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Andy Serkis
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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Andy Serkis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Avengers: Age of Ultron2015as Ulysses KlaueOur takeUltron is frightening because his solution removes the very people it supposedly serves. Our reading is that the Avengers defeat him by accepting an obligation he cannot understand: someone must remain answerable to particular lives, even when saving those lives makes victory slower and messier. Vision provides the…
Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens2015as Supreme Leader SnokeOur takethe final movement separates stopping an immediate threat from finding a lasting answer. The pilots and ground team achieve something real. Rey’s journey to Luke then opens a different kind of need: the galaxy requires more than a successful strike. It needs people willing to take responsibility for what comes…
The Prestige2006as AlleyOur takethe decisive difference is not that Borden has a “better” secret. It is that he understands a trick must be lived before it can be performed. Angier wants the same result without accepting the same kind of surrender, so he turns science into an industrialized act of murder. The film’s cruelest irony is that both…
Young Washington2026as General Edward BraddockOur takeYoung Washington works best when it separates the future legend from the young man still making mistakes. Its ending is not really about proving that Washington was destined for greatness. It is about showing how repeated failure forces him to redefine what greatness should mean.
Black Panther2018as Ulysses KlaueOur takeKillmonger loses the throne because he converts abandonment into domination. T'Challa earns the future because he lets the same history change him without letting it dictate whom he must become.Profile and filmography data from TMDB. This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.