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Name
Andy Serkis

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1964-04-20 (62 years old)

Place of Birth
Ruislip, Middlesex, England, UK

Biography

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).

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Known For

Movies

Tv Shows

2002 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers as Gollum
2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King as Gollum / Smeagol
2001 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring as Gollum
2005 King Kong as Kong / Lumpy
2006 The Prestige as Alley
2008 Inkheart as Capricorn
2023 Luther: The Fallen Sun as David Robey
2004 13 Going on 30 as Richard Kneeland
2002 24 Hour Party People as Martin
2004 Blessed as Father Carlo
2002 Deathwatch as Pvt. Thomas Quinn
2023 Creature as (voice)
2006 Stormbreaker as Mr Grin
2008 The Cottage as David
2000 Shiner as Mel
2006 Longford as Ian Brady
2008 Einstein and Eddington as Albert Einstein
2010 Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll as Ian Dury
2011 Rise of the Planet of the Apes as Caesar
2010 Brighton Rock as Mr Colleoni
2022 Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look as Kino Loy (archive footage) (uncredited)
1999 Topsy-Turvy as John D'Auban
2011 The Adventures of Tintin as Captain Haddock / Sir Francis Haddock (voice)
2012 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey as Gollum
1997 Career Girls as Mr. Evans
2002 The Escapist as Ricky Barnes
2010 Burke & Hare as William Hare
2007 Sugarhouse as Hoodwink
2005 King Kong: Peter Jackson's Production Diaries as Self
2000 Five Seconds to Spare as Chester
2004 Stories of Lost Souls as Granny / Rastafarian / Hunter Jackson
2011 Death of a Superhero as Dr. Adrian King
2011 Wild Bill as Glen
2007 Extraordinary Rendition as Maro, Interrogator
Soon The Man Who Saved Paris as Chevenchy
2006 Flushed Away as Spike (voice)
2006 Recreating the Eighth Wonder: The Making of 'King Kong' as Self
1997 Mojo as Potts
1998 Among Giants as Bob
2023 Blue Whales: Return of the Giants as Narrator (voice)
1997 Stella Does Tricks as Fitz
2014 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes as Caesar
2015 Star Wars: The Force Awakens as Supreme Leader Snoke
2004 The Present as Self
2015 We Are Stars as Narrator (voice)
2026 Animal Farm as Mr. Jones / Rooster (voice)
2015 Avengers: Age of Ultron as Ulysses Klaue
2018 Black Panther as Ulysses Klaue
1999 Insomnia as Harry
1997 The Near Room as Bunny
2015 Fungus The Bogeyman
2027 The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum as Gollum / Sméagol
Soon The Man with the Miraculous Hands as Heinrich Himmler
1999 Sweety Barrett as Leo King
1997 Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse as Sergeant Corrigan
2004 A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King' as Self
2003 The Making of 'The Long and Short of It' as Self
2028 The Batman: Part II as Alfred
2017 Star Wars: The Last Jedi as Snoke
2018 Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle as Baloo (voice)
2001 Pandaemonium as John Thelwall
2017 War for the Planet of the Apes as Caesar
2024 Hitpig! as Newscaster (voice)
2013 The Magnificent Lion Boy as Umberto Farini
2012 London: The Modern Babylon as Spoken Quotations (voice)
2016 Secrets of the Force Awakens: A Cinematic Journey as Self
2011 Arthur Christmas as Lead Elf (voice)
2004 Standing Room Only as Granny
1997 Loop as Bill
1994 Prince of Jutland as Torsten
2019 Long Shot as Parker Wembley
2018 The Director and the Jedi as Self
2000 The Jolly Boys' Last Stand as Anthony 'Spider' Dale
2018 Raymond Briggs: Snowmen, Bogeymen and Milkmen as Self
2020 A Christmas Carol as Marley's Ghost (voice) / Old Joe (voice)
2022 The Batman as Alfred
1994 Grushko as Pyotr
2019 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker as Snoke (voice)
2019 FX's A Christmas Carol as Ghost of Christmas Past
2010 The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge as Eadweard Muybridge
2020 The Animated World of Halas and Batchelor as Self
2005 Ringers: Lord of the Fans as Self
2021 SAS: Red Notice as George Clements
2024 Venom: The Last Dance as Knull (voice)
2006 The Making of 'The Two Towers' as Self
2006 The Making of 'The Return of the King' as Self
2020 Once Upon a Time in Iraq: Fallujah as Narrator
2026 Young Washington as General Edward Braddock
2006 Stingray as Stingray (voice)
2007 Underground as The Driver (Narrator)
Soon LouiMax Dreams of Being an Adult as narrator
2026 Robert Richardson: The White Devil as Self
Soon Untitled The Adventures of Tintin Sequel as Captain Haddock
2026 Nevatars as Wasam (voice)
2017 Great Performers: Horror Show as The Demented Clown

