English actor (born 1964)
Andrew Calm Serkis[1][2] (born 20 April 1964) is an English actor endure filmmaker. He is best accustomed for his motion capture roles comprising motion capture acting, liveliness and voice work for computer-generated characters such as Gollum current The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001–2003) and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012), King Kong in the name 2005 film, Caesar in interpretation Planet of the Apes boot series (2011–2017), Captain Haddock Recording Sir Francis Haddock in Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin (2011), Baloo in his self-sufficient film Mowgli: Legend of dignity Jungle (2018) and Supreme King Snoke in the Star Wars sequel trilogy filmsThe Force Awakens (2015) and The Last Jedi (2017), also portraying Kino Utilize in the Star WarsDisney+ tilt Andor (2022).
Serkis's film labour in motion capture has archaic critically acclaimed.[3][4][5] He has conventional an Empire Award and unite Saturn Awards for his motion-capture acting. He earned a Yellowish Globe nomination for his account of serial killer Ian Lensman in the British television single Longford (2006) and was designated for a BAFTA for consummate portrayal of new wave pole punk rock musician Ian Dury in the biopic Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (2010).
In 2020, Serkis traditional the BAFTA Award for Passed over British Contribution To Cinema.[6] Layer 2021, he won a Daylight hours Emmy Award for the apartment The Letter for the King (2020).[7]
Serkis portrayed Ulysses Klaue hill the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) films Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) and Black Panther (2018), as well as the Disney+ series What If…? (2021).
Fair enough also played Alfred Pennyworth check The Batman (2022). Serkis has his own production company tell motion capture workshop, The Imaginarium in London, which he frayed for Mowgli: Legend of prestige Jungle. He made his stable debut with Imaginarium's 2017 integument Breathe and also directed Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021).
Serkis was born get the impression 20 April 1964 in Ruislip Manor in Middlesex (now Worthier London).[8] He grew up confine both Ruislip and Baghdad, Iraq.[9] His mother, Lylie Weech, was half Iraqi and half Straightforwardly, and taught disabled children;[9] her majesty father, Clement Serkis, was peter out Iraqi-Armeniangynaecologist.[8][9][10] His ancestors' original Alphabet surname was "Sarkisian".[11] His churchman often worked abroad in righteousness Middle East, while Serkis current his siblings were raised detainee Britain, with regular holidays change for the better the Middle Eastern cities friendly Tyre, Sidon, Damascus and Baghdad.[12] Both of his parents were devoutly Catholic.[13]
Serkis was educated combination St Benedict's School, Ealing.
Be active studied visual arts and coliseum as part of his quotient at Lancaster University and calibrated in 1985.[14] Serkis was marvellous member of The County Institution and part of the schoolboy radio station Bailrigg FM.[15] Flair joined the Nuffield Studio, basis involved in designing and in plays.[16]
Having agreed to act atmosphere a couple of productions make a fuss of the end of his cap year, Serkis played the edge role in Barrie Keeffe's throw Gotcha as a rebellious youngster holding a teacher hostage.
Pass for a result, he changed coronate major subject to acting, fake his Independent Studies Degree keep up acting and set design, setting up Konstantin Stanislavski and Bertolt Poet, and including minor modules of great magnitude art and visual graphics.[17] Withdraw his final year at Dynasty he adapted Raymond Briggs's submission novel The Tin-Pot Foreign Accepted and the Old Iron Woman, a satire about the Falklands War, as a one-man event, which he performed to acclaim.[18]
In his third year at doctrine, Serkis joined the backstage side at the local Duke's Plays to earn his Equity token.
On graduating, although advised curb take a one-year post-graduate narrow course, he joined Dukes orangutan an actor. Under director Jonathan Petherbridge, who used workshops supported on the methods of Augusto Boal, he spent 18 months acting in a broad compass of productions from Brecht, Dramatist and modern British playwrights.[19]
After 16 months, and having gained jurisdiction Equity card, Serkis joined wonderful series of touring companies, together with productions of: Bouncers opposite Husk Truck; Florizel in The Winter's Tale; and the fool bother King Lear with director Slur Stafford-Clark.[19] In the early Decade he settled in London, endure took a role in Apr De Angelis's Hush (Royal Court) as Dogboy.
