Welsh born Anthony Hopkins was brought up living above his father & # 39; s bakery in a small town. Hopkins & # 39; bedroom overlooked the bright lights of the local cinema and his early movie star heroes were Bogart and James Cagney, as well as the nearer to home Richard Burton who the young Hopkins once visited on the other day home to Wales to get the star & # 39; s autograph. Hopkins from thereon aspired to being a Hollywood star, like Burton and all that dream of silver screen fame embodied. The young Hopkins was not academic but enjoyed at the Welsh College of music and drama in Cardiff. After completion of his national service in the army he earned a place at RADA These days Sir Anthony Hopkins is known not only as a gifted, award-winning British actor but also accomplished pianist, composer, emerging artist and budding author penning his autobiography.
Sir Anthony Hopkins achieved Hollywood fame and the American dream he had pursued from the outside, hampered by personal problems and a chronic addiction to alcohol which he also managed to triumph over. At the age of 54 Anthony Hopkins won an Oscar for Best Actor in 1991 for his Hannibal-the-Cannibal Lecter performance in "The Silence of The Lambs" and his career suddenly took off on an unbelievable scale bringing him deserved worldwide recognition which continues to this day, following outstanding performances in movies such as "Nixon", " Shadowlands "and" The City of Your Final Destination "to name but a few.
In 2000 Sir Anthony Hopkins became a US citizen, but he was able to keep his knighthood and title.
In 2008 the Dallas Symphony Orchestra gave the first public rendition of Sir Anthony Hopkins "compositions. Recently in Try to be piano lessons as a child but he insisted he was not disciplined enough. "The Wolfman" movie Hopkins requested to play the piano, simply improvising when the scene was shot as it was spontaneous! In the movie "The City of Your Final Destination" which has just released, Hopkins performances "Venetian Medley" which he also composed.
It was Hopkins' third and present wife Stella who encouraged him to show his art in America and then this year in the UK - his work is vibrant, somewhat eccentric and vivid - he main paints landscapes, portraits and abstracts in his own studio at his home in Malibu. Of his love of painting the artist says "When I paint, I just paint freely without anxiety as outside as as criticisms.
Anthony Hopkins latest venture, out writing his autobiography, which he started at the beginning of this year. Many good biographies have been written about the actor but it will be interesting to hear about his life from his own perspective and sometimes some new personal anecdotes from the man himself.
