You Will Meet A Tall Dark Strangers

ABOUT THE CAST

ANTHONY HOPKINS (Alfie), received an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS in 1991 and was subsequently nominated in the same category for his performances in THE REMAINS OF THE DAY (1993) and NIXON (1995). He also won the Best Actor Award from the British Academy of Film & Television Arts for THE REMAINS OF THE DAY. In 1993, he starred in Attenborough’s SHADOWLANDS with Debra Winger and won numerous critics awards in the U.S. and Britain including the BAFTA for Best Actor. In 1998, he was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance in Steven Spielberg’s AMISTAD.

Hopkins can next be seen in Woody Allen’s You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger opposite Josh Brolin and Naomi Watts, as well as in Joe Johnston’s THE WOLFMAN. He is currently filming THOR at Marvel Studios, with Kenneth Branagh directing.

Other recent acting credits include FRACTURE, in which he stars opposite Ryan Gosling; ALL THE KING’S MEN, directed by Steven Zaillian and co-starring Sean Penn, Jude Law and Kate Winslet; THE WORLD’S FASTEST INDIAN, written and directed by Roger Donaldson; PROOF, directed by John Madden and co-starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Gwyneth Paltrow; and Oliver Stone’s ALEXANDER, in which he stars opposite Colin Farrell and Angelina Jolie. In 2001, Hopkins starred opposite Julianne Moore in Ridley Scott’s HANNIBAL, the sequel to SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. In the late 1990s, he starred opposite Brad Pitt in MEET JOE BLACK, directed by Martin Brest; in THE MASK OF ZORRO, directed by Martin Campbell and co-starring Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones; in INSTINCT, directed by Jon Turletaub; and opposite Jessica Lange in TITUS, Julie Taymor’s film adaptation of
Shakespeare’s TITUS ANDRONICUS. He also narrated the 2000 holiday season hit DR. SEUSS’ HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS.

Hopkins also appeared in the feature adaptation of Stephen King’s HEARTS IN ATLANTIS for director Scott Hicks; the action comedy BAD COMPANY, co-starring Chris Rock; the boxoffice hit prequel to SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, RED DRAGON, co-starring Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes and Emily Watkins; and in Miramax Films’ adaptation of the Phillip Roth novel THE HUMAN STAIN opposite Nicole Kidman.

Previous film credits include SURVIVING PICASSO, in which he played the title role opposite Julianne Moore; the David Mamet-penned THE EDGE; HOWARD’S END; BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA; and LEGENDS OF THE FALL. His early credits include THE ELEPHANT MAN, MAGIC, A BRIDGE TOO FAR, and THE BOUNTY. He received two Emmy Awards for “The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case,” in which he portrayed Bruno Hauptmann and “The Bunker,” in which he portrayed Adolf Hitler.

Hopkins currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife Stella and is also a composer and a painter.

GEMMA JONES (Helena), , one of Britain’s most acclaimed actresses, is best known in the US for her roles as Bridget’s mother in BRIDGET JONES’S DIARY, and BRIDGET JONES: THE EDGE OF REASON; Madam Poppy Pomfrey, the matron of the Hospital Wing of Hogwarts School, in HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS, HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE, and upcoming, HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS; and as Mrs. Dashwood, mother to Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet, in Ang Lee’s SENSE AND SENSIBILITY.

After making her debut in Ken Russell’s THE DEVILS, Jones’ other notable film credits include APERHOUSE, FEAST OF JULY, WILDE, THE THEORY OF FLIGHT, THE WINSLOW BOY, CAPTAIN JACK, SHANGHAI NIGHTS, FRAGILE, GOOD, and FORGET ME NOT, which is set to premiere at the London Independent Film Festival.

The daughter of British actor Griffith Jones, Gemma (born Jennifer) Jones trained at RADA where she won the Gold Medal in 1962. Shortly after graduating, she appeared in “The Cavern,” for which she won Clarence Derwent Award for Best Supporting Actress of the Year, and she has primarily concentrated n her stage and television career until recently. Among her many notable performances include “Baal” (Johanna), “The Merchant of Venice” (Portia) “Saint Joan,” “Hamlet” (Ophelia), “A Streetcar Named Desire” (Blanche Du Bois), “Cabaret” (Sally Bowles), “Macbeth” (Lady Macbeth), “King Lear” (Goneril), “The Master Builder” (Aline Solness) “Tolstoy” (Sonya Tolstoy), “The Glass Menagerie” (Amanda), “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” (Big Mama), and recently, roles in “Everything is Illuminated,” “On Religion,” and “Family Reunion” at the Donmar Warehouse.

Jones toured throughout the world in the early 1970s with Peter Brook’s famed production of “A Midsummer Night's Dream” and appeared in the US with the National Theatre’s 1994 production of “The Winter’s Tale.”

She is fondly remembered in this country for her starring role as the lower-class cook turned upper-crust hotelier in two series of the BBC’s “The Duchess of Duke Street,” for which she won her third BAFTA nomination. She had received her first BAFTA nomination for “Play for Today: The Lie” (written by Ingmar Bergman) and “The Spoils of Poynton,” and her second for “BBC Play of the Month: The Cherry Orchard” and “Play for Today: The Man in the Sidecar.” Her other television work includes “Jane Eyre,” “The Borrowers,” the BAFTA-award winning “Longitude,” “Trial & Retribution,” “Spooks” (aka “MI-5”), and “Ballet Shoes.”

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR

Woody Allen
Academy Awards summary
Nominated six times for Best Director; won for Annie Hall
Nominated fourteen times for Best Original Screenplay; won for Annie Hall and Hannah and Her Sisters
Nominated one time for Best Actor
Two films nominated for Best Picture; won for Annie Hall