Anthony Hopkins: net worth, age, height, wife and children

Anthony Hopkins, born Philip Anthony Hopkins on December 31, 1937, in Port Talbot, Wales, is an 88-year-old Welsh actor whose estimated net worth is $120 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. Knighted in 1993 and a citizen of both the United Kingdom and the United States, he is regarded as one of the greatest actors of his generation, winning two Academy Awards for Best Actor, for The Silence of the Lambs and, three decades later, for The Father, which made him the oldest winner of that award. He has been married to Stella Arroyave since 2003 and has one daughter, Abigail.

Quick facts

Biography and early life

Philip Anthony Hopkins was born in the Margam district of Port Talbot, Wales, on December 31, 1937, so his birthday is New Year’s Eve and he turns 89 on December 31, 2026. According to Wikipedia, he is the son of Annie Muriel Hopkins, née Yeates, and Richard Arthur Hopkins, a baker whose working-class values Hopkins has said have always underscored his life. His school days were unproductive by his own account: he preferred painting, drawing and playing the piano to study, was sent to Jones’ West Monmouth Boys’ School in Pontypool to instill discipline, and later attended Cowbridge Grammar School, growing up, as he put it in a 2002 interview, convinced he was a poor learner.

The turning point was meeting fellow Welsh actor Richard Burton at the age of 15; Burton had grown up near the same town, and the encounter inspired Hopkins to enroll at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff, from which he graduated in 1957. After two years of national service with the Royal Artillery between 1958 and 1960, he moved to London and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating in 1963. In 1965 Laurence Olivier spotted him in repertory and invited him to join the Royal National Theatre, where Hopkins became Olivier’s understudy and famously stepped into the lead of The Dance of Death when Olivier was struck by appendicitis. His stage work at the National included King Lear, Coriolanus, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra, and he won a Laurence Olivier Award for Pravda in 1985; his last stage play was a West End production of M. Butterfly in 1989.

Career: stage, screen and two Academy Awards

Hopkins’s early film roles included Richard the Lionheart in The Lion in Winter (1968), which earned him a BAFTA nomination, followed by A Bridge Too Far (1977), Magic (1978) and The Elephant Man (1980), in which he played Dr. Frederick Treves. On television he won the BAFTA Television Award for Best Actor for the BBC’s War and Peace (1972) and two Primetime Emmy Awards, for The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (1976) and The Bunker (1981), in which he played Adolf Hitler. Through the 1980s he balanced National Theatre work with films including The Bounty (1984) and 84 Charing Cross Road (1987).

Worldwide fame arrived in 1991 with his portrayal of Dr. Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs. The performance, delivered in a limited amount of screen time, won him the Academy Award for Best Actor and his first BAFTA for leading actor, and the character was later ranked by the American Film Institute as the greatest screen villain of its first hundred years of cinema polling. He returned to the role in Hannibal (2001) and Red Dragon (2002). The decade that followed Silence made him one of the most respected actors in film: Howards End and Bram Stoker’s Dracula in 1992, The Remains of the Day (1993), for which he was Oscar-nominated as the repressed butler Stevens, Shadowlands (1993), Legends of the Fall (1994), Nixon (1995), another Oscar nomination for playing the American president, Amistad (1997) and The Mask of Zorro (1998). He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1993 for services to drama.

His later career mixed franchise work with acclaimed character roles. He played Odin in Marvel’s Thor (2011), Thor: The Dark World (2013) and Thor: Ragnarok (2017), starred in the HBO series Westworld from 2016 to 2018, played Pope Benedict XVI opposite Jonathan Pryce in The Two Popes (2019), which brought another Oscar nomination, and in 2020 starred in The Father as an elderly man living with dementia. That performance won him his fourth BAFTA and his second Academy Award for Best Actor at the 2021 ceremony; at 83, he became the oldest Best Actor Oscar winner, and Celebrity Net Worth describes him as the oldest actor to receive the honor. His preparation method, learning his lines by repeating them hundreds of times, is frequently cited by collaborators, and his range across butlers, presidents, gods and Lecter explains comparisons sometimes drawn between screen acting and the patient, structured subjects explained in a guide to the Big Bang theory for complete beginners, where a long career of small, exact steps builds to a single large result.

