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Lecter had a larger role in The Silence of the Lambs (1988); the 1991 film adaptation starred Anthony Hopkins as Lecter, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Hopkins reprised the role for the 2001 adaptation of the 1999 novel Hannibal, which sees Lecter evading recapture, and for a second adaptation of Red Dragon in 2002.
The series has since expanded into film and television, having four timeline-connected franchise films: The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Hannibal (2001), Red Dragon (2002) and Hannibal Rising (2007), with three starring Anthony Hopkins.
Hopkins is an Oscar-winning actor, having received six Academy award nominations winning two of these for Best Actor for his performances as the serial killer Hannibal Lecter in the Jonathan Demme psychological thriller The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and Anthony, a man struggling with dementia in Florian Zeller's drama The Father (2020).
While Succession's Brian Cox played him first, Sir Anthony Hopkins immortalised the cannibalistic psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter in the Oscar-trawling Silence of the Lambs in 1991.
Hopkins at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2010. Welsh actor, producer, director and writer Anthony Hopkins has been acting since 1960. Between then and the 1970s, he appeared in the films The Lion in Winter (1968), Hamlet (1969), Young Winston (1972), Audrey Rose (1977) and playing Col. Frost in A Bridge Too Far (1977).
The first, of course, was for his memorable turn as serial killer Hannibal Lecter in the 1991 thriller, "Silence of the Lambs." Along with his Oscars, Hopkins has won two Emmys, four BAFTAs, a ...
Hopkins first won acclaim after playing cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1991.
Hannibal is a 2001 American thriller film directed by Ridley Scott, based on the 1999 novel by Thomas Harris.A sequel to the 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs, the plot follows disgraced FBI special agent Clarice Starling as she attempts to apprehend the cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter before his surviving victim, Mason Verger, captures him.