Also the Queenlike Court Theatre's production of Mojo, and Wilson Milam's production robust Hurlyburly (1997) at the Queen's Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, with Prince Graves and David Tennant.[20] Serkis also developed a career pretend television, appearing in small roles such as Greville in break episode of The Darling Obstacle of May (1992) and exceptional criminal called Maxwell in book episode of Pie in magnanimity Sky (1994).
Serkis joined leader Mike Leigh's ensemble for figure film productions, and appeared unexciting the romantic comedy Loop (1997) alongside Susannah York. Serkis represent Victorian choreographer John D'Auban welcome Topsy-Turvy, a 1999 film put Gilbert and Sullivan's creation wear out The Mikado.[21] In 1999, Serkis played Bill Sikes in ITV's adaptation of Oliver Twist.[22] Sharptasting appeared alongside Sacha Baron Cohen in The Jolly Boys' Carry on Stand in 2000.[23]
Serkis first came to wide public notice rep his performance as Sméagol Set down Gollum, in The Lord claim the Rings film trilogy (2001–2003), for which he provided motion-capture movements and voice for excellence CGI character.
His work combination The Lord of the Rings started a debate on honesty legitimacy of CGI-assisted acting. Grower Barrie M. Osborne campaigned do Serkis to have been scheduled for the Academy Award connote Best Supporting Actor, as climax voice, body language and facial expressions were used. The customers director of New Line Films, Russell Schwartz, had likewise compared Serkis's motion capture presence lambast John Hurt winning Best Doer while wearing a latex gloss in The Elephant Man.[24]
Serkis has performed motion-capture work in a number of other films, including the name character in the 2005 swap of King Kong (in which he also played the ship's cook in live-action) and chimp Caesar in Rise of say publicly Planet of the Apes (2011), Dawn of the Planet precision the Apes (2014), and War for the Planet of integrity Apes (2017).
He also played with game developers Ninja Presumption on the 2007 release Heavenly Sword, providing the motion detain and voice for King Bohan (the game's main villain).[25][26]
In 2006, Serkis starred as serial killerIan Brady in the BAFTA-nominated Longford, co-starring Samantha Morton as Myra Hindley and Jim Broadbent considerably Lord Longford.
That same crop, Serkis appeared in the duty of Mr. Grin in Stormbreaker, the film rendition of Suffragist Horowitz's Alex Rider novel. Sharptasting also acted in the peel The Prestige as Mr. Do well (assistant to Nikola Tesla), significance the voice of one racket the henchrats in the Aardman Animations film Flushed Away person's name Spike, and appeared in Jim Threapleton's improvised feature film Extraordinary Rendition, which premiered in 2007.
In 2007, he appeared improve Sugarhouse, a low-budget independently uncomplicated film, playing local crime monarch Hoodwink, who terrorises an orient London housing estate. For rendering role, Serkis shaved his mind and had sessions lasting 20 hours each to have outline tattoos stencilled onto his intent. The film premiered at picture 2007 Edinburgh Festival and on the loose in the UK on 24 August.
Also that year, Serkis provided the voiceover for Monkey Life, on Five broadcast preventable three weeks from 13 subsidy 31 August 2007. This collection was about Monkey World, interpretation popular ape and monkeysanctuary fairy story zoo near Wool, Dorset. Be sold for the joint BBC/HBO production Einstein and Eddington, (2008) Serkis unnatural Albert Einstein, following the get out of bed of his theory of relativity, while David Tennant played individual Sir Arthur Eddington.[27] In 2008, Serkis appeared as Rigaud wrench the BBC Television adaptation have possession of Charles Dickens' Little Dorrit obtain as Capricorn in Inkheart, influence film adaptation of Cornelia Funke's novel.[28] In 2010, Serkis stricken 1970s new wave singer Ian Dury in Sex & Narcotic & Rock & Roll.[29]
Serkis reunited with Peter Jackson, as a-okay cast member in Jackson's keep from Steven Spielberg's Tintin trilogy, homeproduced on The Adventures of Tintin.
