Sir Philip Anthony “Tony” Hopkins is a man of many talents. He is a film, theater and television actor, painter and composer. He is best known for starring in films like The Mask of Zorro, Silence of the Lambs and Meet Joe Black. Anthony Hopkins is said to go through the script of every role he plays more than 200 times until it starts to sound natural across the board. With that amount of hard work, it’s no wonder his career was successful as he became one of the best in his industry.
Read here, all about his bio, family, net worth and height.
Anthony Hopkins Biography
Sir Anthony was born on New Year’s Eve on December 31, 1937, in Margam, a suburb of Port Talbot, Glamorgan, to Annie Muriel and Richard Arthur Hopkins, who were his father and mother respectively.
He hated school and preferred to have himself paint, draw, and play the piano while occasionally giving attention to his studies. This made him unproductive at school due to the dissatisfaction and worry of his hard-working and struggling parents. They resorted to sending him to boarding school in 1949 to possibly impose some much needed discipline on him and their choice of school was Jones’ West Monmouth Boys’ School in Pontypool. He studied for 5 terms before being sent to Cowbridge High School in the Vale of Glamorgan. During this time, he never reduced his love for the arts, which would pay him a lot.
He met fellow Welsh actor Richard Burton by the age of 15 and this further encouraged him in his acting interest and at 17 he joined the YMCA group. He later enrolled at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in Cardiff, graduating in 1957. He joined the British Army and served for 2 years, then moved to London where he eventually studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Family: wife, daughter
Anthony Hopkins has been on the road to marriage 3 times, filing 2 divorces and was in his last marriage to date. He was married to Petronella Barker from 1966 to 1972. During those six years of marriage, he had a daughter with his wife, Abigail Rhiannedd Hopkins. Just like her father, she is a top-flight actress, theater manager, songwriter and performer.
Abigail was born on August 20, 1968 in Putney, London, England. For her movie career, she had roles in Shadowlands and The Remains of the Day which both played her father. She has also played various roles in theater and her musical career saw her release her debut album titled Smile Road in 2003 which was followed by Allée de satin bleu in 2005. The success of this album was followed by The Guardian of flagship ( EP, 2007) while her latest album is Memoirs of an Outlaw from 2008. She is still single.
Back to our main subject, Anthony Hopkins, having divorced Abigail’s mother in 1972, he married Jennifer Lynton in 1973 and they remained together until 2002, before he called his resignation and married Stella Arroyave on the 1st March 2003. He and Stella kept it together until today. He celebrated his 10th wedding anniversary with her on Christmas Eve in 2002 at St David’s Cathedral in Pembrokeshire, West Wales.
Anthony had no other children from his second and present marriages. Therefore, Abigail Hopkins is his only known daughter and there are no rumors that he will have a child outside of his known marriages.
Anthony Hopkins Net worth How much is he worth?
An actor as successful as him is certainly worthmillions of dollars. His acting career saw him star in many films, which changed his fortunes from being a poor student at school who suffered from an inferiority complex and hated academics to one of the best in the film industry.
Anthony Hopkins has a net worth of over $160million which saw him take the No. 1 spot on People with Money’s top 10 highest paid actors of 2017. He still doesn’t have enough to act and is touring. still. This should probably see his net worth increasing more and more.
the size
His height is 5 feet 8 inches.
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