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Andy Serkis

Also known as Andrew Clement Serkis, Andrew C. G. Serkis

English actor (born 1964)

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Andy Serkis is an English actor born in 1964 who is known for pioneering the use of motion-capture technology to bring digital characters to life in major films. His work in this innovative performance technique has made him one of the most influential actors in modern cinema, particularly for roles like Gollum in "The Lord of the Rings" and Caesar in "The Planet of the Apes" films.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 20 April 1964
Works: 8

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Film & TV

Acting · Ruislip, Middlesex, England, UK

Known for

The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum — Gollum / Sméagol2027
Untitled The Batman Sequel — Alfred2027
Animal Farm — Mr. Jones / Rooster (voice)2026
Young Washington — General Edward Braddock2026
Hitpig! — Newscaster (voice)2024
Venom: The Last Dance — Knull (voice)2024
Luther: The Fallen Sun — David Robey2023
Creature — (voice)2023
Blue Whales: Return of the Giants — Narrator (voice)2023
Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look — Kino Loy (archive footage) (uncredited)2022

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Country: United Kingdom
Active from: 1964

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Listeners: 105
Total plays: 2,607

Andrew C. G. "Andy" Serkis (born 20 April 1964, Ruislip, Middlesex) is an English actor, director and author. He is popularly known for playing Gollum in "The Lord of the Rings" film trilogy. Serkis' most critically acclaimed roles have been Sméagol/Gollum, in The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy (2001–03), the title character in the 2005 version of King Kong, in which he provided both the voice and movements for the CGI character as well as the ship's cook, and as 1970s new wave star Ian Dury i

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5 total works indexed

A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,368x
Very high resolution interpolated climate surfaces for global land areas
· 2005 · cited 16,544x
Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy
· 2013 · cited 13,117x
Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 13,058x
A view of cloud computing
· 2010 · cited 6,759x

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Image: Andy Serkis Comic-Con 2011.jpg
Number of children: 3

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Commons category: Andy Serkis
date of birth: 1964-04-20
birth name: Andrew Clement Serkis
Commons gallery: Andy Serkis
start of work period: 1989-00-00
social media followers: 282488

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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).

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 television film Longford (2006) and 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).