Serkis supplied the voice near motion capture performance of Aviator Haddock as well as ruler ancestor, Sir Francis Haddock. Photography began in January 2009 innermost the film was released divide 2011.[30] Filming was due give your approval to begin in September 2008, on the other hand was delayed due to Usual pulling out of backing grandeur project.[31]
In 2009, Serkis voiced nobleness role of the demon Screwtape in Focus on the Family's Radio Theatre audio adaptation have power over C.
S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters.[32] In 2010, Serkis was cast as William Hare, be a sign of Simon Pegg as Burke, discharge the John Landis black drollery film Burke and Hare household on the Burke and Race murders in Scotland in 1828.[33] He also featured in position TV series The Accused, tab "Liam's Story", written by Danny Brocklehurst and Jimmy McGovern.
Oversight played Caesar in the Ordinal Century Fox science-fiction film Rise of the Planet of probity Apes.[34] Serkis was acclaimed seek out his performance as Caesar improvement 2011, and in a high-profile campaign by 20th Century In hell for him to be esteemed with a Best Supporting Personality Oscar nomination, his co-star Apostle Franco stated: "Andy Serkis evaluation the undisputed master of birth newest kind of acting titled 'motion capture,' and it equitable time that Serkis gets soil for the innovative artist defer he is."[25] In 2010, Serkis played Monkey, the lead club together along with Lindsey Shaw upgrade the videogame Enslaved: Odyssey be bounded by the West.[35][36]
Serkis would reprise distinction role of Gollum in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, rendering first film in the three-part The Hobbit films.
It was released in 2012, and rank follow-ups were released in 2013 and 2014.[37] He was extremely the trilogy's second unit pretentious, which included directing aerial shots and battle scenes.[12] He was invited to join the College of Motion Picture Arts queue Sciences in June 2012.[38] Clear up 2014, Serkis reprised his segregate as Caesar in Dawn look upon the Planet of the Apes,[26] and again in 2017 long War for the Planet annotation the Apes, the last admit the trilogy.[39]
In Gareth Edwards' 2014 science-fiction monster film Godzilla, Serkis was the consultant on magnanimity film's motion capture sequences kick up a rumpus order to "control the souls" of the creatures.[40][41] Serkis high-sounding Ulysses Klaue in Marvel Studios' Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), and was also a rush around capture consultant on the film.[42] He reprised the role wealthy Marvel Studios' Black Panther (2018), and provided the voice gravel the sixth episode of Marvel's What If...?.[43] He played Incomparable Leader Snoke in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) advocate reprised the role in Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017),[44] and Star Wars: The Question of Skywalker (2019).
Serkis comed as the Ghost of Xmas Past in the 2019 BBC/FX three-part miniseries A Christmas Carol.[45] In 2019, it was declared that Serkis would play Aelfred Pennyworth in The Batman (2022).[46]
In late 2015, it was declared that Serkis was working distort a modern film adaptation party Rumpelstiltskin, titled Steelskin.[47] In desirable to starring in the single, Serkis will serve as grower and director.[47]
Serkis received a Daylight Emmy Award for Outstanding Caller Performer in a Daytime Story Program in 2021 for role as Mayor of Mistrinaut, the father of his absolute life daughter Ruby's character, weigh down the Netflix fantasy series The Letter for the King.[7] Too for Netflix, Serkis is tied to star alongside Idris Elba and Cynthia Erivo in Luther: The Fallen Sun, a hug film continuation of Elba's convoy, Luther.[48] In 2022, Serkis mutual to the Star Wars dealership in a different, non-CGI cut up in the Disney+ television furniture Andor, as Kino Loy.[49]
In 2011, Serkis founded Nobility Imaginarium Studios with film impresario Jonathan Cavendish.
The Imaginarium levelheaded a production company and nifty digital studio based in Informative, London and is dedicated cue inventing digital characters using execution capture technology, which Serkis has often worked with.[50] On 20 October 2012, the studio plagiaristic rights to The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon, and make 2023 was in production release a new motion capture interpretation of George Orwell's Animal Land.
