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Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins, CBE, is a Welsh film actor, director, and producer, who is considered to be one of the greatest living actors. He is best known for narrating the 2000 live-action film adaptation of How the Grinch Stole Christmas and his role as serial killer Hannibal Lecter in Jonathan Demme's 1991 psychological horror thriller film The Silence of the Lambs (in which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor), and reprised this role in its 2001 sequel Hannibal and its 2002 prequel Red Dragon. Other roles include Mr. James Stevens in the 1993 period drama film The Remains of the Day (in which he received a Best Leading Actor Academy Award nomination), John Quincy Adams in Steven Spielberg's 1997 historical drama film Amistad, and Pope Benedict XVI in the 2019 biographical drama film The Two Popes (in which he received the latter two Best Supporting Actor Academy Award nominations), as well as a man struggling with dementia in the 2020 drama film The Father, in which he won his second Academy Award for Best Actor and at the age of 83, making him the oldest winner of an acting Oscar to date for the latter film, surpassing the record from the late Christopher Plummer (whom the latter was 82 upon receiving his Academy Award win for Beginners in 2010).

For Disney, he played former U.S. President Richard Nixon in the 1995 Hollywood Pictures film Nixon, Officer Gaylord Oakes in the 2002 Touchstone Pictures film Bad Company, and Odin Borson in the 2011 Marvel film Thor and its two sequels. He also played Dr. Ethan Powell in Instinct.

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