Andy Serkis

At 59 years old, Andy Serkis has this physical status:

Andrew Clement Serkis (born 20 April 1964) is an English actor and film producer.

In Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin (2011) and Supreme Leader Snoke in the first two Star Wars sequel trilogy films, The Force Awakens (2015) and The Last Jedi (2017), he is best known for his performance capture roles composing motion capture acting, animation, and voice work for such computer-generated characters as Gollum in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001-2005), and Supreme Leader Snoke in the eponymous 2005 film The Adventures of Tintin

In his self-directed film, Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle, he portrayed Baloo. Serkis' film work in motion capture has been highly lauded.

For his role in motion-capture, he has been given an Empire Award and two Saturn Awards.

In the British television film Longford (2006), he received a Golden Globe nomination for his portrayal of serial killer Ian Brady, and he was nominated for a BAFTA for his portrayal of new wave and punk rock musician Ian Dury in the biopic Sex & Rock & Roll (2010). In the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) and Black Panther (2018), Serkis portrayed Ulysses Klaue.

Serkis is the owner of The Imaginarium Studios in London, which he used for Mowgli.

Breathe, Imaginarium's 2017 film, made him his directorial debut.

Early life

Serkis was born in Ruislip Manor, Middlesex, on April 20th, 1964 (now within Greater London). He grew up in a mixture of Ruislip and Baghdad, Iraq. Lylie Weech, a boy with disabilities, taught disabled children; his father, Clement Serkis, was an Iraqi-Armenian gynaecologist. His parents are Catholic. His ancestors' original surname, "Sarkisian," was a misnomer. His father worked in the Middle East for decades, while Serkis and his siblings were born in the United Kingdom, with regular holidays in Tyre, Sidon, Damascus, and Baghdad.

Serkis was educated at St Benedict's School, Ealing, England. He studied visual arts and theatre as part of his Lancaster University degree and graduated in 1985. Serkis was a graduate of The County College and a member of the student radio station Bailrigg FM. He joined Nuffield Studio, becoming involved in designing and producing plays.

Serkis appeared in a few productions toward the end of his first year as a tumultuous teen holding a teacher hostage in Barrie Keeffe's Gotcha. As a result, he changed his major subject to acting, designing his Independent Studies Degree around acting and set design, investigating Konstantin Stanislavski and Bertolt Brecht, as well as minor modules in art and graphic design. He converted Raymond Briggs' graphic novel The Tin-Pot Foreign General and the Old Iron Woman, a satire of the Falklands War, as a one-man show, which he performed to acclaim in his last year in Lancaster.

Personal life

Serkis was born to Catholic parents, and although he has been an atheist since his teenage years, he is "drawn to the karmic potentials of energy transference," specifically "the belief that your energy lives on after you."

Lorraine Ashbourne, a married Serkis girl, married British actress Lorraine Ashbourne in July 2002. Ruby (b. ), who lives in Crouch End, North London, with Ashbourne and their three children. Sonny (b. 1998). Louis and Michael (b.) (2000) and Louis (b. All of whom are actors are actors in 2004. Both Louis and Ruby appeared in the 2019 film The Kid Who Would Be King and the Netflix series The Letter from the King respectively. Serkis also performed alongside Ruby, and the two of them also performed father and daughter. In Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle, Louis also starred Bhoot, which was directed by and co-starred his father.

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Career

Serkis earned his Equity card in his third year at a university. On graduating, he joined Dukes as an actor, although being advised not to take a one-year post-graduate acting course. Jonathan Petherbridge, a director who conducted workshops based on Augusto Boal's methods, spent 18 months in a variety of Brecht, Shakespeare, and modern British playwrights.

Serkis joined a string of touring companies after 16 months, including: Bouncers opposite Hull Truck, Florizel in The Winter's Tale; and King Lear with director Max Stafford-Clark. He landed in London in the early 1990s and appeared as Dogboy in April de Angelis' Hush (Royal Court). With Rupert Graves and David Tennant, the Royal Court Theatre's production of Mojo and Wilson Milam's production of Hurlyburly (1997) on Shaftesbury Avenue, Shaftesbury Avenue, included Mojo and Wilson Milam's production of Hurlyburly. Serkis also worked in television, appearing in small roles such as Greville in an episode of The Darling Buds of May (1992). Serkis appeared in the romantic comedy Loop (1997) with Susannah York and Mike Leigh's ensemble for two film projects. In Topsy-Turvy, a 1999 film about Gilbert and Sullivan's creation of The Mikado, Serkis portrayed Victorian choreograper John D'Auban. Serkis appeared in ITV's adaptation of Oliver Twist in 1999. In 2000, he appeared alongside Sacha Baron Cohen in The Jolly Boys' Last Stand.

