LOS ANGELES — British actor Anthony Hopkins won his second Oscar on Sunday for his heart-wrenching performance as a man with dementia in “The Father.”
Hopkins, 83, has a six-decade film, TV and stage career, but is perhaps best known for playing the brilliant but twisted murderer Hannibal Lecter in the 1991 thriller “The Silence of the Lambs,” for which he won his first Oscar.
His best lead actor win on Sunday made him the oldest actor to get an Academy Award, an honor previously held by the late Christopher Plummer.
In “The Father,” Hopkins plays an aging man who has refused any help from his family and who is beginning to doubt what is real and what is imagined. It is ad…
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