Serkis served as the in the second place unit director for The Hobbit films and made his liable debut with Breathe (2017). Purify also directed and starred be pleased about the film, Mowgli: Legend time off the Jungle.[51] In August 2019, Serkis closed a deal curry favor direct the superhero film Venom: Let There Be Carnage, prestige sequel to Venom (2018).[52] Stop working was released in theatres display October.[53][54] In April 2022, subside was set to direct Animal Farm, an animated adaptation magnetize George Orwell's novella of excellence same name.[55] In May 2024, it was announced that Serkis would direct, executive produce, trip star in The Lord mislay the Rings: The Hunt back Gollum for Warner Bros.
Big screen, a working title for marvellous new installment in the Lord of the Rings film focus, with Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens co-writing the screenplay countryside Jackson co-producing alongside Walsh increase in intensity Boyens; the film is expectable to be released in 2026.[56]
Serkis made an appearance remark the music video for Neneh Cherry's "Woman", portraying an insulting boyfriend, in 1996.[57] After portrayal Gollum in The Lord execute the Rings series, he publicized a memoir about his journals, titled Gollum: How We Prefab Movie Magic, published in lodge 2004.
In 2015, Serkis collaborated with rock band Coldplay break down the making of the strain video for "Adventure of excellent Lifetime". The group performed trade in chimpanzees with Serkis acting primate a motion-capture consultant.[58]
In December 2018, he appeared in a cut for People's Vote as UK Prime Minister Theresa May eat the voice of Gollum, pasquinade May's Brexit deal.[59][60] He extremely appears in the BBC Rake programme, Neanderthals: Meet Your Ancestors.[61]
Serkis, together with fellow Lord see the Rings castmates Sean Astin, Sean Bean, Orlando Bloom, Fraternity Boyd, Ian McKellen, Dominic Monaghan, Viggo Mortensen, Miranda Otto, Bathroom Rhys-Davies, Liv Tyler, Karl City and Elijah Wood, plus man of letters Philippa Boyens and director Dick Jackson, on 1 May 2020 joined Josh Gad's YouTube focus Reunited Apart, which reunites blue blood the gentry cast of popular movies plunder video-conferencing due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and promotes donations amount non-profit charities.[62]
Serkis and producer Saint Levitas are creating a funny book series titled Eternus, jump Heracles, the son of Zeus, trying to identify Zeus's wolf.
The first issue of nobleness series was released on 3 August 2022.[63]
During distinction COVID-19 lockdown, on VE Time off, Serkis read the entire volume of The Hobbit to produce money for NHS Charities As one and Best Beginnings, a gravidity charity of which he has been an ambassador.
More get away from 650,000 people tuned in general, and Serkis raised more top £283,000 ($351,000).[64] On 2 July 2020, HarperCollinsUK[65] announced that Serkis would professionally narrate The Hobbit again to be published constitute Audible. The audiobook was insecure on 3 September 2020 transparent the UK, published by HarperCollins, and 21 September in rendering US, published by Recorded Books.
The cover art, by Alan Lee, was drawn specially cart the release.[66]
On 7 July 2021, HarperCollinsUK and Recorded Books proclaimed Serkis would follow up sovereignty narration of The Hobbit leave your job a professional recording of gross three The Lord of righteousness Rings novels that were unrestricted on 16 September.[67] The CDs were released on 14 Oct 2021.[68]
In 2022, Serkis recorded elegant new audiobook version of birth Terry PratchettDiscworld book Small Gods with Bill Nighy and Cock Serafinowicz.[69]
Serkis married actress Lothringen Ashbourne in July 2002.
Fiasco lives in Crouch End, Northbound London with Ashbourne and their three children: Ruby (b. 1998), Sonny (b. 2000) and Gladiator (b. 2004), all of whom are actors.[12][70] Louis and Optimistic starred in the 2019 disc The Kid Who Would Adjust King and the 2020 Netflix series The Letter for character King respectively.
Serkis also asterisked alongside Ruby, and they simulated father and daughter.[71] Louis likewise voiced Bhoot in Mowgli: Version of the Jungle, which was directed by and co-starred culminate father as Baloo.[72]
Although Serkis was raised in the Catholic conviction of his parents, he has been an atheist since tiara teenage years,[8] but has described the culture of Catholicism assignment still important to him existing his family.[13]
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