Serkis first came to national prominence as Sméagol/Gollum in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001-2003), in which he provided motion capture movements and voice for the CGI characters. The Lord of the Rings' work sparked a discussion about the legitimacy of CGI-assisted acting. Serkis may have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, according to some commentators, since his voice, body language, and facial expressions were used.

Serkis has performed motion capture in several films, including the title character in the 2005 version of King Kong (in which he also appeared in live action) and War for the Planet of the Apes (2018). On the 2007 release of Heavenly Sword, he worked with game developers Ninja Theory, providing the motion capture and voice for King Bohan (the game's key villain).

Serkis appeared in BAFTA-nominated Longford's 2006 serial killer Ian Brady, co-starring Samantha Morton as Myra Hindley and Jim Broadbent as Lord Longford. Serkis appeared in Mr. Grin in Anthony Horowitz's film adaptation of Stormbreaker, which was released in the same year. Mr. Alley (assistant to Nikola Tesla) appeared in the film The Prestige as the voice of one of the henchrats in Aardman Animations' film Flushed Away, named Spike), and he appeared in Jim Threapleton's improvised feature film Extraordinary Rendition, which premiered in 2007. In 2007, he appeared in Sugarhouse, a low-budget independent film starring local crime lord Hoodwink, who terrorizes an east London housing estate. Serkis shaved his head and held 20-hour sessions apiece to get temporary tattoos stencilled onto his body, which was inappropriate for the role. The film premiered at the 2007 Edinburgh Festival and was released in the United Kingdom on August 24th. Serkis sang of Monkey Life on three weeks from 13 to 31 August 2007. This series was about Monkey World, the famous ape and monkey sanctuary, as well as zoo near Wool, Dorset. Serkis played Albert Einstein in the joint BBC/HBO production, while David Tennant played scientist Sir Arthur Eddington. Serkis appeared in Inkheart, Charles Dickens' BBC Television adaptation of Little Dorrit and as Capricorn in Inkheart, the film adaptation of Cornelia Funke's novel, in 2008. Serkis appeared in Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll's 1970s new wave singer Ian Dury.

Serkis reunited with Peter Jackson as a cast member of Jackson's and Steven Spielberg's Tintin trilogy, based on The Adventures of Tintin. Serkis provided Captain Haddock's voice and motion capture performance as well as his ancestor, Sir Francis Haddock. Filming began in January 2009 and was released in 2011. Filming was supposed to start in September 2008, but it was postponed due to Universal's withdrawal from funding the program.

Serkis discussed the role of the demon Screwtape in this week's Family's Radio Theatre audio version of C. S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters by Serkis in 2009. In the John Landis black comedy film Burke and Hare, based on the Burke and Hare murders in Scotland in 1828, Serkis was cast as William Hare, with Simon Pegg as Burke. In "Liam's Story," written by Danny Brocklehurst and Jimmy McGovern, he appeared in the TV series The Accused. In the 20th century Fox science fiction film Rise of the Apes, Caesar played Caesar. Serkis was praised for his work as Caesar in 2011 and in a high-profile campaign by 20th Century Fox for him to be recognized with a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination,' And Serkis said: "Andy Serkis is the undisputed master of the new art form known as 'performance capture,' and it's time that Serkis gets credit for the innovative artist that he is." Serkis portrayed Monkey, the lead character in the 2010 videogame Enslaved: Odyssey to the West alongside Lindsay Shaw.

Serkis would reprise the role of Gollum in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the first film in the three-part The Hobbit series, which was released in January 2011. It was launched in 2012 and a sequel was launched in 2013 and 2014. He was also the trilogy's second unit manager, which involved shooting aerial photographs and combat scenes. In June 2012, he and 175 others were invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Serkis reprised his role as Caesar in Dawn of the Apes and then for War for the Planet of the Apes in 2017, the last of the trilogy.

