Anthony Hopkins Is Writing His Biography

Jodie Foster’s Clarice Starling once asked Dr. Hannibal Lecter in the 1991 iconic movie, The Silence of the Lambs, “Why don’t you look at yourself and write down what you see?”.

Anthony Hopkins, who played the cannibal doctor, is finally taking that advice.

“I’m writing a biography. It’s a weird process” the 86-year-old actor told People.

Hopkins disclosed he has good recall of events.

"I realized how I’m blessed with one thing. Maybe it’s my actor’s brain. I do have quite a memory. I remember days of months in the years,”.

Hopkins added that his wife of 20 years, Stella, 67, is also currently working on a documentary about his life.

While it is not know how far along the documentary is, but Stella has carte blanche to cover everything.

“I don’t know. I don’t ask her. It’s quite a lot of film. I don’t know when it’s going to come out,” Hopkins said.

The two-time Oscar winner added Stella interviewed his The Silence of the Lambs costar Jodie Foster for the biography.

Hopkins was born on December 31, 1937in southern Wales and claims he was the “school dummy,” he was so directionless his father was in “despair,” he added, prompting young Hopkins to adopt a resolution.

“I said, ‘One day I will show you, both of you,’ ” he recalled.

After studying at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, Hopkins served as an understudy for Sir Laurence Olivier at London’s Royal National Theatre.

Hopkins went on to appear in such lauded films as The Remains of the Day, Nixon, and Amistad. 

He reached the top of the mountain in 2021, when at age 83, he became the oldest person to win a Best Actor Oscar for his performance in The Father.

Hopkins currently stars in the movie "Freud’s Last Session", playing father of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud.

“I’m just fortunate,” Hopkins said. “I went through ups and downs and depressions and despair and anger and all that stuff, but gradually the last few years [I’ve been] thinking, ‘Well, I’m still here.’ ”