1989 The Simpsons ( 1 episode ) as Cleanie (voice)
1984 The Bill ( 1 episode )
2002 Icons ( 1 episode )
2002 HypaSpace ( 1 episode ) as Self
2002 Spooks ( 1 episode ) as Riff
1993 Late Night with Conan O'Brien ( 2 episodes ) as Self - Guest
2008 Little Dorrit ( 14 episodes ) as Rigaud
1999 Oliver Twist ( 4 episodes ) as Bill Sikes
2006 Simon Schama's Power of Art ( 1 episode )
2011 The Jonathan Ross Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
1983 Natural World ( 1 episode ) as Narrator
2007 Monkey Life ( 14 episodes ) as Self (Voice)
1993 GMTV ( 1 episode ) as Self
1998 The Jump ( 4 episodes ) as Steven Brunos
2021 What If...? ( 1 episode ) as Ulysses Klaue (voice)
2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers ( 1 episode ) as Self
2015 Fungus the Bogeyman ( 3 episodes ) as Narrator
2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert ( 2 episodes ) as Self - Guest
1994 Pie in the Sky ( 1 episode ) as Maxwell
2021 Animal ( 1 episode ) as Self - Narrator (voice)
2007 The Graham Norton Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
2020 Home Movie: The Princess Bride ( 1 episode ) as Count Rugen
2000 Arabian Nights ( 2 episodes ) as Kasim
2020 The Savoy ( 1 episode ) as Self
1994 Finney ( 6 episodes ) as Tom Finney
1987 The New Statesman ( 2 episodes ) as Peter Moran
1996 Never Mind the Buzzcocks ( 1 episode ) as Self
2018 Neanderthals - Meet Your Ancestors ( 2 episodes ) as Self - Presenter
2012 The Dark: Nature's Nighttime World ( 3 episodes ) as Self - Narrator
2013 The Frame ( 1 episode ) as Caesar
2010 Accused ( 1 episode ) as Liam Black
2004 The Culture Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
2022 Andor ( 3 episodes ) as Kino Loy
1999 Shooting the Past ( 3 episodes ) as Styeman
1989 Streetwise ( 19 episodes ) as Owen
2020 Reunited Apart ( 1 episode ) as Self
2018 GQ Presents: Iconic Characters ( 1 episode ) as Self
2020 Once Upon a Time in Iraq ( 5 episodes ) as Narrator
2014 The Wil Wheaton Project ( 1 episode ) as Self
2013 The Last Leg ( 1 episode ) as Self
1990 The Chief ( 1 episode ) as Jacko Dolan
2015 The Late Late Show with James Corden ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
2019 A Christmas Carol ( 3 episodes ) as Ghost of Christmas Past
2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live! ( 1 episode ) as Self
2022 The Legend of Vox Machina ( 4 episodes ) as Gideon (voice)
2019 The Kelly Clarkson Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
2013 Rick and Morty ( 1 episode ) as (voice)
1989 Morris Minor's Marvellous Motors ( 6 episodes ) as Sparky Plugg

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