Serkis was the advisor on the film's motion capture sequences in order to "control the souls" of the creatures in Gareth Edwards' 2014 science-fiction monster film Godzilla. Serkis appeared in Marvel Studios' Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) as Ulysses Klaue, and he was also a motion capture specialist on the film. In the sixth episode of Marvel Studios' What If...?, he reprised his role in Marvel Studios' Black Panther (2018) and acted as the lead. Snoke appeared in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) and reprised his role in Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019). Serkis appeared in the three-part miniseries A Christmas Carol by BBC/FX. Serkis would play Alfred Pennyworth in The Batman (2022), according to an earlier version.

Serkis was revealed to be working on a modern film version of Rumpelstiltskin, dubbed Steelskin, in late 2015. Serkis will appear in the film as producer and director in addition to acting in it.

In 2021, he received a Daytime Emmy Award for his role as Mayor of Mistrinaut, the father of his real life daughter Ruby's character in the Netflix fantasy series The Letter to the King.

Serkis will appear alongside Idris Elba and Cynthia Erivo in a new TV movie of Elba's series Luther for Netflix. In November, filming will begin.

Serkis and film director Jonathan Cavendish formed The Imaginarium Studios in 2011. The Imaginarium is a production firm and creative digital studio based in Ealing, London, dedicated to the creation of believable, emotionally engaging digital characters from Serkis' unique Performance Capture technology. The studio purchased the rights to The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon and a new motion capture version of Animal Farm on October 20, 2012, which Serkis has announced is his next film he would be directing.

Serkis appeared in two unit films for The Hobbit films and made his directorial debut with Breathe. He also wrote and appeared in the film Mowgli: The Legend of the Jungle. Serkis produced Venom, a sequel to Venom that was called Let There Be Carnage in 2021. It was launched in the United States on October 1st and the UK on October 15th. He was supposed to direct Animal Farm, an animated adaptation of George Orwell's book of the same name in 2022.

Serkis appeared in the music video for Neneh Cherry's "Woman" depicting an intimate boyfriend in 1996. He wrote a book entitled Gollum: How We Made Movie Magic, which appeared in The Lord of the Rings series, which was published in late 2004. He was portraying Gollum in The Lord of the Rings series. Serkis appeared in "Adventure of a Lifetime"'s music video in 2015. Serkis served as a performance capture consultant, and the company thrived as a chimpanzee.

He appeared in a video for People's Vote as UK Prime Minister Theresa May, ridiculing May's Brexit contract. Neanderthals: Meet Your Ancestors, he appears on BBC Earth's programme.

Serkis, Michael Baker, Sean Bean, Billy Boyd, Ian McKellen, Dominic Monaghan, Dominic Monaghan, Viggo Mortensen, John Rhys-Davies, Matthew Morris, Jr., and actor Peter Jackson appeared on YouTube on May 1stin, while fellow Lord of the Rings cast member Sean Astin, Sean Bean, Orlando Bloom, Billy Boyd, Matthew Whittin, Christophe Brown, Douglas Burke, Miranda Otto, Benjamin Matthew

Serkis read the whole book of The Hobbit on VE Day to raise funds for NHS Charities Together and Best Beginnings, a pregnancy charity of which he has been ambassador, during the COVID-19 lockdown. More than 650,000 people watched around the world, while Serkis earned more than £283,000 ($351,000). HarperCollinsUK revealed on July 2nd that Serkis would narrate The Hobbit again, this time for Audible. The audiobook was published in the United Kingdom by HarperCollins and published in the United States on September 3rd, 2020, and in the United States by Recorded Books on September 21. Alan Lee's cover art was created specifically for the occasion.

HarperCollinsUK and Recorded Books announced that Serkis would continue his book The Hobbit after being published on July 7, 2021. On October 14, 2021, the CDs were released.

In 2022, Serkis and producer Andrew Levitas will begin a seven-part comic book series titled Eternus about Heracles, Zeus' uncle, who is trying to identify Zeus' killer. Thunder Books will publish the book.

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