Andy Serkis

Known for ActingBorn 1964-04-20 (age 62)Ruislip, Middlesex, England, UK

Andrew Clement Serkis (born 20 April 1964) is an English actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his motion capture roles comprising motion capture acting, animation and voice work for computer-generated characters such as Gollum in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001–2003) and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012), King Kong in the eponymous 2005 film, Caesar in the Planet of the Apes reboot series (2011–2017), Captain Haddock / Sir Francis Haddock in Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin (2011), Baloo in his self-directed film Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018) and Supreme Leader Snoke in the Star Wars sequel trilogy films The Force Awakens (2015) and The Last Jedi (2017), also portraying Kino Loy in the Star Wars Disney+ series Andor (2022). Serkis's film work in motion capture has been critically acclaimed. He has received an Empire Award and two Saturn Awards for his motion-capture acting. He earned a BAFTA and a Golden Globe nomination for his portrayal of serial killer Ian Brady in the British television film Longford (2006). He was nominated for a BAFTA for his portrayal of new wave and punk rock musician Ian Dury in the biopic Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (2010). In 2020, Serkis received the BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema. In 2021, he won a Daytime Emmy Award for The Letter for the King (2020). Serkis portrayed Ulysses Klaue in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) films Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) and Black Panther (2018), as well as the Disney+ series What If...? (2021). He also played Alfred Pennyworth in The Batman (2022). Serkis has his own production company and motion-capture workshop, The Imaginarium, in London, which he used for Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle. He made his directorial debut with Imaginarium's 2017 film Breathe and also directed Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021). Description above from the Wikipedia article Andy Serkis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

The Frame

Insomnia

Once Upon a Time in Iraq: Fallujah

The Making of 'The Return of the King'

The Making of 'The Two Towers'

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Andor

Once Upon a Time in Iraq

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Animal

Pie in the Sky

What If...?

The Prestige

Simon Schama's Power of Art

Accused

The Dark: Nature's Nighttime World

The Savoy

Icons

Finney

The Simpsons

Streetwise

The Batman

Little Dorrit

Spooks

A Christmas Carol

Home Movie: The Princess Bride

GQ Presents: Iconic Characters

Fungus the Bogeyman

Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look

Breathe

The Bastard Son & the Devil Himself

King Kong: Peter Jackson's Production Diaries

Black Panther

Brilliant Minds

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Grushko

Avengers: Age of Ultron

The Director and the Jedi

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

War for the Planet of the Apes

FX's A Christmas Carol

The Graham Norton Show

The New Statesman

Late Night with Conan O'Brien