a hard work and dedication, all his life has been dedicated to acting and making great movies. In his fortune we included his car collection, that’s very huge. He owns the best luxury cars in the world, like a Bentley, GM, BMW, and so many others.
Also Hopkins has his house in Malibu, California, this is a luxury home that its value in the Real Estate, is to be over $18.6 million. Anthony Hopkins Net Worth is expected to grow a lot more, in the next years the experts think that the Net Worth of this actor grow over 35%.
Anthony Hopkins is considered one of the best actors in the present, and even when he is 80 years old, he continues working, and have so many projects in the movies and TV Series for the next years to come.
