 But after her parents' divorce, Hopkins was raised in London by her mother and stepfather John Hopkins, returning to New York in 1976, at the age of 12.The following year she began her career in a summer stock production of "The Children's Hour" starring her mother and Joanne Woodward.In 1982, at the age of 18, Hopkins graduated from the Williston Northampton School, where she was a member of the Williston Widigers.