Anthony Hopkins

Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins, CBE (born December 31, 1937) is a Welsh film, stage, and television actor and composer who is considered to be one of the greatest living actors. He is well known for his role as serial killer Hannibal Lecter in the 1991 thriller film The Silence of the Lambs, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor, its 2001 sequel Hannibal, and its 2002 prequel Red Dragon.

He played former U.S. President Richard Nixon in the 1995 Hollywood Pictures film Nixon, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor, and will play Odin in the upcoming 2013 Marvel action film Thor: The Dark World.