The Man Behind Hollywood’s Largest Motion Capture Characters

Andy Serkis is an English-Armenian film actor, director, and author. He is best known for his performance capture roles comprising motion capture acting, animation and voice work for such computer-generated characters as Gollum in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001-2003) and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012), the eponymous King Kong in the 2005 film, Caesar in Rise (2011) and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014), Captain Haddock / Sir Francis Haddock in Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin (2011) and Supreme Leader Snoke in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015).

Andy Serkis Performing Caesar

Andrew Clement G. Serkis was born April 20, 1964, in Ruislip Manor, West London, England. He has three sisters and a brother. His father, Clement Serkis, an Armenian whose original family surname was “Serkissian”, was a Medical Doctor working abroad, in Iraq; the Serkis family spent a lot of time traveling around the Middle East. For the first ten years of his life, Andy Serkis used to go backwards and forwards between Baghdad and London.

Andy Serkis on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Serkis also earned a Golden Globe Award nomination for his portrayal of serial killer Ian Brady in the British television film Longford (2006) and was nominated for a BAFTA Award for his portrayal of new wave and punk rock musician Ian Dury in the biopic Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (2010). In 2015, he had a small role in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015). Serkis has his own motion capture workshop, The Imaginarium Studios in London, which he will use for his directorial debut, Jungle Book (2018).

Andy Serkis Behind Creating Gollum: The Lord of the Rings

 

Source: IMDB. Andy Serkis Biography.

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