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Andy Serkis

Born 1964-04-20
📍 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).

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Filmography 126

The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum
as Gollum / Sméagol
2027
Untitled The Batman Sequel
as Alfred
2027
Young Washington
as General Edward Braddock
2026
Animal Farm
as Old Major / Mr. Jones / Rooster (voice)
2026
Hitpig!
as Newscaster (voice)
2024
Venom: The Last Dance
as Knull (voice)
2024
Blue Whales: Return of the Giants
as Narrator (voice)
2023
Luther: The Fallen Sun
as David Robey
2023
Creature
as (voice)
2023
Andor
as Kino Loy
2022
Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look
as Kino Loy (archive footage) (uncredited)
2022
The Batman
as Alfred
2022
Animal
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2021
SAS: Red Notice
as George Clements
2021
What If...?
as Ulysses Klaue (voice)
2021
A Christmas Carol
as Marley's Ghost (voice) / Old Joe (voice)
2020
The Savoy
as Self
2020
Once Upon a Time in Iraq: Fallujah
as Narrator
2020
Once Upon a Time in Iraq
as Narrator
2020
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
as Count Rugen
2020
The Animated World of Halas and Batchelor
as Self
2020
Reunited Apart
as Self
2020
FX's A Christmas Carol
as Ghost of Christmas Past
2019
A Christmas Carol
as Ghost of Christmas Past
2019
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
as Snoke (voice)
2019
Long Shot
as Parker Wembley
2019
Raymond Briggs: Snowmen, Bogeymen and Milkmen
as Self
2018
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
as Baloo (voice)
2018
Neanderthals - Meet Your Ancestors
as Self - Presenter
2018
GQ Presents: Iconic Characters
as Self
2018
The Director and the Jedi
as Self
2018
Black Panther
as Ulysses Klaue
2018
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
as Snoke
2017
War for the Planet of the Apes
as Caesar
2017
Secrets of the Force Awakens: A Cinematic Journey
as Self
2016
Fungus the Bogeyman
as Narrator
2015
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
as Supreme Leader Snoke
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest
2015
We Are Stars
as Narrator (voice)
2015
Avengers: Age of Ultron
as Ulysses Klaue
2015
The Late Late Show with James Corden
as Self - Guest
2015
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
as Caesar
2014
The Wil Wheaton Project
as Self
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
2014
The Frame
as Caesar
2013
The Last Leg
as Self
2013
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
as Gollum
2012
London: The Modern Babylon
as Spoken Quotations (voice)
2012
The Dark: Nature's Nighttime World
as Self - Narrator
2012
Arthur Christmas
as Lead Elf (voice)
2011
The Adventures of Tintin
as Captain Haddock / Sir Francis Haddock (voice)
2011
Wild Bill
as Glen
2011
The Jonathan Ross Show
as Self
2011
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
as Caesar
2011
Death of a Superhero
as Dr. Adrian King
2011
The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge
as Eadweard Muybridge
2010
Accused
as Liam Black
2010
Burke & Hare
as William Hare
2010
Brighton Rock
as Mr. Colleoni
2010
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
as Ian Dury
2010
Inkheart
as Capricorn
2008
Einstein and Eddington
as Albert Einstein
2008
Little Dorrit
as Rigaud
2008
The Cottage
as David
2008
Sugarhouse
as Hoodwink
2007
Monkey Life
as Self (Voice)
2007
Underground
as The Driver (Narrator)
2007
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
Recreating the Eighth Wonder: The Making of 'King Kong'
as Self
2006
Longford
as Ian Brady
2006
Flushed Away
as Spike (voice)
2006
The Prestige
as Alley
2006
Simon Schama's Power of Art
2006
Stormbreaker
as Mr. Grin
2006
King Kong: Peter Jackson's Production Diaries
as Self
2005
King Kong
as Kong / Lumpy
2005
Ringers: Lord of the Fans
as Self
2005
A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
as Self
2004
Stories of Lost Souls
as Granny / Rastafarian / Hunter Jackson
2004
The Culture Show
as Self
2004
The Present
as Self
2004
Blessed
as Father Carlo
2004
13 Going on 30
as Richard Kneeland
2004
The Making of 'The Return of the King'
as Self
2004
Standing Room Only
as Granny
2004
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
as Gollum / Smeagol
2003
The Making of 'The Long and Short of It'
as Self
2003
The Making of 'The Two Towers'
2003
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
as Gollum
2002
Deathwatch
as Pvt. Thomas Quinn
2002
Spooks
as Riff
2002
Icons
2002
The Escapist
as Ricky Barnes
2002
24 Hour Party People
as Martin
2002
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
as Gollum
2001
Pandaemonium
as John Thelwall
2001
Five Seconds to Spare
as Chester
2000
Shiner
as Mel
2000
The Jolly Boys' Last Stand
as Anthony 'Spider' Dale
2000
Arabian Nights
as Kasim
2000
Topsy-Turvy
as John D'Auban
1999
Oliver Twist
as Bill Sikes
1999
Sweety Barrett
as Leo King
1999
Shooting the Past
as Styeman
1999
Insomnia
as Harry
1999
Among Giants
as Bob
1998
Stella Does Tricks
as Fitz
1997
Loop
as Bill
1997
Mojo
as Potts
1997
Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse
as Sergeant Corrigan
1997
Career Girls
as Mr. Evans
1997
The Near Room
as Bunny
1997
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
as Self
1996
Finney
as Tom Finney
1994
Grushko
as Pyotr
1994
Pie in the Sky
as Maxwell
1994
Prince of Jutland
as Torsten
1994
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
1993
GMTV
as Self
1993
The Chief
as Jacko Dolan
1990
The Simpsons
as Cleanie (voice)
1989
Streetwise
as Owen
1989
The New Statesman
as Peter Moran
1987
The Bill
1984
Natural World
as Narrator
1983
LouisMax dreams of being an adult
as narrator