Anthony Hopkins is known for his portrayal of  Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor.
 He received two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series for The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (1976) and The Bunker (1981)
 He then reprised the role of Hannibal Lecter in the long awaited return from The Silence of the Lambs (1991) in its sequel simply entitled Hannibal (2001)

