Andy Serkis
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1964-04-20
Place of Birth
Ruislip, Middlesex, England, UK
Andy Serkis
Biography
Andrew Clement Serkis 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 portraying 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 series 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 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.
Also Known For
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Dec 18, 2001
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Dec 18, 2002
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Dec 17, 2003
King Kong
Dec 12, 2005
The Prestige
Oct 17, 2006
Inkheart
Dec 11, 2008
Luther: The Fallen Sun
Feb 24, 2023
13 Going on 30
Apr 13, 2004
24 Hour Party People
Feb 13, 2002
Blessed
May 16, 2004
Deathwatch
Oct 06, 2002
Creature
Feb 23, 2023
Stormbreaker
Jul 21, 2006
The Cottage
Feb 07, 2008
Shiner
Sep 22, 2000
Longford
Oct 26, 2006
Einstein and Eddington
Nov 29, 2008
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
Jan 08, 2010
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Aug 03, 2011
Brighton Rock
Sep 13, 2010
Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look
Sep 08, 2022
Topsy-Turvy
Dec 15, 1999
The Adventures of Tintin
Oct 24, 2011
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Dec 12, 2012
Career Girls
Jun 01, 1997
The Escapist
Apr 12, 2002
Burke & Hare
Oct 29, 2010
Sugarhouse
Aug 24, 2007
King Kong: Peter Jackson's Production Diaries
Dec 13, 2005
Five Seconds to Spare
Oct 30, 2000
Stories of Lost Souls
Nov 12, 2004
Death of a Superhero
May 04, 2011
Wild Bill
Oct 21, 2011
Extraordinary Rendition
Aug 20, 2007
The Man Who Saved Paris
Flushed Away
Oct 22, 2006
Recreating the Eighth Wonder: The Making of 'King Kong'
Nov 14, 2006
Mojo
Sep 02, 1997
Among Giants
Jun 24, 1998
Blue Whales: Return of the Giants
May 25, 2023
Stella Does Tricks
Nov 06, 1997
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Jul 08, 2014
Film Collectibles: Capturing Movie Memories
Jan 01, 2003
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Dec 15, 2015
The Present
Oct 31, 2004
We Are Stars
Jul 01, 2015
Animal Farm
Jun 09, 2025
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Apr 22, 2015
Black Panther
Feb 13, 2018
Insomnia
Jan 01, 1999
The Near Room
Apr 11, 1997
Fungus The Bogeyman
Dec 27, 2015
The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum
Dec 16, 2027
The Man with the Miraculous Hands
Sweety Barrett
Apr 16, 1999
Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse
Jul 01, 1997
A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
Dec 14, 2004
The Making of 'The Long and Short of It'
Aug 26, 2003
Untitled The Batman Sequel
Sep 30, 2027
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Dec 13, 2017
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
Nov 25, 2018
Pandaemonium
Jun 29, 2001
War for the Planet of the Apes
Jul 11, 2017
Hitpig!
Nov 01, 2024
The Magnificent Lion Boy
May 21, 2013
London: The Modern Babylon
Aug 03, 2012
Secrets of the Force Awakens: A Cinematic Journey
Apr 16, 2016
Arthur Christmas
Nov 10, 2011
Standing Room Only
Jan 12, 2004
Untitled Adventures of Tintin Sequel
Loop
Sep 19, 1997
Prince of Jutland
Feb 23, 1994
Long Shot
May 02, 2019
Great Performers: Horror Show
Dec 07, 2017
The Director and the Jedi
Mar 12, 2018
The Jolly Boys' Last Stand
Aug 18, 2000
Raymond Briggs: Snowmen, Bogeymen and Milkmen
Dec 31, 2018
A Christmas Carol
Dec 04, 2020
The Batman
Mar 01, 2022
Grushko
Mar 24, 1994
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Dec 18, 2019
FX's A Christmas Carol
Dec 19, 2019
The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge
Nov 30, 2010
The Animated World of Halas and Batchelor
Jul 11, 2019
Ringers: Lord of the Fans
Jan 21, 2005
SAS: Red Notice
Aug 11, 2021
Venom: The Last Dance
Oct 22, 2024
The Making of The Two Towers
Apr 01, 2003
The Making of the Return of the King
Apr 01, 2004
Once Upon a Time in Iraq: Fallujah
Jul 15, 2020
VENGEANCE IN THE MAKING
May 24, 2022
The Simpsons
Dec 17, 1989
The One Show
Aug 14, 2006
The Bill
Oct 16, 1984
Icons
May 01, 2002
HypaSpace
May 13, 2002
Spooks
May 13, 2002
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Sep 13, 1993
Little Dorrit
Oct 26, 2008
Oliver Twist
Nov 28, 1999
Simon Schama's Power of Art
Oct 19, 2006
The Jonathan Ross Show
Sep 03, 2011
Natural World
Oct 30, 1983
Monkey Life
Aug 13, 2007
GMTV
Jan 01, 1993
The Jump
Sep 06, 1998
What If...?
Aug 11, 2021
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Feb 25, 2014
Fungus the Bogeyman
Dec 27, 2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Sep 08, 2015
Pie in the Sky
Mar 13, 1994
Animal
Nov 10, 2021
The Graham Norton Show
Feb 22, 2007
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
Jun 29, 2020
Arabian Nights
Apr 30, 2000
The Savoy
Sep 30, 2020
Finney
Nov 17, 1994
The New Statesman
Sep 13, 1987
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Nov 12, 1996
Neanderthals - Meet Your Ancestors
May 13, 2018
The Dark: Nature's Nighttime World
Jul 29, 2012
The Frame
Apr 09, 2013
Accused
Nov 15, 2010
The Culture Show
Nov 11, 2004
Andor
Sep 21, 2022
Shooting the Past
Jan 10, 1999
Streetwise
Sep 25, 1989
Reunited Apart
Apr 27, 2020
GQ Presents: Iconic Characters
Mar 23, 2018
Once Upon a Time in Iraq
Jul 13, 2020
The Wil Wheaton Project
May 27, 2014
The Last Leg
Jan 25, 2013