Acting was never his only art. According to Celebrity Net Worth, music was his first love before acting: he released a single, “Distant Star,” in 1986, his composition “The Masque of Time” was premiered by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and in 2012 he released Composer, an album of his own classical compositions. He has also directed, making his directorial debut in 1990 with Dylan Thomas: Return Journey, and written screenplays. His philanthropy has a Welsh center: he served as president of the National Trust’s Snowdonia Appeal, raising funds to preserve Snowdonia National Park in his native Wales, and he has supported Greenpeace, narrating television advertisements for the group from 2008. Painting and drawing, the interests that filled his school days in Port Talbot, have remained part of his daily life and now reach a wide audience through his social media posts.

The industry has marked the length of the career with its highest lifetime honors. He received the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globes in 2005 and the BAFTA Fellowship, the British academy’s lifetime achievement honor, in 2008, adding to two Academy Awards, four BAFTAs, two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Laurence Olivier Award. Few actors have held major honors from both the British stage establishment that trained him and the Hollywood industry he joined later, and that dual recognition mirrors his dual citizenship and his working life on both sides of the Atlantic.

Movies and television shows

Hopkins’s screen credits cover more than six decades. His best-known films and shows include the following.

• The Lion in Winter (1968)
• War and Peace (1972, television)
• A Bridge Too Far (1977) and Magic (1978)
• The Elephant Man (1980)
• The Bunker (1981, television)
• 84 Charing Cross Road (1987) and Howards End (1992)
• The Silence of the Lambs (1991), as Hannibal Lecter
• Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
• The Remains of the Day (1993) and Shadowlands (1993)
• Legends of the Fall (1994)
• Nixon (1995) and Amistad (1997)
• The Mask of Zorro (1998)
• Hannibal (2001) and Red Dragon (2002)
• Thor (2011), Thor: The Dark World (2013) and Thor: Ragnarok (2017), as Odin
• The Dresser (2015, television) and Westworld (2016-2018, television)
• King Lear (2018, television)
• The Two Popes (2019)
• The Father (2020)

Net worth

According to Celebrity Net Worth, Anthony Hopkins has a net worth of $120 million. Some secondary listings run higher, toward $160 million, but the Celebrity Net Worth figure is the anchored estimate used here. The documented earnings behind it include one of the strongest salary runs of any actor of his era: Celebrity Net Worth reports that he earned $15 million to return as Lecter in Hannibal (2001) and $20 million for Red Dragon (2002), along with $5 million for a small supporting role in Mission: Impossible II and $15 million for The Wolfman (2010). Decades of leading roles, television work including Westworld, composing and directing work, and substantial Los Angeles real estate holdings make up the wider picture. As with every such figure, no public filing confirms the total, and the $120 million should be read as a published estimate rather than a confirmed account.

Personal life and family

Hopkins has been married three times. His first marriage, to actress Petronella Barker from 1966 to 1972, produced his only child, his daughter Abigail Hopkins, who works as an actor and singer; father and daughter have been estranged for many years, a state of affairs Hopkins himself acknowledged factually in a 2018 interview, and no further detail is stated here. His second marriage was to Jennifer Lynton, from 1973 to 2002. Since 2003 he has been married to Stella Arroyave. On nationality, he is Welsh and British by birth and upbringing, and on April 12, 2000, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States while retaining his British citizenship, so he holds both. His parents were Richard Arthur Hopkins, the Port Talbot baker whose influence he has often cited, and Annie Muriel Hopkins. Celebrity Net Worth reported that his Pacific Palisades property was destroyed in the January 2025 Palisades Fire, a loss reported at the time without injury to Hopkins or his wife.

Instagram and public presence

Anthony Hopkins’s official Instagram account is @anthonyhopkins, and he is genuinely and unusually active on it for an actor of his generation, posting videos of himself playing the piano, dancing, painting in his studio and marking holidays and birthdays, alongside promotion for his films and his artwork. The account has become a distinct part of his public identity in his eighties. Because follower counts change daily, no exact follower figure is stated as fact here; readers should rely on the verified @anthonyhopkins account and treat similarly named profiles as fan pages.

Closing summary

Anthony Hopkins’s profile runs from a Port Talbot bakery family and an unhappy school record to the summit of screen acting. Born Philip Anthony Hopkins on December 31, 1937, to Annie and Richard Hopkins, he trained at RADA, served under Olivier at the National Theatre, and built a film career crowned by Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs and, at 83, a record-setting second Best Actor Oscar for The Father. A dual British and American citizen since 2000, married to Stella Arroyave since 2003 and the father of Abigail, he holds an estimated net worth of $120 million according to Celebrity Net Worth.